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Valgerður Sverrisdóttir

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Geophysicist Grímur Björnsson revealed on the television news programme Kastljós that a report he had prepared, criticizing the placement of the Kárahnjúkavirkjun dam, had been stamped as confidential by his superior at the time. Minister of Industry Valgerður Sverrisdóttir had subsequently failed to
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In 2006, Árni Finnsson, chairman of the Iceland Nature Conservation Association, accused Valgerður Sverrisdóttir of corruption for failing to reveal details of a report showing that the site of the Kárahnjúkavirkjun dam had
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Valgerður Sverrisdóttir rejected all accusations, claiming the controversy was a last-ditch effort by the opposition to delay the flooding of the
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from 15 June 2006 to 24 May 2007. She has been a member of the Progressive Party's central committee since 1983.
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constituency starting in 1987 and was Chairman of the Progressive Party parliamentary group from 1995 to 1999,
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reveal the details of the report to parliament, as she was obliged to do.
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in the earth while she was Minister of Industry and Commerce.
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Index

Icelandic name
patronymic
family name

Minister for Foreign Affairs
Geir Haarde
Geir Haarde
Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir
Minister of Industry and Commerce
Davíð Oddsson
Halldór Ásgrímsson
Finnur Ingólfsson
Jón Sigurðsson
Grýtubakkahreppur
Progressive Party
Icelandic
Althing
Progressive Party
Northeast
Minister of Industry and Commerce
Minister for Nordic Cooperation
Minister for Foreign Affairs
active faults
Hálslón Reservoir
CV at Althing website
List of former foreign ministers of Iceland
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Valgerður Sverrisdóttir
Finnur Ingólfsson

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