We helped make this map because, as more people experience the Hvalá area firsthand, the more we anticipate awareness and a desire to protect the area to expand.
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The road building, dams and plans for mining in the area have all but put on hold.
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We support a two-prong approach to reaching the goal of establishing this area as a protected wilderness: raising awareness on the public-facing side of the project and pursuing legal action behind the scenes. Both are ongoing.
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Iceland’s vast remote wilderness is one of the largest in Europe. This rugged terrain is the proposed location for the building of several hydropower plants and associated roads and power lines, which would result in far-reaching wilderness destruction.
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Protection of wilderness and completion of the hydroelectric power project cannot coincide. While hydropower may bring short-term gain for local residents in the form of jobs, it will permanently harm the environment and eliminate the long-term prospects for more sustainable forms of economic development.
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When we learned of the proposed dams in the Westfjords, we had to ask ourselves how can a project like this still be under consideration in 2019, after all we’ve learned.
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