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Look inside for your free copy of Grapevine Airwaves Mini! Featuring comprehensive festival coverage, tips and trix from the stars, reviews, interviews and the chance to win the ultimate Airwaves experience! Photo: Jói Kjartans YOUR FREE COPY THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIFE, TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT IN ICELAND Issue 16 – October 9 - November 5 – 2009 + COMPLETE CITY LISTINGS - INSIDE! www.grapevine.is EVERYTHING MUST GO! 7.699$ 9. 699$ ENERGY OPPORTUNITY #1 GREAT FOR HEAVY INDUSTRY! CAPACITY - 690 MW - Great expansion potential Max flow - 144 m3/s Avg flow - 110 m3/s Energy production - 4.600 Gigawatt hours/year Average inflow - 31 m3/s In the midst of a harsh economic recession, Icelanders have started selling off their valuable energy resources to international corporations at KREPPA-rates. Grapevine's Catharine Fulton investigates the sale of HS Orka to Canada's Magma Energy, how the deal went down and if it is an indication of what's to come. PG. 12. The Reykjavík Grapevine Issue 16 — 2009 2 Editorial | Haukur S Magnússon Look inside for your free copy of Grapevine Airwaves Mini! Featuring comprehensive festival coverage, tips and trix from the stars, reviews, interviews and the chance to win the ultimate Airwaves experience! Photo: Jói Kjartans Editorial Interns: YOUR FREE COPY THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIFE, TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT IN ICELAND Issue 16 – October 9 - November 5 – 2009 + COMPLETE CITY LISTINGS - INSIDE! www.grapevine.is Rebecca Louder / [email protected] EVERYTHING MUST GO! 7.699$ Louise Petersson / [email protected] Haukur’s 16th Editorial 9. 699$ Michael Vladimar Zelenko / Just Haukur rambling, really [email protected] ENERGY OPPORTUNITY #1 GREAT FOR HEAVY INDUSTRY! CAPACITY - 690 MW - Great expansion potential Max flow - 144 m3/s Avg flow - 110 m3/s I’m back. I wrestled the reigns away from designer extraordinaire, Jói – these people all need of an instant cash injection – that just Energy production - 4.600 Gigawatt hours/year Average inflow - 31 m3/s Davíð Oddsson. Even though I was excited continually break their backs (or allow me to doesn’t sound like a very smart idea. Like a Food Editor: about some of his new editorial policy break them) and bust their asses just so you downtrodden crack-addict pawning his TV. In the midst of a harsh economic recession, Icelanders have started selling off their valuable energy resources to international corporations at KREPPA-rates. Grapevine's Catharine Fulton investigates the sale of HS Orka to Canada's Sari Peltonen (expanding the poetry section, more original can gain some enjoyment from this paper. I Anyway, no matter what your opinion on Magma Energy, how the deal went down and if it is an indication of what's to come. PG. 12. fiction), it still came down to the fact that I hope you’re happy. At least I am. And proud these issues will be, I dare you to have one. On-line News Editor Cover Photo: kind of like this job. to get to work with all these fine people). That is important, as this is an extremely Paul Nikolov Hörður Sveinsson Also, employment in the field of Now. Here are two points: important matter. Possibly one of the most [email protected] On Cover: publishing is hard to come by these days, 1) Read Catharine Fulton’s eye-opening important we as a nation will be confronted Óttar Proppé of Dr. Spock Art Director: especially jobs that don’t entail your owner feature on the privatization and subsequent with in the next decades. We cannot afford to Art Direction: Hörður Kristbjörnsson spying on you and reading your e-mail and sale of HS Orka. To me, this is some scary, be lazy here. We just can’t. Jói Kjartans stuff. So I took it back. Yay, me. eyebrow-raising stuff. 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Go out Julia Staples / juliastaples.com whole extra paper inside, The Grapevine past), this is still a matter of grave importance early, stay out late, don’t get too drunk and [email protected] Published by Fröken ehf. Airwaves Mini, where you can read up on that should be discussed and debated heavily respect your elders. Sales Director: Member of the Icelandic Travel Industry your Iceland Airwaves bands and get some before any course of action is taken. I ALSO HAPPEN TO BE A MEMBER OF A Aðalsteinn Jörundsson Association - www.saf.is good advice on how to conduct your festival We just effectively sold off exclusive BAND THAT’S PLAYING AT AIRWAVES [email protected] in an optimal manner. It’s loaded with stuff. rights to all of Reykjanes’ harnessable AND YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY CHECK Guðmundur Rúnar Svansson Editorial: [email protected] (Sidenote: I am in awe of the folks that energy for the next 130 years. 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