Environmental Protection Ministry has fewer than 40 inspectors, and very few of these deal exclusively with construction waste. By Zafrir Rinat The amount of construction waste reaching legal dumping sites has dropped by almost 50 percent in recent months, say the dumps’ operators. The illegal dumping of construction waste is arguably Israel’s most widespread environmental […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – The Ministry of Environment is embarking on a waste sorting and recycling project at public agencies, a senior government official said on Sunday. Work is under way on an integrated plan for sorting and recycling solid waste generated at ministries and government institutions to spread the culture of recycling in […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 11/24/2011 03:16 Israeli, German experts to work with Kenyans to upgrade fishery system, waste water treatment. Talkbacks () A team of Israeli and German experts will be working with Kenyan agricultural and water professionals to upgrade the commercial fishery system and waste water treatment mechanisms within the central African country’s Lake Victoria, […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 11/24/2011 03:10 Landau likens plan to affirmative action, but Palestinians critical of “Israeli-only” program. Talkbacks (2) The National Infrastructure Ministry has completed its process of adopting regulations for medium-sized solar fields in Judea and Samaria, and residents will be able to begin submitting applications to build fields shortly, the ministry said Tuesday. […]

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By Taylor Luck AMMAN – Jordan is three years away from its first operational wind farm as officials field interest in the country’s emerging renewable energy sector. Energy officials expect a wind farm in Fujeij, the Kingdom’s first large-scale renewable energy project, to be operational by 2014, according to Ziyad Jibril, head of the Ministry […]

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Incident marks 8th attack on pipeline which carries gas through Sinai and on to Jordan and Israel. By Reuters Saboteurs blew up a gas pipeline 60 km (37 miles) west of the Egyptian town of al-Arish in northern Sinai on Friday, the latest in series of attacks, state news agency MENA reported. The blast caused […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 11/23/2011 05:21 Authorities that provide licenses and oversee surveillance of offshore sites must be separated, experts tell Knesset. Talkbacks (1) Greater supervision must occur in offshore oil and natural gas drilling sites in order to prevent environmental crises, experts agreed at a special Knesset session held on Monday. The forum occurred at […]

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By Yoram Gabison The Bronickis have reached an agreement to share control over the Ormat geothermal energy group, which the family founded, with the First Israel Mezzanine Fund. The Bronickis own 35.3% of Ormat Industries, parent of Ormat Technologies, while FIMI has built up a 10.5% stake. Ormat Technologies is the operational arm that builds […]

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The cost of the cleanup is estimated at between NIS 3.8 billion (says the company) and NIS 5 billion (says the government). By Ora Coren and Rina Rozenberg Dead Sea Works should cover 90% of the cost of clearing out the salt from its evaporation pools, which are threatening to flood hotels at the Dead […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 11/25/2011 04:07 Adam Teva V’Din: Legislation for contaminated sites must be approved, Clean Air Law must be implemented properly. Talkbacks () For green advocacy giant Adam Teva V’Din (the Israel Union for Environmental Defense), the most pressing environmental issues of 2012 will be cleaning up contaminated waste sites and minimizing air pollution, […]

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Red tape holding back the pumps as pollution flows into Ein Bokek reserve. By Zafrir Rinat Bureaucratic delays that have dragged on for four years now are preventing the construction of an installation to pump contaminated water from the Rotem Plain area of the Negev. This means that pollution is spreading to groundwater and to […]

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Drivers report short hops within the city took an hour or longer with the pain rippling out from Tel Aviv into the suburbs of Ramat Gan and Givatayim. By Zafrir Rinat and Ilan Lior The bursting of a water main on Derekh Namir and the resulting blocking of the north-south road between Arlosoroff and Shaul […]

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Jewish American businessman, controlling shareholder of RWL Water, says Israel a global hub in water technology. ‘Unfortunately it is also a world champion in bureaucracy,’ he adds Lior Gutman, Calcalist Published: 11.18.11, 10:46 / Israel Business “A decade ago I realized that the future of the 21st century lies not in oil but in water. […]

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BEIRUT: Environment Minister Nazem Khoury promised Tuesday to energize his ministry’s role with a view to protecting Lebanon’s natural wealth. During a meeting at the invitation of the Rotary Cosmopolitan Club held at the Vendome Hotel in Beirut, Khoury explained his ministry’s work program and the slogan he raised under the title: “Political Environment in […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – With the onset of winter, authorities are intensifying monitoring of the country’s limited forests to prevent illegal logging, a practice that increases during the cold season, according to officials. The number of patrols from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Rangers will be doubled during winter to prevent loggers from […]

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By Enora Castagne The Daily Star Cedars in the Chouf region of Mount Lebanon. (Photo: Mahmoud Kheir/The Daily Star) Cedars in the Chouf region of Mount Lebanon. (Photo: Mahmoud Kheir/The Daily Star) BEIRUT: The first National Forest Program was launched Thursday, by the agriculture minister in cooperation with the German Development Cooperation agency (GIZ) in […]

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IMNEIZIL, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Clouds of uncertainty hung over this tiny Palestinian village on Wednesday, as locals waited to see if the Israeli army would call off its demolition of the community’s solar panels. It was two years ago that Spanish NGO SEBA joined forces with Nablus’ Al Najah University and installed two solar […]

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SALFIT, November 20, 2011 (WAFA) – Waste water from Revava settlement, which is established on the land of Deir Estia, near Salfit in the northern West Bank, completely destroyed 20 olive trees and flooded another 100 trees in Palestinian land around the settlement, Sunday said a local official. Nazmi Salman, mayor of Deir Estia, said […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Some eighty kilogrammes of waste have been dredged up from the Gulf of Aqaba as part of an ongoing campaign to clean up after visitors, conservationists said on Tuesday. The campaign was organised by the Aqaba Marine Park, an affiliate of the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority that is in […]

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Members of Friends of the Earth hold ‘funeral’ for lowest place on earth after government rejects bill aimed at protecting lake Yair Hasson Published: 11.22.11, 07:53 / Israel Activism The symbolic corpse of the Dead Sea was “laid to rest” outside the Knesset building in Jerusalem on Monday, about a week and a half after […]

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