Yesterday (Wednesday, 17.4), just after the end of the cabinet meeting and just before the opening of the council meeting in Hadera, the mayor of Hadera, Nir Ben Haim, received direct updates from the ministers from the cabinet meeting, and was informed that the initiative to build the OPC2 power plant in Hadera has been canceled. Unlike the decision from May 2023, this time it is a permanent decision. The meaning: the issue will not come up for discussion again.
We will recall that the mayor led the organization of mayors and councils in the entire region, in cooperation with the Sharon Carmel Association of Cities for the Environment, against the plan to establish an OPC2 station in Hadera. The efforts moved to the political table, when Ben Haim and his deputy, Shlomo Bouzaglo, put heavy pressure on government officials to cancel the plan to establish the station in Hadera.
About two weeks ago, Ben Haim met with Energy Minister Eli Cohen at a conference in Eilat and received an express promise that the decision would not go through the government. Bozaglu received a similar promise from the Minister of Transportation, Miri Regev, and the Minister of Environmental Protection, Idit Silman, promised the mayor and his deputy that she would strongly oppose the construction of the station in her room.
"The quality of life of the residents of Hadera and the region is not the desert"
Ben Haim: "The quality of life of the residents of Hadera and the area is not desolate. We are in the midst of difficult struggles against the Hotal and the Hotal in several arenas, and I am happy that the government ministers realized that Hadera is not the backyard of the State of Israel! There is no room for another power plant in the city , and I thank the ministers and especially Eli Cohen, Miri Regev and Idit Silman, for their mobilization in the struggle for the benefit of the residents of Hadera."
"In such a complex and difficult time, we will embrace any good news of this kind and will continue to fight on all fronts also on the other issues that are important to the quality of life of the city's residents and the entire region," concludes Ben Haim.