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Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel s environment reporter.
View of Haifa s oil refineries and other industrial areas, on May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)
A top-level committee of officials set up within the Prime Minister’s Office recommended on Monday the closure “as soon as possible, and within no more than a decade,” of the polluting Bazan Group Oil Refineries in northern Israel’s Haifa Bay and its oil storage complex in nearby Kiryat Haim, as well as the transfer of Haifa Chemicals, a fertilizer plant, from there to the Negev desert in the south.
It issued its “draft government strategic plan” for public comment, before formally advising the government. It said that the closure of the plants had to be conditioned on maintaining the country’s energy security.
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Apr. 26, 2021 9:16 PM
A committee of Israeli ministry director generals announced its recommendation on Monday to close the oil refineries in the Haifa Bay area within a decade, and to replace the products they make with foreign imports. The committee also recommended that a fertilizer factory in the Haifa Bay area be moved to the Negev, and that the oil terminal in the Haifa Bay suburb of Kiryat Haim be closed.
However, environmental activists are concerned that the lack of a timetable for implementation of the recommendations weakens them.
The government recommendation comes after a prolonged fight by environmental groups and residents of the Haifa Bay against the presence of petrochemical industries in the region, which they say is harmful to health. Research has linked pollution with excess mortality and morbidity. In recent years, concerns about the climate crisis have intensified calls to close down the factorie
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Apr. 23, 2021 6:04 AM
More than two months have passed since the severe oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea, which caused great damage to the offshore waters and the coasts of Israel and Lebanon. The washing ashore of lumps of tar is considered one of the major ecological disasters in Israel’s history. Those who purportedly bore direct guilt for the disaster were marked.
The Environmental Protection Ministry announced that the oil was ejected into the water from the Emerald, a pirate oil tanker of Libyan ownership, which had set out from the Persian Gulf. Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel went so far as to declare that the incident was a case of “ecological terrorism,” an act originating in Iran that targeted Israel.
At Biden s summit, PM pledges to move Israel to renewable energy by 2050
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