An interministerial committee of directors-general is to be set up to discuss the future of the Haifa Bay and its heavy, polluting industry, Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agree, pending government approval.
The committee, to be headed by Prime Minister’s Office chief Ronen Peretz, will be instructed to submit its conclusions within 90 days. Its focus will be on the petrochemical factories.
“The disaster in Lebanon proves that there is no place for heavy industry in the heart of a metropolitan area,” Gamliel says.
Avi Simhon, head of the National Economic Council, which advises the prime minister, said in June that the Bazan oil refineries that have long polluted the coastal city of Haifa, and largely defined its skyline, must be shut down within five years and replaced with a modern, green high-tech and residential hub.
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