By Avi Bar-Eli http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/isramco-may-have-gas-find-wonders-who-will-buy-it-1.299548 Oil and gas exploration partnerships controlled by Jacob Maimon may have found yet more gas in the Mediterranean seabed. However, it may not be worth the companies’ effort to find out any more about what they might have discovered. Isramco and other Maimon partnerships yesterday reported the results of a three-dimensional […]

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By Nurit Roth http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/actions-against-neviot-mei-eden-allege-carcinogens-in-water-jugs-1.299543 Two identical lawsuits were filed Tuesday against mineral water bottlers Mayanot Eden, which markets the Mei Eden brand, and Neviot. Both suits, each of which seeks NIS 32 billion in damages, were submitted to the Tel Aviv District Court. The plaintiffs asked the court to certify the suits as class actions. […]

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Friday, July 02, 2010 http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=116627#axzz0siWMRqVB BEIRUT: The first workshop on renewable energy was launched in Beirut Thursday under the patronage of Environment Minister Mohammad Rahhal. The workshop was dubbed “Renewable Energy & Environment: a knowledge based Development initiative” and was organized by the Lebanese nongovernmental group Young Men’s Christian Association. It was funded by the […]

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By Laila Azzeh http://www.jordantimes.com/index.php?news=27919 AMMAN – For the next three months, young Jordanians across the country will debate water policies and issues as part of a new awareness campaign. The Kingdom’s water resources will be at the centre of a nationwide debate competition organised by the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the Princess […]

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http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=27862 TANGIERS, Morocco (AFP) – Morocco’s King Mohammad VI inaugurated Monday a 250-million-euro ($300 million) wind farm near Tangiers, which an official source said was the biggest in Africa. The new wind, farm, which cost some $300 million, is located in Melloussa, 34 kilometres from Tangiers in northern Morocco and has 165 turbines, with a […]

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Tuesday, June 29, 2010 http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=116504#axzz0sF4pgfST BEIRUT: Lebanon is accelerating efforts to introduce a new energy law, Lebanese officials said on Monday, in response to Israeli plans to drill for gas in Mediterranean waters. The discovery of major gas reserves by a US-Israeli consortium off the coast of Israel has raised fears in Lebanon that its […]

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By EHUD ZION WALDOKS 06/25/2010 18:33 No new Israeli photovoltaic (PV) technology is ready for deployment yet. http://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/ScienceAndEnvironment/Article.aspx?id=179388 Being an alternative energy technology company is rough going these days. Renewable energy power plants, especially solar ones, are extremely capital intensive. Without government support for extended periods of R&D, some companies are scrambling for funds to […]

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By RON FRIEDMAN 06/25/2010 22:55 The residents of Zichron Ya’acov and its environs – vowing to use any means necessary and showing lots of chutzpa – have joined forces to battle the government and the newly empowered energy sector. http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=179445 Looking to the west from the top of a hill in Zichron Ya’acov, all you […]

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By Hana Namrouqa http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=27878 AMMAN – Health and environmental conditions in the northern village of Souf, home to several freshwater springs, will be improved under a project to revamp sewage services, a government official said on Monday. Under an agreement signed yesterday by the Water Authority of Jordan (WAJ) and USAID, an 8.5-kilometre sewage pipeline […]

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Gaza’s sole power plant, which provides 25 percent of its electricity, was forced to shut down over the weekend as a result of a payment dispute between Hamas and PA. http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/un-raps-palestinians-over-electricity-crisis-in-gaza-1.298584 The United Nations Relief Works Agency on Sunday urged Palestinians to stop in-fighting and resolve a deepening electricity “crisis” in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, […]

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By Hana Namrouqa http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=27885 AMMAN – Minister of Water and Irrigation Mohammad Najjar on Monday expressed optimism over the results of a recent trip to build international support for the Jordan Red Sea Project (JRSP). During his visit to the US last week, Najjar met with representatives from funding agencies, including the Overseas Private Investment […]

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Tuesday, June 29, 2010 http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=116508#axzz0sF3gkZ8J BRUSSELS: OPEC called Monday on the United States to reconsider a ban on new deep-water drilling that could hold back oil supplies – despite safety concerns in the wake of the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Abdalla Salem El Badri, secretary general of the 12-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting […]

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The Knesset is expected to look into the possibility that Israel Nature and Parks Authority guides at the Soreq Cave Nature Reserve are concealing the true age of the cavern’s stalactites, stalagmites. By Jonathan Lis http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/nature-guides-may-be-hiding-facts-to-avoid-offending-religious-hikers-1.298848 The Knesset is expected to look into the possibility that Israel Nature and Parks Authority guides at the Soreq […]

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Red Sea oil spill nothing new – Bikya Masr June 22nd, 2010 http://bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=13992 CAIRO: Watching the news pour out of Egypt over the oil slick that has already hit some 100 kilometers of beaches on the Eastern Red Sea coast is shocking. Where were they last summer when oil spilled out of an offshore oil […]

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Published: 22.6.2010 By Avi Bar-Eli Source: Haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/arava-power-leasing-land-from-bedouin-for-solar-fields-1.297570 Arava Power Company has signed deals leasing land from Bedouin in the Negev for the construction of three giant solar-power fields. The company has earmarked NIS 400 million for the photovoltaic projects, which are supposed to produce 20 megawatts. The company signed agreements with the Tarabin and […]

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By Hana Namrouqa http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=27618 AMMAN – The results of 11 surveys measuring Jordanians’ behaviours, practices and consumption patterns in the water, energy and solid waste sectors will be announced this week. The studies, carried out by the USAID-funded Public Action in Water, Energy and Environment Project, aim to analyse people’s behaviour in order to encourage […]

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By Taylor Luck http://www.jordantimes.com/index.php?news=27574 AMMAN – Jordanians think the Kingdom is generally liked abroad and are the least likely to make sacrifices to preserve the environment, according to a global public opinion survey released on Thursday. The Pew Research Centre Global Attitudes Survey, which polled 22 nations in subjects ranging from the economy and extremism […]

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By Agence France Presse (AFP) Saturday, June 19, 2010 http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=116159#axzz0rQ7rboPS PARIS: Environmental activists from the Sea Shepherd group said Friday they had “liberated” some 800 bluefin tuna that had been caught by what they described as poachers and were being towed by two fishing vessels off the coast of Libya. Five scuba divers on Thursday […]

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