Wind turbines, hydroelectricity and solar power are on the agenda in Morocco, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, but experts say region still lags far behind Europe and North America, despite growing investments The Media Line|Published: 01.17.19 The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Egypt are leading the charge in the Middle East to adopt […]

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Jan 22,2019 AMMAN — Jordan has ranked third as the best investment environment in the field of renewable energy, according to the Bloomberg’s Climatescope 2018 Index, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Hala Zawati said. The index announced Jordan, among 103 countries, taking the third slot after Chile and India, in attracting investments into its […]

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Maram Kayed – Jan 24,2019 Now that 99.9 per cent of Jordanian households have electricity, the Energy Ministry announced that the “Fils Al Reef” fee will be channelled into installing solar panels for underprivileged families. According to Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Spokesperson Mashhour Abu Eid, Fils Al Reef, which is a fee added […]

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By EYTAN HALON 12/29/2018 Utilight is bringing game-changing laser printing technology to Israel’s periphery. While hi-tech firms the world over look toward China as the ideal destination for locating their manufacturing facilities, one Israeli company is bucking the trend in spectacular fashion. Looking much closer to home, Yavne-based solar-cell printing technology start-up Utilight is planning […]

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By BEN BRESKY 01/25/2019 “We are in favor of the development of natural gas, but we are also in favor of our health,” MK Gabbay stated at the rally. Labor leader MK Avi Gabbay joined protesters in calling to remove gas rigs from Dor Beach near Haifa in Israel’s north. “There is no more just […]

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Mohammad Ghazal – Jan 28,2019 AMMAN — Jordan has officially started receiving half of its daily needs of natural gas for electricity generation from Egypt, a government official said on Sunday. The Kingdom, which started receiving experimental quantities from Egypt in August last year, is currently receiving from Egypt some 165 million cubic feet of […]

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Lebanon has signed a deal with Russia’s largest oil company, Rosneft, to upgrade and operate storage installations in the country’s northern city of Tripoli. Caretaker Energy Minister Cesar Abi Khalil signed the deal on Friday, in the presence of Russian Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin, and told reporters that Rosneft will manage storage operations. Abi […]

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January 21, 2019 Egyptian Environment Minister Yasmin Fouad announced that the government has prepared a tariff for the sale of energy from waste (EfW), in cooperation with the Electricity Ministry. All procedures are being finalized with the Finance Ministry and will be announced within weeks, the al-Borsa newspaper reported Fouad as saying. The minister said […]

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January 26, 2019 An Egyptian ministerial delegation including Minister of Local Development Mahmoud Sharawy, Minister of Defense Mohammed al-Assar and Minister of Environment Yasmen Fouad returned to Cairo on Friday following a five-day visit to Germany seeking to obtain knowledge on the global technological systems of waste management. The delegation held meetings with Germany’s Minister […]

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note: The report mentioned below: 2019 Report: Climate Change, Water Security and National Security for Jordan, Palestine and Israel is available at ecopeaceme.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/climate-change-web.pdf EcoPeace’s Workshop on Water Security and Environmental Peacebuilding From the 10th to the 15th of December, EcoPeace Middle East hosted a first of its kind workshop on ‘Middle East Water Security and […]

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In addition to rocket fire and airborne incendiary devices, residents of Israeli communities bordering Gaza are now battling putrid smell of giant landfills and sewage from the strip’s northern neighborhoods that’s polluting Israel’s groundwater. Matan Tzuri|Published: 01.15.19 The residents of Israeli communities bordering Gaza, who for years have been dealing with Hamas rocket attacks and […]

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editor’s noteL The Jordan Times has been running a series of articles promoting biosaline agriculture – agriculture that requires less water and can tolerate high heat. They are grouped below. From law to biosaline agriculture, Turman challenges coventional farming techniques – Jordan Times By Reem Rawashdeh – Jan 03,2019 AMMAN — For Odeh Al Turman, […]

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Dec 29,2018 – AMMAN — The Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) said on Saturday that the Ghabawi landfill will start generating 5 megawatts per hour (MWh) as of next February. The GAM is working on investing in using waste to produce electricity, Amman Mayor Yousef Shawarbeh said during an inspection of a recycling centre in east […]

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The JNF, Israel’s chief forestry body, intends to turn vast open Mediterranean landscapes into planted forests – this is a real threat to the future of some of the most important open spaces in the region Zafrir Rinat | Jan. 14, 2019 | 4:09 AM | 3 The landscapes of the eastern Mediterranean are an […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Jan 09,2019 AMMAN — The Ministry of Water and Irrigation has implemented desalination projects worth JD40 million which have generated 3,500 cubic metres of water per hour over the past three years, a senior government official said on Tuesday. The projects included the construction of new desalination plants and the rehabilitation […]

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By Ahmed Bani Mustafa – Jan 10,2019 AMMAN — Exempting electric vehicles (EVs) from customs is a positive measure, however, more is needed to “rescue” the trade, stakeholders said. After raising the tax on EVs from zero to 25 per cent, the government recently decided to exempt around 2,500 vehicles that were imported or bought […]

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Luxor governorate has launched President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s campaign “Shabab fi Hob Misr” (Youth and Love in Egypt) on Wednesday to plant one million fruit trees as part of a plan to develop Luxor city. Head of Luxor City Ayman al-Sherif said that the campaign would plant the trees in al-Mattar district during the first […]

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Sad fate of West Bank environment: Caught between illegal Palestinian hunters and illegal settlement expansionists Zafrir Rinat | Dec. 28, 2018 | 2:23 AM | 1 The trial of three West Bank settlers charged with opening a new road to the unauthorized outpost of Alonei Shiloh began this week. Part of the road passes through […]

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Zafrir Rinat | Jan. 12, 2019 The many tourists visiting the resort town Eilat who sun themselves on the beaches and paddle in the Red Sea’s clear waters probably don’t think twice before anointing themselves with sunscreen. Most of them certainly don’t know that these lotions have an especially detrimental effect on one of the […]

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