Icelandic minister rejects Venaani’s demands on Samherji renewable energy funding

Hertta-Maria Amutenja The Icelandic Minister of Environment, Energy, and Climate, Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, has decisively turned down the proposal made by McHenry Venaani, the leader of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), urging the Icelandic government to reconsider its plan to provide a 100 million Icelandic krona renewable energy grant to the Samherji Company. Venaani had written to Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir earlier this month, expressing concerns about the renewable energy grant offered to Samherji, a company allegedly involved in corrupt activities in Namibia’s fishing industry, now known as the fishrot scandal. In response, Thórdarson emphasized that Samherji’s grant application…