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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

EAPC Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company

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
An anemone at the underwater observatory marine park, Coral Beach, Eilat, May 29, 2009. (Anna Kaplan/ Flash90)
May 16, 2024, 3:02 pm
Environment ministry rejects bid by PM’s office to increase oil activity in Eilat
Ministry rebuffs request to dump policy aimed at protecting Red Sea corals, marine ecosystems, a move that could earn state company an annual $50 million more
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
Corals growing on construction piles in the port of Eilat. (Israel Nature and Parks Eilat District Ecologist, Dr Assaf Zvuloni)
June 13, 2022, 1:25 am
State-owned pipeline to pay NIS 250,000 for damaging corals, won’t admit liability
Court approves settlement deal between EAPC and parks authority for damage caused in 2016 to over 2,600 corals and other creatures in Red Sea
By Sue Surkes
The Zin stream in southern Israel at sunset, on June 23, 2017. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
April 26, 2022, 4:47 pm
State-owned pipeline fined NIS 1.6 million over 2011 spills in Zin stream
Several former senior officials at Europe Asia Pipeline Company also hit with fines over pair of incidents that badly polluted seasonal river in southern Israel
By ToI Staff and 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
The Zin stream in southern Israel at sunset, on June 23, 2017. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
February 15, 2022, 7:40 pm
State owned pipeline, former executives, convicted over Zin Stream pollution
Environmental Protection Ministry, which brought criminal case, and environmental organizations, welcome judgment and imposition of personal responsibility on senior staff
By Sue Surkes
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)
December 30, 2021, 1:19 pm
Environment minister says oil deal with UAE ‘cannot be realized’
Tamar Zandberg tells Army Radio that the number of oil tankers allowed to dock at the Eilat port will not be increased, effectively killing the deal
By Tia Goldenberg
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
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)
November 30, 2021, 2:32 am
Firm behind disputed UAE-Eilat oil pipeline: Ministries don’t have right to see deal
Europe Asia Pipeline Company, whose contentious oil deal with an Israel-UAE consortium has not been seen by any government ministry, tells Knesset committee it’s just following law
By Sue Surkes
Men row on standup paddle boards in the Red Sea waters near the Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company's oil terminal by Israel's southern port city of Eilat, on February 9, 2021. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
November 4, 2021, 8:10 pm
Ministry blocks UAE pipeline deal over worries of leaks near Eilat
State-owned Europe Asia Pipeline Company reportedly plans to fight decision after Environmental Protection Ministry refuses permits needed to ramp-up use of Red Sea terminal
By ToI Staff
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
An oil tanker docks at the Europe Asia Pipeline Company port in Eilat in southern Israel, on May 4, 2021. (Shmulik Taggar)
September 27, 2021, 9:42 am
Environment Ministry limits tankers allowed into Eilat under UAE pipeline deal
Marine Protection Unit says state pipeline company continues to disregard environmental concerns, presents inadequate risk survey for second time
By Sue Surkes
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