![]() ![]() Hundreds of people, relative to Iceland’s population, is no small number. The group has regularly brought hundreds of people out to block the bulldozers. The project has been halted until the Supreme Court of Iceland rules on a case brought by a group known as Friends of Lava, who cite both the environmental and the cultural impact - including the impact on elves - of the road project. They fear disturbing elf habitat and claim the area is particularly important because it contains an elf church. They have magical powers, but they can't get across a highway: Elf advocates have joined forces with environmentalists to urge the Icelandic Road and Coastal Commission and local authorities to abandon a highway project building a direct route from the Alftanes peninsula, where the president has a home, to the Reykjavik suburb of Gardabaer. ![]()
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