The state is planning to lay a gas pipeline, Route 6 and a railway track on Druze lands in the Jezreel Valley. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/my-state-is-giving-up-on-me-1.300265 By Rafik Halabi The expropriation of Druze lands in the Jezreel Valley keeps coming up. The state is planning to lay a gas pipeline, Route 6 and a railway track on these […]

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http://www.haaretz.com/magazine/anglo-file/beit-shemesh-anglos-reject-zionist-take-on-shale-oil-project-by-steinhardt-1.300876 By Cnaan Liphshiz Immigrants from the Beit Shemesh area voiced strong objection this week to what they term the “use of Zionist rhetoric” by Jewish American businessman Michael Steinhardt to promote a controversial oil extraction project in the area. Steinhardt’s Israeli associates said Zionism was the only reason he was involved in the project. […]

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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=116880#axzz0tBrP8XoM CAIRO: Wind turbine firm Zephyr is close to a deal with an Egyptian mobile firm to bolster network coverage for tourists, whose roaming rates offer a lucrative market, and trim remote area operating costs, executives said. The privately owned Japan-based company, whose clients include Vodafone and Turkcell, hopes windswept areas along the Red Sea […]

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By RON FRIEDMAN http://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/Health/Article.aspx?id=180911 Employee used position, access to ministry computers to produce fake permits. Police arrested an employee at the Agriculture Ministry on Thursday on suspicion of selling fake permits to purchase a controlled chemical pesticide. The suspect, Uri Haim, allegedly sold permits to farmers that allowed them to buy 67 tons of a […]

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http://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/ScienceAndEnvironment/Article.aspx?id=180795 By LAHAV HARKOV Naval police led a coal ship to its dock in Hadera on Thursday, after local Greenpeace activists attempted to prevent it from entering Israel. Group members from Israel and Germany approached the Orient Venus, which had made its way from South Africa to Israeli territorial waters near Hadera, with a rubber […]

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West Bank city sees a future in recycling: Nablus is at the heart of a Palestinian movement to promote biodiversity and self-sufficiency. By Daniella Cheslow July 4, 2010 10:17 http://web1.globalpost.com/dispatch/israel-and-palestine/100419/nablus-palestinian-west-bank-israel-recycling?page=0,1 NABLUS, West Bank — When Nablus city councilman Hafez Shaheen took office in 2005, he struggled to maintain basic urban functions like electricity and water as […]

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http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=180642 By EHUD ZION WALDOKS Research into how Mediterranean and Red seas affected by global warming. Global warming is heating up the oceans and making them more acidic. How will these changes affect the coral reefs in the Mediterranean and Red Seas? Bar-Ilan University researcher Prof. Zvy Dubinsky just launched a €3-million, five year project […]

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The defense establishment is demanding that the state delay approval for the construction of gas reception terminals on a strip of Israel’s coastline. http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/mess-report/mess-report-israel-s-coastal-gas-facilities-may-make-a-tempting-target-for-hezbollah-1.300245 Israel’s coastal gas facilities may make a tempting target for Hezbollah The defense establishment is demanding that the state delay approval for the construction of gas reception terminals on a strip […]

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http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=28144 By Hana Namrouqa DIBBEEN /AJLOUN – Despite being a sanctuary for globally endangered species and the world’s last remaining southeastern forest community of Aleppo pines, the Dibbeen Forest Reserve is still threatened by the axes of illegal loggers and fires caused by negligent picnickers, conservationists say. Since the beginning of the year, at least […]

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3916818,00.html Environmental activists board deck of ship transporting coal from South Africa to Hadera. Activists are demanding that ship not enter Israel out of protest against building coal-fired power plant in Ashkelon. Naval police succeed in bringing environmental activists to shore Aviel Magnezi Greenpeace activists said Thursday that they have taken over a ship en […]

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3914156,00.html Jewish National Fund seeks to raise $1 million to replace over 300,000 trees destroyed last week. On Tuesday, June 29, forest fires raged across Israel, destroying over 300,000 trees and burning over 750 acres of forested and open areas. Arson is suspected in many cases, and conditions worsened due to Israel’s severe heat wave. […]

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http://www.jordantimes.com/index.php?news=28086 By Raed Omari AMMAN – Officials are holding out hope that a series of projects will bring an end to ongoing water distribution issues in Irbid Governorate as residents say they have turned to bottled water to ease their water woes. Several people living in the northern governorate told The Jordan Times that due […]

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http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=28077 By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – The Ministry of Environment on Monday launched an awareness campaign on the proper use and disposal of hazardous waste generated by car wash and oil change stations. The month-long campaign targets car wash and oil change stations in seven densely populated governorates, where the number of these facilities is […]

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http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=297768 Jenin – Ma’an – Summer camp councilors, youth ministry staff, and Palestinian Authority forces launched a volunteer campaign to help clear rubbish from the streets of the northern West Bank district of Jenin from rubbish on Thursday. Municipal officials, Fatah representatives, and PA police officers participated in the campaign, which aims to clear streets […]

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By EHUD ZION WALDOKS 07/01/2010 04:16 Thomas Sandner dismisses potential difficulties in the market. http://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/ScienceAndEnvironment/Article.aspx?id=180047 Thomas Sandner, chairman of the board of Abakus Solar, dismissed potential difficulties in the global solar energy market this year telling The Jerusalem Post instead that solar had a “bright future” and predicting increased demand. Sandner spoke to the Post […]

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By Avi Bar-Eli http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/only-half-of-approved-solar-panels-installed-1.299592 Yesterday was the deadline for hooking up solar panels to the national electricity network, but only 53% of panels that businesses were licensed to install have been connected. The Israel Electric Corporation approved requests to connect solar panels with a total of 51 megawatts of production capacity before December 14, at […]

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By Ammar Karim Agence France-Presse http://www.jordantimes.com/index.php?news=27974 BAGHDAD – Private power providers in Baghdad are selling electricity at almost four times the maximum legal price, exploiting shortages and stifling summer heat while crime bosses pilfer dwindling public supplies. Even though suppliers are breaking the law, people feel compelled to pay up in an unregulated market because […]

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http://www.jordantimes.com/index.php?news=27951 CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian fishermen’s union is suing the government over an oil spill near the Red Sea coast, which it says polluted 17 islands off the coast, the union’s head said on Wednesday. Officials in the Red Sea city of Hurghada said earlier last month that the spill had polluted areas along […]

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By Amiram Cohen http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/cost-of-water-for-households-increasing-by-5-1.299601 The cost of water to households increased yesterday by 5%. The new price is NIS 8.50 per cubic meter per person for the first 2.5 cubic meters a month. From that point, water will cost NIS 12.50 per cubic meter. The price includes municipal charges for sewage services. Water for industry […]

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By Hana Namrouqa http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=27916 AMMAN – A new JD5.5 million project aims to solve water loss in Karak Governorate, where over half the water is lost due to poor infrastructure, officials said on Tuesday. Under an agreement signed yesterday by the Water Authority of Jordan (WAJ), the German Development Bank (KfW) and a local engineering […]

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