Jordan said Monday it had chosen five international consortiums to build the first phase of a multi-million-dollar canal linking the Red Sea to the shrinking Dead Sea.
Jordan signed an agreement Saturday with a United Arab Emirates (UAE) company to build a 200-megawatt photovoltaic plant, the largest solar plant in Jordan, said a statement from Jordan's Ministry of Energy.
Jordan on Saturday said its first nuclear power reactor will be ready by 2025 to meet rising demand for electricity, the state-run Petra news agency reported.
Jordan said Sunday it is incapable of servicing Syrian refugees without support from the international community, reported the state-run Petra news agency.
Jordan signed a 30 million euros soft loan agreement with the German
Development Bank to finance water projects, the state-run Petra news
agency reported.
Thick desert dust affecting Cyprus for a second day forced the cancellation of landings at Larnaca airport on the southeastern shores of the island, an official said on Tuesday.
On the Dead Sea's coast in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers, Palestinians and tourists make the downhill trek from the former waterline to its new resting place.
Jordan said Monday that it was taking all necessary measures to face the unprecedented heat wave which caused power cuts countrywide and the closure of several major highways.
The crude oil spill in the Arava Desert, southern Israel, is 'twice as bad as initially estimated,' according to the Israeli Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company....
"The volume of crude oil that spilled into the Arava Desert last week is 60 percent larger than the amount that was originally reported, the company responsible for the pipeline acknowledged on Sunday night," Haaretz, the Israeli news agency reported.
An oil pipeline rupture has caused
thousands of cubic metres of crude oil to spill into the Arava desert in
southern Israel near the border with Jordan, officials said Thursday
(Dec 4).The incident took place just north of the Red Sea resort
city of Eilat and 500m from the frontier.
The spill was "a couple of
kilometres long", according to an Israeli environment ministry
spokeswoman who was unable to give more specific information.
REUTERS - Israel will sign a deal to supply natural gas from its Leviathan field to Jordan for 15 years, Israeli Energy Minister Silvan Shalom said on Wednesday.
Shalom said the agreement comes after many meetings with Jordanian officials but gave no other details.
An industry official who asked not to be identified said the deal was worth about $15 billion.
Jordan's cabinet on Sunday approved an agreement to build a mega oil
shale power plant in the Kingdom, Jordan's energy minister Mohammad
Hamed said.
"The agreement will be signed between the Jordanian
government and an international Estonian-Malaysian consortium within two
weeks, and it's the first of its kind in the region," the minister
said.
Jordan has over 40 billion tons of oil shale in reserves
and the 2.4-billion-US dollar power plant will produce electricity
through direct oil shale burning, the minister said.
Rare snowfall in the north-west of Saudi Arabia on Sunday drew local
residents and visitors to scenic mountainous areas to enjoy the
spectacle. Snow fell intermittently from dawn in the city of Tabuk near the
Jordanian border, coating nearby mountains and roads with a sheet of
white.
An "historic" agreement between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians is supposed to save the shrinking Dead Sea. But some environmentalists believe the plan to pump water from the Red Sea could do the salt lake more harm than good.
Even as it shrinks in size, the Dead Sea, a turquoise blue shimmering
salt lake, remains a mystical place. Boat jetties jut out into
nothingness, abandoned as the water has retreated further and further;
each year the level dropping by a meter. The Dead Sea is dwindling to
nothing, deprived of water by humans.
AFP - Representatives of Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians
will on Monday sign a "historic" agreement to link the Red Sea with the
shrinking Dead Sea, an Israeli minister said. Energy and Regional Development Minister Silvan Shalom told army
radio that under the agreement to be signed at the World Bank in
Washington, water will be drawn from the Gulf of Aqaba at the northern
end of the Red Sea. Some will be desalinated and distributed to Israel, Jordan and the
Palestinians, while the rest will be transferred in four pipes to the
parched Dead Sea, which would otherwise dry out by 2050.