By Taylor Luck AMMAN – Jordan’s natural gas supplies from Egypt were cut late Sunday in what marked the third act of sabotage on the Arab Gas Pipeline this year. An explosion near Port Fouad in the Sinai Peninsula has disrupted the flow of Egyptian gas to the Kingdom, the latest in a series of […]

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Attack on Egypt pipeline shuts down production; last two attacks knocked out service for total of 80 days. By Avi Bar-Eli Seven years after the advent of the natural gas era in Israel, the government is mulling a return to generating electricity with the use of costlier, dirtier fuels because of the unreliability of the […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 07/05/2011 02:52 Prices may rise as Israel Electric Corporation needs to replace gas with coal, heavy fuel, or diesel, as well as using own natural gas. Talkbacks (2) After saboteurs blew up a section of the Egyptian natural gas pipeline, which conveys gas to both Israel and Jordan, for the third time […]

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For the third time in a relatively short span the gas supply from Egypt to the Kingdom was interrupted because of an act of sabotage. The explosion of the natural gas pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula is inevitably going to make it difficult for Jordan to meet its energy needs, already taxed by the summer […]

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The Jerusalem Post newspaper has a section called “green Israel > People and the Environment“, with promotional material from the Jewish National Fund (JNF). However, some of the posted items are relevant news items, which we recommend readers to check out. For example, the following item: Promoting forestry legislation in Israel. As a part of […]

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23-06-2011. Source: ENPI info centre The Lebanese Centre for Energy Conservation (LCEC) has organised a workshop on the National Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Action Initiative (NEEREA) and other financing mechanisms to support investments in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energies, in the framework of the EU-funded project “EU Support to the LCEC”. […]

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05-07-2011. Source: ENPI info centre Hosting more than one third of international tourism and focusing more than a quarter of the world capacity of accommodation, tourism in Mediterranean countries represents a vital economic resource in the region. However, these countries also share concerns when it comes to environmental issues, with a growing demand for environmentally […]

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29-06-2011. Source: ENPI Info Centre A project to build a major desalination plant in Gaza, capable of producing 100 million cubic meters of drinking water a year, has officially been approved by Senior Officials representing the 43 member countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). A press release from the UfM Secretariat said the €310 […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – UNESCO has declared the Mujib Nature Reserve a biosphere reserve in recognition of its unique location as the world’s lowest-altitude reserve and its programmes integrating nature conservation with community development. Mujib is among 18 new biosphere reserves that were added on July 1 to UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves, […]

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While water level of fabled salty lake dropping nearly 4 feet a year, part of it is actually overflowing – threatening one of Israel’s key tourism destinations Associated Press Published: 07.03.11, 08:01 / Israel Activism Share on TwitterShare on Facebook share The Dead Sea is dying, goes the conventional wisdom: The water level of the […]

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By AARON KATSMAN 06/29/2011 22:48 The need to increase access to clean water around the world has led some to call water the “oil” of this century. As the oppressive heat of summer is upon us, we are constantly reminded of our need for water. We walk around with water bottles, force our kids to […]

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Ammannet – Hanin Ramahi Friends of the Earth Middle East called on the government and neighboring countries for the rehabilitation of the Jordan River, given its importance environmentally, religiously, and as a source of water. The demand for rehabilitation came after a study prepared by the association that assessed the reality of environmental damage on […]

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Cross border women’s meeting in Gilboa FoEME’s Good Water Neighbors project brought together 25 women from the Giloba Regional Council in Israel and the Jenin / Jalameh community in Palestine on June 6th, for the first of a series of planned meetings. The women toured together their shared water resource, the Kishon Stream, today heavily […]

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Ammannet – Munira Shatti Jordan Valley residents have been waiting their turn for water for up to three weeks in spite of new procedures set by the Ministry of Water and Irrigation to try and solve both the supply and demand problem that the entire region is experiencing. The residents of Al-Karama in the Southern […]

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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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Ammannet – Hanin Ramahi The Energy Conservation and Sustainable Environment society intends to file a lawsuit against the Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company and the Jordanian Prime Minister for violating diesel production standards in a way that threatens the environment and public hygiene. The Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company confessed to violating diesel production standards and pointed […]

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By GUY KATSOVITCH 06/30/2011 23:37 “This new information is likely to drive more interest to the area from both the energy world as well as the financial world,” report says. Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank are both upbeat on the gas and oil discovery announced by the Myra and Sarah licensees. “This new information is […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 07/01/2011 01:24 Experts say drilling will be clean and won’t leave a footprint; IEI’s shale extraction process aims to produce 40 billion barrels of oil. Talkbacks (13) Shooting out of a pipe at the Zoharim oil shale drilling site southwest of Beit Shemesh on Wednesday morning was the first shale sample from […]

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By Taylor Luck AMMAN – The government is set to receive bids for the country’s first wind farm next month, as energy officials attempt to revive the Kingdom’s drive for renewable energy. According to Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Khaled Toukan, eight shortlisted international firms are to submit bids in July for the planned […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Warning that “there is no such thing as a safe nuclear reactor,” environment activists staged a sit-in on Wednesday to express their rejection of the Kingdom’s nuclear programme. Wearing gasmasks and white overalls and surrounding themselves with radioactive nuclear waste barrels, scores of young men and women lay down on […]

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