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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

oil shale

Oil shale rock burns on its own once lit with a blow torch. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
May 31, 2021, 9:21 pm
Planning committee greenlights next stage of oil shale and plastic waste factory
Ignoring pleas from environmental groups to cancel plans, committee members approve Environment Ministry terms for an impact survey to include climate costs
By Sue Surkes
Oil shale rock burns on its own once lit with a blow torch. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
May 8, 2020, 4:18 pm
Overruling Environment Ministry, planners advance contentious oil shale project
Rotem Energy Mineral Partnership given go ahead to order environmental survey for plan to mine shale oil in southern Israel, and heat it with plastic waste to create oil, power
By Sue Surkes
The Centenario deep-water drilling platform stands off the coast of Veracruz, Mexico, in the Gulf of Mexico, November 22, 2013. (AP/Dario Lopez-Mills)
April 13, 2020, 2:35 am
OPEC, oil nations agree to nearly 10m. barrel cut amid pandemic, price war
Leading suppliers to drop global crude output by 10% to boost cratering demand as Saudi-Russia feud, coronavirus batter markets
By Jon Gambrell
Rotem Amfert factories in the Negev. (Screenshot)
February 18, 2020, 6:36 pm
In win for environment, Israel won’t issue new oil shale exploration permits
Energy Ministry says it will not renew ICL Rotem Amfert license and will require 2 other oil shale projects to comply with environmental criteria
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative photo of an oil rig (photo credit: Dwight Burdette/Wikimedia Commons/File)
September 18, 2014, 9:27 pm
Israel’s oil wars shift to the Golan Heights
Environmentalists made headlines two weeks ago when they blocked a controversial oil shale pilot project in the Shfela; largely unnoticed, the same US parent company has won approval for exploratory drilling up north
By Melanie Lidman
Jeffrey Levine, the new president of the JNF. (photo credit: courtesy image)
March 9, 2014, 6:00 am
For JNF president, time is right to build on sand
Jeffrey Levine, on his 1st visit to Israel since taking the reins 6 months ago, touts Negev projects and JNF treatment of Bedouin
By Debra Kamin
Illustrative photo of oil shale rock, which burns on its own once lit with a blow torch. ( Monday, Aug. 15, 2005, in Sandy, Utah
September 8, 2013, 3:06 pm
Should Israel get oil out of Vinegar, for an energy revolution?
The Holy Land sits on the world’s second-largest deposits of oil shale. Advocates say its extraction will be safe and could transform the economy. Opponents say the environmental fallout could be disastrous
By David Horovitz
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