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Landau pushes solar effort for Gaza evacuees – Jerusalem Post

By SHARON UDASIN 03/07/2012 23:42 Energy and Water Minister sign 23 new licenses for 62 megawatts worth of solar production facilities. Energy and Water Minister Uzi Landau sent a request to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Interior Minister Eli Yishai, asking that they declare the future photovoltaic power plant for Gaza evacuee communities a national […]

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Jordan, US sign environmental work plan agreement – Jordan Times

by Hana Namrouqa | Mar 04,2012 AMMAN — Jordan and the US on Sunday signed a work plan communiqué on environmental cooperation, which is intended to promote green growth, sustainable development and job creation in the Kingdom. The work plan communiqué was signed at the US-Jordan Joint Forum on Environmental Technical Cooperation, during which Jordanian […]

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Government: Haifa ammonia reservoir to be closed within next few years – Haaretz

‘We must take dangerous industrial facilities out of residential areas, to minimize the risk to the population,’ says environmental protection minister. By Zafrir Rinat A reservoir in Haifa that holds thousands of tons of ammonia and is considered a potentially deadly environmental threat will be shut down within the next few years, according to the […]

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Israel, Cyprus, Greece sign electric cable deal – Jerusalem Postt

By SHARON UDASIN 03/04/2012 17:55 287-km. underwater electricity line will connect Israel’s energy supply to EU, via Cyprus and Crete. Israeli, Greek, Cypriot officials By IEC For both Israel and Cyprus, connecting the countries through an underwater cable will foster more than just electrical stability for two energy islands – it will further the sense […]

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Lucky Paris, unlucky Tel Aviv – Haaretz

When the total cost of the project is calculated, the Jerusalem light-rail project will be seen as one of Israel’s worst boondoggles. By Moshe Arens I am green with envy and raging mad. In Paris, they have just launched the service of automatic subway trains on Line 1, the city’s busiest, running from La Defense […]

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Al-Bia Wal-Tamni March 2012

Volume 17, No.168, March 2012 5 Environment and public relations (editorial by Najib Saab) 10 How to protect your children from home poisons personal tips 18 Climate refugees (cover story) 24 Sinking Rufisque a city in Senegal devoured by the ocean 26 Natural gas for vehicles in Egypt 28 Dutch embassy in Amman, first LEED […]

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Dam storage at ‘reassuring’ third of capacity after heavy rain – Jordan Times

by Hana Namrouqa | Mar 04,2012 | 22:42 AMMAN — The polar depression that brought heavy rain and snow to Jordan this weekend raised water storage in the country’s major dams to a “reassuring” third of their total capacity, according to the Ministry of Water and Irrigation. “The country’s major dams now hold 106 million […]

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Winter showers bring Negev flowers – Jerusalem Post

By MELANIE LIDMAN 03/04/2012 23:53 Season sees 50% more rainfall than average, spelling relief for farmers. Pura Nature Reserve By Melanie Lidman For six years, the drooping eucalyptus trees illustrated the frustration of the Negev’s farmers: Like most trees, they were suffering from a severe drought and did not have enough water to blossom. Unable […]

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Kinneret rises 20 centimeters after Israel’s stormy weekend – Haaretz / Jerusalem Post

Increase comes after heavy snowfall in northern Israel and Jerusalem, and as rains inundate Tel Aviv. By Eli Ashkenazi A weekend of heavy rains and snowstorms throughout the country contributed to a 20 centimeter rise in the level of Lake Kinneret, one of Israel’s primary sources of drinking water. The Kinneret’s water level has risen […]

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Tourism Ministry, U.S. Consulate Inaugurate Conservation Project – WAFA

Date : 1/3/2012 Time : 14:17 Print News Email News Bookmark and Share JERUSALEM, March 1, 2012 (WAFA) – Tourism Minister Khouloud Daibes and US Consul General Daniel Rubinstein Thursday hosted a ceremony at the historical mound of Tel al-Sultan in Jericho to commemorate the completion of a conservation project funded by the State Department’s […]

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Conflict zones looking to U.S.- Israeli NGO’s model for environmental cooperation – Haaretz

The Good Water Neighbors program encourages communities in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories to cooperate with one another to improve shared water resources. By Andrew Tobin Water and peace are two of the scarcest commodities in the Middle East. But Friends of the Earth Middle East, a nonprofit environmental and peace organization, has managed […]

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Activists heckle PM during talk on green growth – Jerusalem Post

By SHARON UDASIN 02/28/2012 21:41 Environmental economics vital to future development, and even to efforts against Iran, says Netanyahu. Protesters disrupted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s opening address at Tuesday’s First National Green Growth Convention, with shouts against the government’s intended planning and building reforms. The reforms intend to streamline the building approval process and make […]

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Israel Environment Ministry: IDF getting away with pollution – Haaretz

Environment Ministry official saw fuel, oil leaking into ground on tour of IDF bases 18 months ago; official says civilian polluter would have already been investigated by the ministry’s enforcement officials. By Zafrir Rinat The Israel Defense Forces is ignoring the requirement to submit environmental quality reports with apparent impunity, according to a senior Environmental […]

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Tests show dye in Beirut River not dangerous – Daily Star

By Van Meguerditchian The Daily Star BEIRUT: Tests show the red liquid that contaminated the Beirut River earlier this month was not dangerous, Environment Minister Nazim Khoury said Thursday. Around two weeks ago, the Beirut River turned red after a stream of an unidentified liquid began pouring into the river through a sewage pipe adjacent […]

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Making the desert boom – Jerusalem Post

By NICHOLAS SAIDEL AND HARVEY RUBIN 02/27/2012 22:59 However great the economic impact of Israel’s energy sector transformation will be, the interdependent geopolitical consequences look even more astonishing. We are now witnessing a transformation of the energy landscape of Israel. In the short term, Israel is actually suffering from an energy shortage. Warnings of blackouts […]

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Rangers’ protests: A new era for Egypt’s protectorates? – Egypt Independent

Rangers working in several of Egypt’s protectorates staged sit-ins earlier this month for the first time to protest problems related to their work conditions and to call attention to the ongoing threats to Egypt’s protectorates, which they work to safeguard. In what Waleed Hassan, one of the protesting rangers who spoke to Egypt Independent, called […]

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AFED AT UNEP’S GLOBAL MINISTERIAL FORUM IN NAIROBI – AFED

Nairobi, 22 February 2012 Secretary General of the Arab Forum for Environment & Development (AFED), Najib Saab, spoke on prospects of green economy in the Arab countries, at a ministerial roundtable during the Global Ministerial Environment Forum held at the Headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi. The panel, attended by representatives […]

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Electricity cutoff – Haaretz

Urban planning experts fear that a proposed network of overhead electricity cables alongside existing railway tracks will finally sever Haifa from the lower city – a focus of the city’s rejuvenation . By Zafrir Rinat The authorization stage of Israel Railways’ ambitious project to electrify its tracks is nearing completion. The project is designed to […]

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Fishermen blame aquaculture for diminishing wild fry population – Egypt Independent

Cam McGrath Fri, 24/02/2012 Alexandria-born fisherman Ali Mohsen has seen his profits ebb and flow with the tide. The salty septuagenarian spent his youth plying the coastal lagoons of the Nile Delta. He recalls a time before the Aswan High Dam when sardines churned the muddy shallows near Rosetta, and glows while describing the bountiful […]

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New plant to enhance power supply – Jordan Times

by Khaled Neimat | Feb 28,2012 | 00:02 QATRANEH — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday inaugurated a multimillion 373-megawatt power plant in the southern Governorate of Karak that is expected to increase electricity generation by 12 per cent. The JD420 million project near the town of Qatraneh, 100km south of Amman, is the second […]

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