Clean Air

Clean Air Campaign

Posted Sat, 07/04/2009 by admin

For years, factories in Haifa’s port have been polluting the air, raising cancer and cardiac ailments levels 23% above the nationwide average.

Green Course's campaign for clean air in Haifa’s industrial port area emerges as major project.

Efforts have aided in raising public awareness of the issue and helped raise forceful demands to the municipality. Green Course both monitors the activity of the local municipality and has begun working with the Ministry of Environmental Protection in urging it to tighten regulation and is helping prepare for the upcoming Clean Air legislation to become effective in 2011.

Productive Protest at Metals Factory

Posted Sun, 11/29/2009

By Avidan Waldman

הפגנה מול מפעל חוד מתכות On November 22th, Green Course was involved in a protest at the Hod Assaf Metakot plant near Acre. The residents of Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk, located near the factory, joined with Green Course, and the Coalition for Public Heath to protest the lack of health regulations at the plant. The protest included groups of children with masks and signs to display the health problems in the Kibbutz. This was not the first protest or complaint made against the plant and comes as a result of plant workers and surrounding residents developing serious cancers and respiratory diseases. Israel Assouline, an employee of the plant, developed terminal malignant cancer from the toxins that were released from the plant. They found extremely high levels of lead in his blood. He died on October 11. As a result of the protest, a meeting is scheduled in the Knesset to discuss the issue.

Green Course says no to 3rd coal power plant

Posted Tue, 07/21/2009 by admin
Gil Ya'acov, Green Course Director, calls on the public to send in objections for third coal power plant in Ashkelon. Broadcasted on IBA News in English (Channel 1), July 15th, 2009.

Less Then 30 Days Left!

Posted Wed, 07/15/2009


Impact Israel's Environment: please take a minute to fill the short form, sign your name and send it to the address listed. Every single objection is of critical importance in preventing the building of another coal power plant!

 

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Haifa’s Air Quality

Posted Sun, 02/22/2009 by admin

By Ashley Oliva

When traveling to Haifa all you have to do is look out your window to see the sweeping views of the sea and once in the city you’re greeted to twisting roads and beautiful gardens.  Haifa is traditionally known for these serene landscapes and its very large industrial port.  Most plants are situated in the Haifa Bay area, which is the centrum of chemical and petrochemical heavy industries.  Over recent decades, and in particularly the last one, out of Israel’s environmental problems that need attending to, the heavy air pollution in Haifa is become of the most severe.

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