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MP tells public: stop e-mailing me!
Posted by Max Naylor on Monday, June 14, 2010
Ólína Þorvarðardóttir, MP for the Social Democratic Alliance, has requested the public to stop sending her e-mails regarding the bill for the controversial Water Act, which has yet to be passed by the Alþingi. The act would give landowners the right to control the water underneath their land, including drinking water, essentially privatising the water industry. Ólína claims that her inbox is full up with e-mails challenging the act.

The Water Act, which was agreed to in 2006, is scheduled to come into effect on 1st July. The current bill proposes scrapping the act. Ólína says in her web column that pressure on MPs to scrap the act  is currently “raining over” parliament. She had decided to answer the messages, but soon gave up.

“It should suffice to say it once for everyone here on my website: will all communities stop sending me e-mails about this. I need to be able to read the messages which arrive in my inbox, but at the moment they are drowning in these outrageous challenges concerning the Water Act,” she said on her blog.

Ólína goes on to say that she would like to see the Water Act 2006 nullified before parliament breaks up for summer, and that she doesn’t need any reminders about the urgency of the situation.

Source: visir.is

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