This week, the Environmental Protection Ministry vetoed plans for a pipeline linking the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. The proposed 110 mile conduit linking would pump much needed recycled water into the rapidly shrinking Dead Sea to help raise water levels. “With no action, the sea level is expected to drop by another 150 meters until it will stabilize as a much smaller water body at a level of about 543 meters below sea level by the mid-22nd century," the World Bank’s January 2013 report …More

An Islamist terror group operating in the Sinai claimed responsibility for firing rockets into southern Israel. The Salafi Front, along with saying it fired rockets into Eilat on Wednesday night, also claimed responsibility for more than a dozen attacks on the gas pipeline between Egypt and Israel. Israeli security forces on Thursday resumed the search for the cause of the two loud explosions in Eilat that were believed to have been caused by long-range Grad rockets fired from the Sinai. No reports of injuries …More

Last week, Ampal-American Israel Corp. wrote off the entire value of its stake in East Mediterranean Gas, the company that sold Egyptian natural gas to Israel before Cairo ended the deal. Since Egypts’ revolution, the pipeline supplying Israel with gas has been attacked more than a dozen times. Last month, EGAS announced that it was rescinding its gas contract with Israel. Ampal is now writing off the full 12.5 percent stake in EMG, acquired in several stages for about $300 million, based on an estimated …More

Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel was attacked for the 12th time in a year. Sunday's attack near El Arish in the northern Sinai Peninsula came after masked gunmen planted explosives under the pipeline, security officials told the French news agency AFP. The pipeline also supplies gas to Jordan. Gas delivery was halted after the attack. The supply of gas to Israel has been halted numerous times in the last year, leading to a scramble to find alternate fuel sources to produce electricity, which are more …More

Israel has offered to export natural gas to India, according to a report in the Indian Economic Times last week. Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz allegedly made the offer during his visit to India. Negotiations are expected to intensify when India’s foreign minister visits Israel in January. India intends to research the possibility of a gas deal, and will probably send delegates to meet with officials in the Prime Minister's Office, the Finance Ministry, and the Energy and Water Ministry in …More

The pipeline supplying Israel and Jordan with Egyptian natural gas blew up on Monday during an act of sabotage, according to witnesses and security sources. The attack occurred a few hours before the country holds its first election since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February. The explosion occurred west of El-Arish in Sinai, and was followed by a second blast, 330 feet away. A third planted charge did not detonate. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but tracks from two vehicles were …More

Remote controlled bombs blew up a gas pipeline between Egypt and Israel, stopping its flow into the Jewish state. The first explosion occurred near the town of Al-Arish. While this is the seventh attack of this kind this year, it is the first since the pipeline resumed its pumping on October 24. "Primary examination showed that Improvised Explosive Devices were put under the pipeline and were detonated from a distance," a security source told Reuters, adding that the bombers “used two trucks and extended …More

Unknown assailants attacked a Gasco pipeline in northern Sinai, which supplies Israel and Jordan with Egyptian natural gas, in the sixth such attack since Mubarak was ousted in February. Tuesday morning, witnesses saw three men fire upon the pipeline outside the port town of El-Arish. A large explosion occurred, and flames leapt to almost 50 feet, igniting olive groves and shacks in the area. One man, suffering burns, was admitted to a local hospital to be treated. It is currently unknown how extensive the damage …More

An unidentified terrorist cell blew up the gas pipeline leading from Egypt to Israel and Jordan Monday, Egyptian security sources said, forcing a shutdown in the flow of natural gas for the third time since February. The explosion took place in the early morning at a station along the pipeline in the northern Sinai Peninsula at Bir Abd, 60 kilometers east of the Suez Canal, the sources said. National Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau said the suspension of gas deliveries would not affect the economy right …More