L EAPC défend l accord avec les EAU: le risque de fuite de pétrole négligeable timesofisrael.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesofisrael.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel s environment reporter.
Israelis at a Red Sea beach near the Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company s (EAPC) oil terminal at Israel s southern port city of Eilat on February 10, 2021. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
The state-owned Europe Asia Pipeline Company on Monday dismissed concerns of opponents of its deal to pipe Gulf oil through Israel on the way to European markets, telling the High Court that a petition filed by green groups to declare the agreement invalid had “no factual foundation” and that a risk survey found the threat of environmental damage to be “negligible.”
In the petition, submitted in May, three green organizations charged that the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the EAPC with the United Arab Emirates in October should be made null and void given that it was neither discussed nor approved by the government, nor opened for consultation with experts and the public.
Water Authority greenlights extraction of 445 million cubic meters in coming year, up from 439 million cubic meters last year, to disappointment of environmentalists