Iceland News

Your weekly roundup of the best blog posts and news articles about Iceland from across the globe.

Th!nk about it: European blogging competition
The battle for control of Iceland’s geothermal energy fields
“It was the first privatization of an energy company in Iceland, and was clearly engineered to transfer the company into the hands of people who had a very clear view of the fact that green energy would – and will – become ever-more valuable in the future.”

Reykjavik Grapevine
Poll: EU Referendum Would Fail if Voted On Today
“According to a poll conducted by Bífröst University for Stöð 2 News, most Icelanders would reject a vote to join the EU if a referendum were held today.”

News Frettir
Russian tapping buoy drifted ashore
“The bomb squad of the national coast guards was called out yesterday to take a look at a buoy which drifted ashore in Skardsfjara close to Kirkjubaejarklaustur.”

Your weekly roundup of the best blog posts and news articles about Iceland from across the globe.

Reykjavik Grapevine
***STAR READ*** Blame Canada?
“Onlookers shouted and boo-ed as city council progressed toward approving the 32.32% sale of Iceland’s HS Orka to the Canadian-cum-Swedish firm Magma Energy Corp.”

BBC News Online
No more Happy Meals for Iceland
“Iceland is to lose its three McDonalds outlets after the country’s financial crisis made operating there too expensive. The restaurants import almost all of their ingredients, but the collapse of the Icelandic krona has almost doubled import costs.”

Iceland Weather Report Forums
Silver Lining Charity
“An Icelandic couple based in Los Angeles has created a non-profit organization to raise funds for agencies that help those in need in Iceland.”

Another weekly roundup of blog posts and news articles that were of highlight this week about Iceland.

Web Site: Statistics Iceland
Sale of sound recordings 1991-2008
“Sale of sound recordings declined by 31 per cent between the years 2008 and 2007 as counted in numbers of sold copies. In last year roughly 446,000 copies of domestic and foreign sound recordings were sold at a distributor level, or 200,000 fewer copies than in the previous year.”

Blog: Iceland Review
Children in Iceland Feel Better After Crisis Hit
“Kids spend more time with their parents and parents provide their children and teenagers with more support and pay closer attention to what they’re doing,” one of the report’s authors, Álfgeir Logi Kristjánsson, told Fréttabladid.”

Blog: Rhiannon and Sam
Living in Iceland
“The English media would lead you to believe that people are moaning about the ´crisis´ all the time but they are not. Everyone is just getting on with it.”

Book: Meltdown Iceland, By Roger Boyes
Reviewed by the Independent’s Boyd Tonkin
“Boyes’s utterly gripping account of how Iceland swiftly became the “microcosm” of a planetary market panic yields as crisp and bleak a saga of the downside of globalisation as you will ever read.”

Forum: Iceland Weather Report Forums
Ideas for a traditional food for an Icelandic meetup
“Here is the English language website (and blog) for Icelandic cuisine: http://icecook.blogspot.com – maybe something will catch your eye.”

It has been Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada, so I’m a little late posting the round up. Anyhow, here’s a selection that caught my eye.

Blog: Rhiannon & Sam by Rhiannon
Yes Officer, I have a licence
Getting in a car accident in Iceland.

Newspapers: The Reykjavik Grapevine by Paul Nikolov
Transparency International Ranks Iceland 7th Least Corrupt Country; Methodology Dodgey
The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries on their level of corruption based on how they rate under a series of assessments conducted by other organizations.

Blog: The Iceland Weather Report by Alda Sigmundsdóttir
Are the UK and Holland standing in the way of Iceland seeking its legal rights?A couple of weeks ago I mentioned in a blog post that our [then-] minister for health Ögmundur Jónasson had resigned over the Icesave issue. Yesterday we finally got the full details of why exactly he resigned.

Blog: These are the best days of our lives by Heather Ezell
Day Off
Taking a break.

This is the first weekly roundup of blog posts and news articles that were of highlight this week about Iceland.

Blog: These are the best days of our lives by Heather Ezell
Road Trips…
An American woman playing professional basketball in Iceland goes on a road trip.

Blog: Icelandish by Jessica
It’s Official
Everyone is getting pregnant in Iceland according to one blogger.

Blog:The Iceland Weather Report by Alda Sigmundsdóttir
In Ferrara
The leading Icelandic blogger, Sigmundsdóttir, is in Italy this week for Festival Internazionale.

Forum: Iceland Weather Report Forums
Weather report from window
IWR forum user Alexander E. posts photographs of Iceland’s weather.

Newspaper: The Times (London) by Roger Boyes
Iceland exposed: How a whole nation went down the toilet
A year on The Times looks at what happened in Iceland. Timeline included. Also see comments section.