"Israel" Fears Ammonia Disaster: Plant to Be removed from Haifa

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Peretz said on Thursday that he had visited the ammonia container and heard explanations by its owners that were meant to calm "Israelis" over the threat, "but I suggest not to engage in public relations and rather to work for the removal of the plant as soon as possible."

"Everyone involved should realize that time is short and the work is plentiful. There's no reason that justifies the continuation of this dangerous situation and today more than ever we have the opportunity to do so, due to the natural gas flowing to "Israel"," he added.

Channel 2 News reported that the Ministry of the Environment has already notified the Haifa Chemicals company, which owns the plant, that the plant will be shut down by 2017, unless an ammonia production plant is built in southern the Zionist entity before then.

Earlier on Thursday, Peretz's predecessor in the Environment Ministry, Minister Gilad Erdan, appealed for emergency funding from the Treasury for the removal of the ammonia plant.
"It's a ticking time bomb," Erdan said. "We must do something immediately if we want to avoid a scene like the one in Texas.
Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav also renewed calls on Thursday to remove the ammonia plant.

Yahav, said that "the disaster in Texas demonstrates the righteousness of the struggle that we are leading to remove the ammonia container from the heart of Haifa Bay, but the inscription has been engraved on the wall for years, in huge letters, and it says: 'Danger!'"

Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org