By EHUD ZION WALDOKS Public Council to Prevent Noise and Air Pollution finds 9% of cars pollute more than acceptable standard. The Public Council to Prevent Noise and Air Pollution in Israel (Malraz) discovered more polluting cars during its spot-checks in 2009 than in previous years, according to the organization’s annual report released Tuesday. Nine […]

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By Khalid Neimat AMMAN – Prime Minister Samir Rifai on Thursday said the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project is an important step towards developing a comprehensive public transportation system in Amman, describing it as a “great achievement”. The premier laid the foundation stone for the project in a ceremony, during which he said the BRT […]

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Eight Greenpeace activists were arrested Thursday morning as they entered an coal-fueled electrical power plant in Hadera in an attempt to disrupt coal breakdown operations. The activists entered the power plant through the sea with inflatable dinghies and climbed up ropes to reach an elevated seaside coal dock. Greenpeace spokeswoman Hila Krupsky says activists climbed […]

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By Taylor Luck and Hani Hazaimeh AMMAN – The government is expected to formalise a deal with Egypt within the next two weeks to secure an additional 900 million cubic metres of natural gas, a senior official said on Wednesday. Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Khalid Irani said that during a meeting with his […]

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Jordan is one of the many developing countries in the world that has yet to start a campaign for the production of organic food. Until that happens, people will in most cases have to make do with agricultural produce that is treated with pesticides, insecticides and sometimes hormones, to the detriment of their health. Given […]

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By SHARON WROBEL 07/13/2010 23:41 Yacimovich: ‘This is a battle for a fair distribution of national resources’ A private member’s bill to raise gas royalties and increase taxes on natural resources was submitted to the Knesset on Tuesday by coalition and opposition MKs. “In our battle, we are undoubtedly going to face a strong opposition […]

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By EHUD ZION WALDOKS 07/14/2010 01:31 Arrow of light: Solar technology company announces will deploy blue and white technology in field. Israeli solar company MST announced on Tuesday that it had connected its first system to the national power grid to produce 50KW of electricity, making it the first Israeli firm to deploy blue and […]

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By EHUD ZION WALDOKS 07/13/2010 08:51 Israel’s ‘Don Quixote’ of wind power Eli Ben-Dov: In 10 years of working through the application process, I have yet to receive a license. Thirty-six years of “tilting at windmills” and attempting to promote the large-scale adoption of wind turbines to generate electricity has given Eli Ben-Dov a cutting […]

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By EHUD ZION WALDOKS 07/13/2010 08:55 First survey of nature sites aims to help integrate open spaces into urban planning. The first urban nature site survey of Jerusalem was unveiled by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel at its offices in the capital on Sunday night. The survey of 151 nature spots […]

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By EHUD ZION WALDOKS 07/12/2010 04:36 Horowitz, Ezra also make NGO list of green MKs. Hadash MK Dov Henin once again led the Israel Union for Environmental Defense (IUED) list of top environmental legislators, which was released on Sunday. The environmental NGO examined the legislative record of the first session of the 18th Knesset. This […]

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State Comptroller declared that the authorization process which okayed the building of a private resort in Palmahim, one of central Israel’s last unspoiled beaches. By Zafrir Rinat http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/ag-s-review-of-contentious-beach-resort-may-be-tainted-by-conflict-of-interests-environmental-groups-say-1.301011 The attorney general’s office may have had a conflict of interests in its probe of an approval given to erect a private resort on an unspoiled beach […]

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http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=180758 By RON FRIEDMAN Speed up permit-issuing now, delay construction planning reforms, they urge. Representatives of the planning and construction sector and environmentalists held a joint press conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday to call on Prime Minister Netanyahu and the government to change course on the Planning and Construction reform. The press conference featured […]

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Sandy Kedar is deeply concerned. As head of the Association for Distributive Justice, he sees how the state makes decisions about zoning and land sales – and is convinced that the people in charge are in cahoots with the tycoons and against the weak, lone consumer. By Shuki Sadeh http://www.haaretz.com/magazine/week-s-end/getting-a-grip-on-the-land-grab-1.298276 It seems like everyone everywhere […]

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The state is planning to lay a gas pipeline, Route 6 and a railway track on Druze lands in the Jezreel Valley. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/my-state-is-giving-up-on-me-1.300265 By Rafik Halabi The expropriation of Druze lands in the Jezreel Valley keeps coming up. The state is planning to lay a gas pipeline, Route 6 and a railway track on these […]

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http://www.haaretz.com/magazine/anglo-file/beit-shemesh-anglos-reject-zionist-take-on-shale-oil-project-by-steinhardt-1.300876 By Cnaan Liphshiz Immigrants from the Beit Shemesh area voiced strong objection this week to what they term the “use of Zionist rhetoric” by Jewish American businessman Michael Steinhardt to promote a controversial oil extraction project in the area. Steinhardt’s Israeli associates said Zionism was the only reason he was involved in the project. […]

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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=116880#axzz0tBrP8XoM CAIRO: Wind turbine firm Zephyr is close to a deal with an Egyptian mobile firm to bolster network coverage for tourists, whose roaming rates offer a lucrative market, and trim remote area operating costs, executives said. The privately owned Japan-based company, whose clients include Vodafone and Turkcell, hopes windswept areas along the Red Sea […]

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By RON FRIEDMAN http://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/Health/Article.aspx?id=180911 Employee used position, access to ministry computers to produce fake permits. Police arrested an employee at the Agriculture Ministry on Thursday on suspicion of selling fake permits to purchase a controlled chemical pesticide. The suspect, Uri Haim, allegedly sold permits to farmers that allowed them to buy 67 tons of a […]

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http://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/ScienceAndEnvironment/Article.aspx?id=180795 By LAHAV HARKOV Naval police led a coal ship to its dock in Hadera on Thursday, after local Greenpeace activists attempted to prevent it from entering Israel. Group members from Israel and Germany approached the Orient Venus, which had made its way from South Africa to Israeli territorial waters near Hadera, with a rubber […]

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West Bank city sees a future in recycling: Nablus is at the heart of a Palestinian movement to promote biodiversity and self-sufficiency. By Daniella Cheslow July 4, 2010 10:17 http://web1.globalpost.com/dispatch/israel-and-palestine/100419/nablus-palestinian-west-bank-israel-recycling?page=0,1 NABLUS, West Bank — When Nablus city councilman Hafez Shaheen took office in 2005, he struggled to maintain basic urban functions like electricity and water as […]

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http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=180642 By EHUD ZION WALDOKS Research into how Mediterranean and Red seas affected by global warming. Global warming is heating up the oceans and making them more acidic. How will these changes affect the coral reefs in the Mediterranean and Red Seas? Bar-Ilan University researcher Prof. Zvy Dubinsky just launched a €3-million, five year project […]

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