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8 lawmakers accuse Finance Ministry director of ignoring High Court ruling that Environmental Protection Ministry has right to prevent further risk in coral-rich Gulf of Eilat
Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel's environment reporter. A satellite image of Israel and Gaza's southern Mediterranean coast taken by the EU's Sentinel 1 on February 12, 2021. (screen capture) The head of the company that helped Israel pinpoint a vessel it says is responsible for spilling oil that wound up polluting the country’s beaches is calling on Jerusalem to significantly bolster its monitoring capabilities, or risk being stricken again. “Until Israel, like every other country that respects its oceans, has the ability to monitor daily for oil spills and to find the perpetrators, th...
Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel's environment reporter. A fuel tank owned by a Europe Asia Pipeline Company factory just outside of the southern city of Ashkelon, where a fuel leak occurred in late November 2020. (Environmental Protection Ministry) The Environmental Protection Ministry announced Monday that it had opened a criminal investigation into a fuel leak late last year from a tank owned by the state-owned Europe Asia Pipeline Company Ltd. The investigation comes as the EAPC is set to significantly expand its activities, amid concerns over the secretive firm’s safety record, six ye...
550 shares Over 200 scientists from Israel and around the world are imploring the government to halt plans to turn an aging pipeline into a major means of transporting crude oil from the Persian Gulf to Southern Europe, citing concerns about the risk of an environmental disaster, which could decimate Israel’s renowned coral reefs. “One ‘small’ malfunction or damage in one of these tankers is enough to cause a major environmental disaster,” write the signatories of a letter sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ministries of Finance and Environmental Protection on M...