Protests at Eyjabakkar

Protestors have just closed the road to Ufsarstífla dam at the Eyjabakka area, east central Iceland. Police has just arrived at the area. A large number of both Icelanders and foreign nationals are protesting the iminent flooding of the area due to the dam.

Protestors say that they are raising public awareness of the fact that the National Power Company are working at the Eyjabakka area in spite of 45 thousand Icelanders signing a petition to the Government to make the area a protected natural site. The Eyjabakkar area is the habitat of reindeer, pink-footed geese and a wide variety of other birds.