| Notes | '\"Iceland’s biggest and newest aluminium smelter, Alcoa Fjardaal, pumped out its first hot metal at the weekend, riling critics who fear it will damage the environment. Author Andri Snaer Magnason said the construction of smelters like Alcoa’s, and the geothermal and hydroelectric plants that power them, has created a “heroin economy”.\n“For this company, (we are) diverting the whole ecosystem of the east,” he said. “The Icelandic government is taking a billion-dollar loan to raise the dam to supply power to Alcoa that is sold at a very low price.” (Edmonds, 2007)\n - vanessadiehl'
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