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Mideast conflict slows Dead Sea rescue
Associated Press
Published: 05.05.07, 23:23
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1. WHY DID JORDAN HAVE TO ERECT A POTASH PLANT IN THE 1980'S
THE ENGINEER   (05.06.07)
IS THE QUESTION WE NEED TO ASK. PRIOR TO THIS THERE WERE NO PROBLEMS IN THE AREA. THE DEAD SEA WORKS AT SEDOM, ORIGINALLY THE PALESTINE POTASH WORKS, WERE ERECTED IN THE 1920/30 PERIOD. DUE TO THE LEBANESE ENGINEER FROM THE BEKA VALLEY, YACOB JACOBS WHO FOUNDED JACOBS ENGINEERING INC IN THE USA WHOSE CROWNING GLORY WAS THIS PROJECT, THE JORDANIANS WERE ENCOURAGED TO BUILD THE PLANT ON THE EASTERN SHORES. JACOBS ALSO BUILT THE ACID PLANTS SOUTH OF AQABA WHOSE ACRID FUMES DRIFT OVER EILAT - TALK ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS!
2. It is the shortsightedness and greed on the...
Adam Adamati ,   Israel   (05.06.07)
Israeli side of the border. Decades of feasibility studies and dire warnings are of no interest to puny decision-makers who are only looking for a way to personally profit. If not for the histadrut, this project could be a public works project like the USA's WPA. Alas, it could never happen in shortsighted Israel.
3. Square headed Palestinian leadership
Daniel ,   Israel   (05.06.07)
Square headed Palestinian Government will kill now alive "Dead Sea". Palestinian citizens should take initiative in such projects. You will get water to drink. Think; in very near future we shall all face water shortage. And if brains are used we can have cheaper electricity too. In spite of all your Arab oil; this area is having highest cost to pay for electricity! Peace for both sides will immerge from such regional co-operation.
4. Med-Dead vs. Red-Dead
Yaakov ,   Beit Shemesh   (05.07.07)
It's noted in the article that the 50-mile Med-Dead pipeline (which would also produce about 2000 Megawatts of hydroelectric power each year), was rejected because it was more expensive than the 125-mile underground Read-Ded pipeline. Since it doesn't sound logical that the Med pipeline is a worse deal, why doesn't the article above bring the numbers to substantiate the rejection? It is a question that begs to be answered - which friends of the decision-makers figure to profit from Red-Dead?
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