Hadera power plant chimneys/Reuven Castro
The mayor of Hadera, Nir Ben Haim, joins the demand of Elad Pinchas, head of the planning division in the Ministry of Environmental Protection, to cancel the discussion expected on Monday in Tel Aviv in order to promote two more power plants, including an OPC station in Hadera. The discussion, mysteriously scheduled for next Monday takes place contrary to government decision 586 that was received as part of a discussion on the construction of power plants for electricity production.
According to the aforementioned decision that discussed the construction of 4 power plants, the OPC station in Hadera and another station in the Kesem area should not be built. "The decision of the government, which is the supreme planning institution for this matter, was clarified As stated in the discussion of May 28, 2023 and within the framework of Resolution 586, the planning of these stations should not be approved.
The decision of the supreme planning institution, the government, must be accepted, and the above-mentioned plans must be brought up for further discussion in Tel, whose purpose is one, to uphold the government's decision, that is, to close the plan," Ben Haim wrote in a letter he sent to Natan Alantan, chairman of the National Planning Council.
As mentioned, this demand of the mayor of Hadera comes after the director of the planning division in the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Elad Pinhas, raised another reservation for the promotion of the plan.
According to him, the Electricity Authority and the company managing the construction of the power plant did not transfer data as required of them in order to hold another discussion on the plan, so in fact there is nothing new and he claimed that there is no reason to hold the discussion on Monday.
"Promoting a harmful decision, contrary to a clear government decision"
"The System Management Company (SMC) and the Electricity Authority were asked to hand over to the government in writing documents detailing the electricity production needs for the next decade.
As of the writing of these lines, the Electricity Authority and NGA have not yet submitted documents detailing the needs of electricity production, so that we will not have an information base to hold the repeated discussion of the plans. Therefore, I would like to postpone the discussion until we receive the materials from the Electricity Authority and NGA, as requested by "The committee," Elad Pinchas wrote this week to the Chairman of the Planning Council.
At the same time, the mayor of Hadera raises doubts in the face of the forces working to build polluting power plants, while there are much cleaner possibilities for electricity production. in fossil fuel.
Promoting a harmful decision, as opposed to a government decision that is clear and lacks data as required, presents a worrying picture in which someone is trying to push the construction of two unnecessary power plants," says Nir Ben Haim, mayor of Hadera.
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