[Bep] Lots of old Icelandic music newspaper clips!

[JKN Trimmed]

Lots of interesting clips and photographs! Many thanks to Wim Van Hooste for all his efforts!

http://icelandicmusicmuseum.blogspot.com/

Please scroll down the page in order to see the links to all the posts.

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[CHARLES K WATKINS]

Thanks for sharing. A few of us still monitor BEP and appreciate the info.

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Lots of interesting clips and photographs! Many thanks to Wim Van Hooste for all his efforts!

http://icelandicmusicmuseum.blogspot.com/<http://icelandicmusicmuseum.blogspot.com/>

Please scroll down the page in order to see the links to all the posts.

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[Bjørn Nake]

Hi,

Thank you very much. Always a pleasure to hear from BEP members.

Cheers
Bjørn

[Wayne Pyrah]

Yes im still here too :)
Thanks for the info!

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Subject: [Bep] Lots of old Icelandic music newspaper clips!

Lots of interesting clips and photographs! Many thanks to Wim Van Hooste for all his efforts!

http://icelandicmusicmuseum.blogspot.com/<http://icelandicmusicmuseum.blogspot.com/>

Please scroll down the page in order to see the links to all the posts.

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[Franz Indra]

Same goes for me...
Thanks for the link and the site!

Bye
Franz

[Nathan]

In case it hasn't hit the local papers...since a Canadian company is involved it will likely be in all the Canadian newspapers....

http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Bjork+singing+fight+energy+firm+takeover/4073656/story.html

Bjork singing to fight energy firm's takeover
By Rebecc A Lindell, Postmedia News January 7, 2011

Icelandic superstar Bjork can sing until she's blue in the face, but a Canadian company won't be surrendering its stake in an Icelandic energy firm.
The singer is hosting a karaoke marathon this week in a bid to promote her campaign to end foreign ownership of natural resources in Iceland. Bjork is collecting signatures for a petition calling for a referendum on the issue.
"The fight to keep it in the hands of the Icelandic people is not over," she told Agence France-Presse on Thursday.
That view isn't shared by Canada's Magma Energy Corp., which became the main target of Bjork's campaign after it moved to take over HS Orka. Magma said in May it was going to increase its stake from 43 per cent to 98.5 per cent in HS Orka -- which produces nine per cent of Iceland's electricity -- in what would be the largest foreign investment in Iceland since the country's economy all but collapsed at the end of 2008.
Magma Energy declined to comment on Bjork's campaign, but the company's vice-president of corporate relations, Alison Thompson, told Postmedia News the deal was complete, approved by the government of Iceland and would not be reversed.
She added the company has not faced any resistance in other countries where it operates, including the United States, Chile and Peru.
The transaction had received regulatory approval in Iceland but a committee appointed by the government to examine the deal has not yet presented its findings.
"It is not a lost cause," Bjork told AFP.
The fight is just the latest in an ongoing battle in Iceland over the control of natural resources, says Birna Bjarnadottir, chairwoman of Icelandic studies at the University of Manitoba.
"Bjork is not alone in viewing what some people bluntly term foreign exploitation of this country's natural resources as something we have to be extremely careful about," she told Postmedia News.
Bjarnadottir said that Iceland has a fragile environment and people are realizing it may be even more fragile since the economic collapse.
"The temptation is to think that foreign investors may make things better. That temptation is possibly greater now than ever," she said.
As for Canadian ownership specifically, Bjarnadottir said Iceland's relationship with Canada is "as good as it gets" and the company would have seen resistance regardless of where it was from.
The singer's marathon was set to run Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

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