Bjork Wants Iceland To Go Green.

29-10-2008 08:53

Bjork Wants Iceland To Go Green.... Icelandic pop star Bjork has a plan to rescue her country's ailing economy, and has urged the government to favour local eco-friendly businesses over polluting foreign corporations.The nation has been hit hard by the global economic downturn, and its most famous 'daughter' wants authorities to use the financial slump as an opportunity to clean up the environment.She is particularly angry about plans to build two huge aluminium smelters in Iceland, insisting authorities should be promoting greener fuel sources. Bjork writes in a newspaper article, "A lot of Icelanders are against the building of these smelters. They would rather continue to develop smaller companies that they own themselves and keep the money they earn."Usually I don't notice politics. I live happily in the land of music-making.But I got caught up in it because politicians seem bent on ruining Iceland's natural environment."The smelters would need energy from a handful of new geothermal power plants and the building of dams that would damage pristine wilderness, hot springs and lava fields.