By SHARON UDASIN 01/19/2016 “Preserving these areas is clearly in the public interest because they serve the Israeli public, significantly reduce air pollution and serve as the green lungs of the country.” Claiming the National Council for Planning and Building intends to destroy the country’s open spaces by advancing certain construction programs, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Jan 20,2016 A photo shared on social media purportedly shows hunters posing with dead gazelles they hunted in Rweished recently AMMAN — Authorities are investigating a group of poachers who allegedly shot down about a dozen of the Rhim gazelle, an internationally endangered species, in the eastern desert on the Jordanian-Syrian […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Jan 19,2016 AMMAN — Authorities dealt with 162 violations recorded on 300 dunums of forest lands across the country over the past three months, a senior government official said on Tuesday. The registered violations on the forest lands were cultivations, quarries and building and they were removed under a national plan […]

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Author: Al-Masry Al-Youm The piles of dead fish that have rattled residents of cities overlooking the Nile River distributary of Rosetta were killed by pollution caused by sewage, said the Health Ministry, practically backtracking on the government’s earlier denial and blame on fishermen. Ammonia and unprocessed sewage discharge from a drainage station in Giza caused […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 01/18/2016 Among the charges being brought against the defendants are severe circumstances of water pollution, hazardous waste dumping and littering in a public domain. As a result of two 2011 incidents in which fuel oil heavily contaminated southern Israel’s Nahal Zin, the State Attorney’s Office filed an indictment against the Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline […]

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By MICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN 01/17/2016 An effort is now underway to upgrade the existing system in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Ministry. The Environmental Protection Ministry on Sunday opened a criminal probe after a power outage caused sewage to leak into the Kishon River over the weekend in Kiryat Tivon, near Haifa. Authorities were able […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 01/10/2016 Aiming to convey 5 billion cubic meters of gas from Israel to Egypt, the deal calls for employing the now defunct East Mediterranean Gas company pipeline. Three weeks after National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Minister Yuval Steinitz granted his approval for the first deal to export gas from Israel to Egypt, […]

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Jan 10,2016 AMMAN — The bombing of the Jordanian-Egyptian gas pipeline in Sinai does not affect the Kingdom, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, quoted a government source as saying on Friday. The source told Petra that Jordan receives its gas supply through the Aqaba liquefied natural gas terminal. Electricity generation stations are supplied by around […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 01/13/2016 Afek Oil: Drilling is occurring without environmental damage, according to requirements. Arguing that oil works in the Golan Heights may harm the public interest and pose a potential threat to environmental and water resources, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel filed its objections on Tuesday to a recent […]

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Sierra Leone denied on Sunday media reports that said that it is willing to receive Lebanon’s garbage as part of a recently approved deal to tackle the country’s waste management problem, reported al-Jadeed television. Sierra Leone’s consul in Lebanon Donald Roy Josepeh Abed deemed the reports as “baseless.” “The Sierra Leone authorities warned against spreading […]

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Environment Minister Mohammad Machnouk has filed a request with Lebanese Customs to ban the importation of incinerators over environmental concerns. “Burning solid domestic waste could produce persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that breach the Stockholm Convention,” the ministry said in a statement issued Monday. Lebanon is bound according to the Stockholm Convention, which was signed in […]

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by Hana Namrouqa – Jan 10,2016 – The Dibbeen Forest Reserve located in Jerash Governorate (Photo courtesy of RSCN) AMMAN — The Kingdom’s green cover increased by 15,000 dunums over the past three years, while violations on the country’s forests dropped by more than half during the same period, according to the Forestry Department. Ongoing […]

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by Mohammad Ghazal – Jan 12,2016 AMMAN — Jordan is the leading Arab country in renewable energy and the potential for more projects is greater, officials and experts said Monday. Compared to Germany, which generates almost a third of its electricity via renewable projects, solar irradiance in the Kingdom is more than double that in […]

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By JT – Dec 30,2015 AMMAN — Jordan on Wednesday signed a grant agreement with the German Development Bank (KfW) to finance a solar plant to produce electricity for the Zaatari camp and refugee host communities at a value of 15 million euros, according to a statement from the Ministry of Planning and International cooperation. […]

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By Mohammad Ghazal – Dec 31,2015 AMMAN — The Energy Ministry on Thursday warned against stealing electricity as it would likely lead to power cuts, especially in light of the current weather conditions affecting the country. “During winter and the depression that is currently affecting the country, the power load rises rapidly and when some […]

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By JT – Jan 07,2016 AMMAN — The government has extended, for the second time, the deadline to receive bids to implement the Green Corridor project, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, quoted Energy Minister Ibrahim Saif as saying on Thursday. The $159.7 million project aims at increasing the national grid’s capacity to absorb the loads […]

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By Yeganeh Torbati Reuters, Washington Wednesday, 6 January 2016 U.S.-led coalition air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) oil facilities have cut the militant group’s oil revenues by about 30 percent since October, a coalition spokesman said on Wednesday ISIS, an adversary the United States calls the wealthiest terrorist group of its […]

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AFP, Cairo Friday, 8 January 2016 The Egyptian branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on Thursday said it had bombed a pipeline that carries gas to Jordan and to a major industrial zone in north Sinai. Security sources confirmed that attackers set off explosive devices under the pipeline close to […]

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HEBRON, January 05, 2016 (WAFA) – Israeli army Tuesday notified two Palestinians to remove water tanks used for agriculture purposes in their lands in Thughrit al-Shabak area, north of Beit Ummar in Hebron. Mohammad Awad, spokesperson of the anti-settlement popular committee in Beit Ummar, informed WAFA that Israeli forces raided Thughrit al-Shabak area and handed […]

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The government of Ethiopia is spending billions of its own money to build the Grand Renaissance dam. 31 Dec 2015 see http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2015/12/ethiopia-dam-source-conflict-cooperation-151229130333919.html for video When it’s finished, it will be Africa’s largest hydroelectric power plant and will help solve a national energy crisis in Ethiopia. But other countries in the region are concerned about the […]

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