“The tourism industry will never agree to Landsnet’s plans to erect electricity transmission lines across the central highlands,” said the Icelandic Travel Industry Association’s managing director, Grímur Sæmundsen, during Landsnet’s annual spring seminar that dealt with the future of Iceland’s electricity transmission system.
Read more: Majority of Icelanders want the central highlands to become a national park
Landsnet, a company that owns and operates all major electricity transmission lines in Iceland, intends to better the transmission system by either erecting high voltage power lines along Sprengisandur in the central highlands, an area which, until now, remains largely untouched, or by strengthening present power grids along Route 1.
Guðmundur Ingi Ásmundsson, Landsnet’s CEO told Vísir that by rejecting one option the Icelandic Travel Industry Association is choosing the other.
The Association, on the other hand, says it is time that the government begins to value the importance of Iceland’s unspoilt nature on tourism. The tourism sector became Iceland’s largest export industry in 2013, surpassing the fishing industry.
As Iceland Insider reported in March a number of organisations have created a petition to try and persuade the Icelandic government to save the highlands from intended developments.
“The tourism industry will never agree to Landsnet’s plans to erect electricity transmission lines across the central highlands,” said the Icelandic Travel Industry Association’s managing director, Grímur Sæmundsen, during Landsnet’s annual spring seminar that dealt with the future of Iceland’s electricity transmission system.
Read more: Majority of Icelanders want the central highlands to become a national park
Landsnet, a company that owns and operates all major electricity transmission lines in Iceland, intends to better the transmission system by either erecting high voltage power lines along Sprengisandur in the central highlands, an area which, until now, remains largely untouched, or by strengthening present power grids along Route 1.
Guðmundur Ingi Ásmundsson, Landsnet’s CEO told Vísir that by rejecting one option the Icelandic Travel Industry Association is choosing the other.
The Association, on the other hand, says it is time that the government begins to value the importance of Iceland’s unspoilt nature on tourism. The tourism sector became Iceland’s largest export industry in 2013, surpassing the fishing industry.
As Iceland Insider reported in March a number of organisations have created a petition to try and persuade the Icelandic government to save the highlands from intended developments.
