Israel’s National Infrastructure Committee would like to exempt the Europe Asia Pipeline Company, Ashkelon Pipeline, from carrying out the usual environmental impact survey of its installation in Ashkelon.
The pipeline company operates two oil ports and two oil terminals with a storage capacity of 3.7 million cubic metres for crude oil and petroleum products.
The Association of Cities for the Environment called on the committee to require an environmental survey and noted that it was necessary considering the number of environmental concerns over the pipeline in the past years.
Meital Amitay, the association’s director, said: “The Europe Asia Pipeline Company had never been required to prepare an environmental impact survey of their activities. It is therefore insufficient.”
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