By Wael Mahdi – Jul 4, 2011. Tunisia plans to invest $2 billion in solar projects to generate power for Europe, the minister of planning and international cooperation said. Tunisia is building 40 solar projects with foreign partners from Germany and other countries, and they will start providing electricity to Europe by 2016, Tunisia’s Abdelhamid […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 07/08/2011 05:58 Environmental Protection Ministry says insufficient cleanup cited for stoppage after one of the worst disasters this year. The Environmental Protection Ministry ordered the Eilat- Ashkelon Pipeline Company to cease all operations on the oil pipeline at Nahal Zin – into which 1.5 million liters of oil gushed last Wednesday – […]

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By Taylor Luck AMMAN – Jordanian energy officials have reiterated their commitment to securing alternative energy sources as technical delays continue to stall the resumption of Egyptian gas supplies. According to Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Khaled Toukan, officials are exploring alternative energy sources as Egyptian gas supplies have yet to resume since an […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 07/07/2011 04:39 Environmental Protection Ministry announces significant improvement in water quality due to cease in wastewater flow from Haifa Chemicals. The Kishon River Authority announced a significant improvement in water quality due to a cease in the wastewater flow from the nearby Haifa Chemicals plant at the beginning of May, a statement […]

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By Hana Namrouqa SHAUMARI WILDLIFE RESERVE – The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) is currently introducing Arabian Oryx from Saudi Arabia to the Shaumari Wildlife Reserve. The measure seeks to prevent inbreeding and subsequent genetic disorders in Arabian Oryx herds in the reserve, according to Shaumari Wildlife Reserve Director Ashraf Halah. “The […]

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Monitoring efforts by the Civil Administration are not preventing large amounts of refuse from Israel proper from being dumped illegally in the West Bank. By Zafrir Rinat An official from the Israel Defense Forces’ Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria, who traveled recently to the Palestinian villages Rantis and Shuqba, near Ramallah, saw a familiar […]

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Cabinet will to try to preempt the move on Sunday. By Avi Bar-Eli The Lebanese government has hired a Norwegian firm to conduct a seismic survey on the border of Israel’s exclusive economic zone. Lebanon intends to parcel out the rights to search for natural gas and oil in the area, which may also include […]

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The era of inexpensive and easily accessible fossil fuels may be drawing to a close, and some Israelis are preparing for it in earnest. By David Sheen * * Published 01:57 08.07.11 * Latest update 01:57 08.07.11 Preparing for the end of the world as we know it The era of inexpensive and easily accessible […]

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While recent data show that the birthrate is gradually declining in their communities, some Haredi women still opt for large families – and careers, too. By Tamar Rotem Each time, the news was declared as if a gong was being sounded: “Mazal tov – you have a new sister.” That imaginary gong was struck every […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 07/07/2011 11:24 Gelatinous creatures muck up filters at Hadera power plant; Global warming, overfishing may be contributing to glut of local species. Over the past few days, schools of jellyfish inundated the seawater cooling system at the Orot Rabin coal power plant in Hadera, requiring a mechanical “trash-rake” to pull them off […]

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By Rand Dalgamouni AMMAN – Jordan has great potential to achieve energy security if it properly utilises its renewable energy resources, researchers said on Wednesday. In a session during the “Energy Security in the Middle East and the Gulf Region” forum yesterday, researcher Ahmad Azzam said the Kingdom’s theoretical potential to benefit from wind and […]

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By Yoram Gabison Shari Arison’s Shikun & Binui is negotiating to buy the controlling interest in Ormat Industries from the geothermal energy company’s founders, the Bronicki family. Ormat Industries owns the controlling interest in Wall Street-listed Ormat Technologies, which is the operational arm of the renewable-energy group. bronicki – Ofer Vaknin – July 8 2011 […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Construction work on the JD22 million Kufranjah Dam in Ajloun Governorate will start next month to store rainwater for drinking purposes, a government official said on Tuesday. Two agreements will be signed on Thursday with international and local companies for the implementation of the project and supervision of its construction, […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Although school-age children in Jordan are aware of the country’s water and energy scarcity, they do not take action to change their consumption patterns of the two precious resources, experts in the field said on Wednesday. To this end, an interactive exhibition will be established at the Children’s Museum of […]

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But Second Broadcasting Authority ombudsman calls ads deceptive, inaccurate. By Ophir Bar-Zohar and Ora Coren The Dead Sea Works will be allowed to continue its $1.5 million media campaign, the Second Authority for Television and Radio decided yesterday. The Dead Sea Works, a subsidiary of the Ofer family’s Israel Corporation, is trying to convince the […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 07/06/2011 04:20 “Water is a basic human right, it should not be used as a weapon against humanity,” environmental and water engineer Nader al-Khateeb says. Talkbacks (1) A panel whose aim was to address “cross-border cooperation in managing water basins” quickly became a political struggle that overpowered participants’ individual ideas toward improving […]

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By Najib Saab, Issue 147, June 2010 Taking advantage of astounding Arab apathy, African countries of the Nile Basin met in the absence of Egypt and Sudan to agree on a plan for sharing the Nile water. Ethiopia, which is the source of 85 percent of the Blue Nile, is only able to utilize a […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Construction work on the JD22 million Kufranjah Dam in Ajloun Governorate will start next month to store rainwater for drinking purposes, a government official said on Tuesday. Two agreements will be signed on Thursday with international and local companies for the implementation of the project and supervision of its construction, […]

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The price of electricity is about to jump 20 percent, but will the cottage-cheese revolutionaries boycott the politicians who foiled a plan to develop Gaza’s gas field? By Akiva Eldar The 20-percent increase in the electricity price presumably will not spur the cottage-cheese revolutionaries to call upon the public to start using candles and to […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Two industrial wastewater treatment units will be established this year in the Kingdom’s two major stone and marble cutting sites to conserve water and reduce environment pollution, officials said on Tuesday. Under two agreements signed yesterday between the Ministry of Water and Irrigation and the Jordan Business Alliance on Water […]

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