Even the production of renewable energy often requires the destruction of natural habitats; even "green" energy has its dark sides, as demonstrated by this documentary film about the largest European dam, brought into service in 2007 in Iceland. In 2006 the last US military base was closed in Iceland, costing 2000 people their jobs. To "compensate", the government decided to site an aluminium plant by US multi-national Alcoa. This, however, required cheap energy: The construction of the Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Project was the consequence, situated one hundred kilometres away in the east of Iceland, in the midst of untouched wilderness. The film gives an impressive account of how a major industrial corporation "takes over" a community and an entire landscape step by step, often resorting to questionable means. And the purpose at issue – economic growth – becomes equally questionable. The world market price for aluminium has been falling since the financial crisis. Yet Icelandic politicians are already planning the next aluminium plants.