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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

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An aerial view of the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's (EAPC) oil terminal at Israel's southern Red Sea port city of Eilat, February 9, 2021. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
August 22, 2024, 10:51 am
Environmental groups hail decision to back down on increasing oil imports
PM, ministers agree to pause move that would have allowed more crude oil to enter Israel via southern port of Eilat, despite pressure from state-owned Europe Asia Pipeline Company
By Sue Surkes
Nothing grows along a watercourse at Evrona Nature Reserve in southern Israel, where soil was contaminated by a 2014 leak of crude oil (see the dark patches beneath the soil crust), February 14, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
February 27, 2024, 4:37 pm
Nature authority to remove 30,000 cubic meters of oil-soaked soil at southern reserve
Move follows years of post-spill research and failure of other methods to draw out crude oil that flooded out of broken pipe into Evrona Nature Reserve near Eilat in 2014
By Sue Surkes
The massive oil leak in the Evrona nature reserve in 2014. ((Environmental Protection Ministry)
February 9, 2024, 12:25 pm
State oil conglomerate fined NIS 1.5 million for massive leak in nature reserve
Two employees of Europe Asia Pipeline Company also handed small fines; CEO of environmental lobby says punishments ‘a mockery,’ urges state prosecution to demand jail time
By Sue Surkes
Israelis at a Red Sea beach close to the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's oil terminal in Eilat, southern Israel, February 10, 2021. (Menaham Kahana/AFP)
January 25, 2024, 2:12 am
Over 380 objections filed against bid to extend secrecy for state oil group by 4 years
Just a year ago Knesset rejected similar Finance Ministry plan; conglomerate was formed amid clandestine dealings with pre-revolution Iran, but unclear why secrecy still justified
By Sue Surkes
An oil tanker docked at the Europe-Asia Pipeline Company's port in Eilat from May 28 to 30, 2023. (Courtesy, Zalul)
July 27, 2023, 8:08 am
Green groups gear up for fight as oil pipeline looks to pump up Eilat operations
Secretive state company said to be pressuring ministries, Prime Minister’s Office to more than double quota of crude that can be transferred via Red Sea terminal
By Sue Surkes
In this satellite photo by Planet Labs PBC, the oil tankers the Oceania, center left, and the Abyss, center right, are seen in the Malacca Strait between Indonesia and Malaysia on March 28, 2023. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
March 29, 2023, 10:05 pm
Oil tanker owned by US-traded firm allegedly hauling Iranian oil in sanctions breach
Euronav vows to return shipment ‘to the third party who delivered it’ if cargo determined to be oil from Iran, as satellite images show potential ship-to-ship transfer
By Jon Gambrell
The Europe Asia Pipeline Company's oil boom in Eilat, designed to catch any potential oil spill before it leaks more broadly into the sea. (Courtesy EAPC)
February 14, 2023, 5:23 pm
Knesset committee agrees to extend secrecy for oil conglomerate for one year only
Decision is a win for environmental and civil society groups; a blow to the cabinet, which asked for a five year-extension for companies that once did business with the shah’s Iran
By Sue Surkes
View of the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's oil terminal in the southern city of Eilat, January 14, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
January 29, 2023, 9:47 pm
Cabinet extends secrecy for state-owned oil infrastructure firms, despite objections
Decision, if approved by Knesset, will keep public in dark about the activities of three companies originally linked to deal with Iranian shah
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative image of a car being refueled at a gas station, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
July 31, 2022, 12:29 pm
Gas prices to drop significantly at midnight due to tax breaks, lower price of oil
As of Monday, Israelis will pay an estimated NIS 6.54 per liter of gasoline, down from NIS 8.08; newest tax discount limited to month of August
By Tobias Siegal
This screenshot from undated footage released by Strategy & Government Communications of Dubai, shows the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, about 50 kilometres south of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Strategy & Government Communications of Dubai via AP)
March 29, 2022, 5:06 am
UAE aims to go green while continuing to produce oil
Kingdom’s climate envoy tells UN confab that fossil fuel phaseout ‘cannot be rushed,’ that oil will still be needed in future, and that UAE can produce it with low carbon emissions
By Sue Surkes
Protesting against the expansion of activity at the EAPC oil port in Eilat, southern Israel, on February 10, 2021. (Egor Iggy Petrenko/Coast Patrol)
February 21, 2022, 1:11 am
MKs fume over Treasury chief’s call to review gov’t policy opposing Eilat oil deal
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
By Sue Surkes
Former Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg is flanked by some of the many opponents to the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's deal to transfer Gulf oil, outside the High Court in Jerusalem, on December 23, 2021. (Dov Greenblat, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
December 23, 2021, 7:17 pm
Green groups claim victory, withdraw court petition against Eilat oil deal
Move follows state attorney’s opinion that the Environmental Protection Ministry had full authority to act against the agreement
By Sue Surkes
A view of the oil leak in the Arava area of southern Israel, on December 9, 2014 (Environmental Protection Ministry)
November 2, 2021, 5:33 pm
State-owned company, 4 executives indicted over massive 2014 desert oil spill
Prosecutors blame the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company and its officials for ‘one of the biggest incidents of ecological damage the country has ever seen’
By ToI Staff
Israelis at a Red Sea beach close to the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's oil terminal in Eilat, southern Israel, February 10, 2021. (Menaham Kahana/AFP)
October 22, 2021, 12:33 pm
UAE says nixing pipeline agreement won’t damage ties with Israel
Contradicting company’s claim, senior official says deal to ship Gulf crude to Europe overland via Israel — opposed by environmentalists — has nothing to do with Emirati government
By Sue Surkes
Protesters against an oil deal with an Israeli -UAE consortium demonstrate outside Foreign Minister Yair Lapid's house in Ramat Aviv on September 25, 2021. (Coalition Against the EAPC deal)
September 26, 2021, 10:51 pm
Israelis take to streets, bridges to protest secret UAE oil deal
FM Lapid, outside whose home some of the protesters gather, pledges ‘thorough, deep, serious examination’ by government before decision on future of agreement
By Sue Surkes
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