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Jordan’s renewable energy resources highlighted – Jordan Times

By Rand Dalgamouni AMMAN – Jordan has great potential to achieve energy security if it properly utilises its renewable energy resources, researchers said on Wednesday. In a session during the “Energy Security in the Middle East and the Gulf Region” forum yesterday, researcher Ahmad Azzam said the Kingdom’s theoretical potential to benefit from wind and […]

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Shikun & Binui negotiating Ormat purchase – Haaretz

By Yoram Gabison Shari Arison’s Shikun & Binui is negotiating to buy the controlling interest in Ormat Industries from the geothermal energy company’s founders, the Bronicki family. Ormat Industries owns the controlling interest in Wall Street-listed Ormat Technologies, which is the operational arm of the renewable-energy group. bronicki – Ofer Vaknin – July 8 2011 […]

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Construction of Kufranjah Dam to start next month – Jordan Times

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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Interactive exhibition to educate children on water, energy conservation – Jordan Times

By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Although school-age children in Jordan are aware of the country’s water and energy scarcity, they do not take action to change their consumption patterns of the two precious resources, experts in the field said on Wednesday. To this end, an interactive exhibition will be established at the Children’s Museum of […]

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Ofers allowed to continue Dead Sea ads – Haaretz

But Second Broadcasting Authority ombudsman calls ads deceptive, inaccurate. By Ophir Bar-Zohar and Ora Coren The Dead Sea Works will be allowed to continue its $1.5 million media campaign, the Second Authority for Television and Radio decided yesterday. The Dead Sea Works, a subsidiary of the Ofer family’s Israel Corporation, is trying to convince the […]

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Panel on water solutions in Middle East gets heated – Jerusalem Post

By SHARON UDASIN 07/06/2011 04:20 “Water is a basic human right, it should not be used as a weapon against humanity,” environmental and water engineer Nader al-Khateeb says. Talkbacks (1) A panel whose aim was to address “cross-border cooperation in managing water basins” quickly became a political struggle that overpowered participants’ individual ideas toward improving […]

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Water apocalypse, now – Najib Saab

By Najib Saab, Issue 147, June 2010 Taking advantage of astounding Arab apathy, African countries of the Nile Basin met in the absence of Egypt and Sudan to agree on a plan for sharing the Nile water. Ethiopia, which is the source of 85 percent of the Blue Nile, is only able to utilize a […]

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Construction of Kufranjah Dam to start next month – Jordan Times

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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Border Control / Salvation under Gaza’s sea – Haaretz

The price of electricity is about to jump 20 percent, but will the cottage-cheese revolutionaries boycott the politicians who foiled a plan to develop Gaza’s gas field? By Akiva Eldar The 20-percent increase in the electricity price presumably will not spur the cottage-cheese revolutionaries to call upon the public to start using candles and to […]

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Wastewater treatment units to be established in Sahab, Foara – Jordan Times

By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Two industrial wastewater treatment units will be established this year in the Kingdom’s two major stone and marble cutting sites to conserve water and reduce environment pollution, officials said on Tuesday. Under two agreements signed yesterday between the Ministry of Water and Irrigation and the Jordan Business Alliance on Water […]

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Sinai explosion latest disruption in gas supply – Jordan Times

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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Government mulls return to dirty fuels after third attack on gas pipeline – Haaretz

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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Don’t raise prices following pipe explosion, experts say – Jerusalem Post

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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In the dark about policy – Jordan Times

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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Promoting forestry legislation in Israel [JPost/JNF]

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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EU supports investments in energy savings and renewable energies in Lebanon [ENPI info centre]

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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Share Tourism in the Med: Study seeks to raise awareness about eco-sustainable products, services and technologies [ENPI info centre]

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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First UfM project to help tackle Gaza water crisis with €310 million desalination plant [ENPI info centre]

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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Mujib declared biosphere reserve – Jordan Times

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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Dead Sea faces shrinking, flooding – YNET

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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