Bjork's Starving

Central Coast Herald

Monday October 21, 2002

according to Linda Barnier & Michael Gadd

THE mother of Icelandic pop queen Bjork is in the midst of a hunger strike in a bid to persuade the world's largest aluminum producer, Alcoa, to pull out of a project in the Icelandic highlands.

Hildur Runa Hauksdottir, who helped Bjork produce her first record at age 11, said she had plenty of public support.

Environmentalists say the smelter and accompanying power plant will ruin the wilderness area above Vatnajokull, Europe's largest glacier, in east Iceland.

© 2002 Central Coast Herald

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