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Environmental activists protest oil tanker’s arrival at Eilat port
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSue Surkes is The Times of Israel's environment reporter
Activists from the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and the Gulf of Eilat Rangers protest the arrival of an oil tanker in the southern Red Sea city of Eilat.
The protest forms part of a long-running attempt by green and civil society organizations and the Environmental Protection Ministry to halt the import of oil by the state Europe Asia Pipeline Company through the ecologically sensitive Gulf of Eilat.
The EAPC is using the courts to fight the Environmental Protection Ministry, which has asserted its right to set a “zero additional risk” policy that is blocking a controversial oil deal.
That deal was signed between the EAPC and an Israeli-Emirati business consortium called MED-RED Land Bridge.
A memorandum of understanding, inked in 2020, allowed the EAPC to receive Gulf oil at its Eilat port and transport it via above-ground pipes to Ashkelon, where it will be reloaded onto tankers bound for Europe.
The Times of Israel Community.