Hazardous materials in Haifa Bay

1. Pay attention to the sequence of warnings "from above": the auditor's report on the failures of the emergency systems regarding the fire in Carmel, the event in "Carmel Olpinim" that ended in a miracle, the ammonia event in Shoham that ended in luck... how many more inscriptions do we need on the wall? On Tuesday of this week, 26.6/2001, there was A discussion on the ammonia tank should be held at the district committee in Haifa. The discussion has been postponed without explanation. We will inform the public through "Hai-Fa" the residents' website, regarding the next date that will be set, we will be invited to demonstrate attendance at the discussion. Because it is clear that we will not allow the issue to be postponed indefinitely. It has already been postponed enough , from 2001. A reminder for those who have forgotten or are trying to forget: In XNUMX I was the only council member who voted against the permit for the tank. Council members who are in office to this day voted in favor of the permit: Deputy Mayor Hadva Almog and Rami Levy, and their friend Rami Dotan, chairman of the Association of Firefighters who received such severe criticism in the report on the fire. Even Yahav, who is trying to portray himself today as the leader of the fight against the tank, tried to reassure me: it is the most protected tank in the world.
   I corrected him immediately: this is the most threatened container in the world. And let's not forget the CEO of the municipality, who came out of his fence in favor of (!) the tank, and just forgot to reveal his family's business ties with Haifa Chemicals. Everything is documented, and will be presented if a defamation lawsuit is filed.

2. There is no doubt that disaster awaits.
   But even in disasters there are no culprits.
   Did anyone pay a price in the Carmel disaster? 40 dead, no one paid a price.
   Where are the state auditor's reports? Who is responsible for this failure?
   How can it be that after the Lebanon war with all the fires from falling rockets they did not start building a new fire station in Rumma?
   The station had to be ready together with the opening of the Carmel tunnels.
   If there had been a station on time, probably the Carmel disaster that went away a few months later would have been avoided because they would have arrived on time.
   And no one pays the price.
   There are no guilty parties, even when the gas tanks in the farm at the Kiryat Ata junction explode and a thousand people are killed in the Gulf, they will not be guilty.
   There will be a commission of inquiry, there will be a serious report, everyone will cry into microphones about the failure. But there will be no guilty parties.
   And two years later they will do a flower exhibition where they will not even mention the victims of the disaster in some symbolic display
   As they are already trying to eliminate any trace of the failure of the Carmel disaster.

3. Waiting for a national disaster!!!! What wonder? Not a single official responsible for the fire in Carmel moved from his warm and welcoming chair.
   How to discourage the owners????
   The Jewish state as a bag of fertilizer?????

4. An achievement for the greens

   The Knesset Committee for Interior Affairs and the Environment adopted their demand in yesterday's debate to carry out in the Haifa Bay
   An economic-environmental survey, which will present the balance of costs and benefits to the public, from concentration
   The factories in Haifa Bay.
   The committee met to discuss the report prepared on behalf of the public health coalition, by the scientists
   Prof. Nir Becker and Dr. Vared Ben-Shloma, in which for the first time they arrived at a comprehensive damage estimate in the case of
   A disaster in one or several of the factories. The committee also discussed the proposed solutions, but they are not
   applied, regarding the LPG (cooking gas) farms in the area.
   Architect Shmuel Galbhart, chairman of Haifa's Greens and member of the leadership of the Green Movement:
   This is a demand that we have been raising for years in the city council, and the city coalition rejects
   It is on the threshold under the guidance of Mayor Yona Yahav. And it's puzzling, since in his other roles
   who took it upon himself - Chairman of the Haifa Cities Association for Environmental Quality, Chairman of the Municipal Environmental Quality Committee,
   Haifa's representative in the local committee for Haifa Bay affairs, apparently should have been the first not only
   will support our proposal, but will even advance and initiate it before us. Unless, and this is unfortunately the case, a lesson
   Take on all the environmental duties, not in order to promote, but to paralyze them!
   Which explains why no representative from the Union of Cities for the Environment was present at the discussion, and why the monitoring committee
   After the reduction of greenhouse gases in the Haifa region, also under his leadership, budgeted at 10 thousand NIS per year...
   The damage to Haifa and the settlements surrounding the Gulf is not only in disaster situations, but is permanent: costs
   Hospitalization, loss of working days, flight of young families, missing out on higher quality branches of the economy, and more.
   A fact that the state of Tel Aviv Shihav is so jealous of, prospers even without a petrochemical industry, and leads
   In all economic parameters, Haifa leads only in morbidity and unemployment. After the survey we will know
   Once and for all if the petrochemical industry is economically a lifeline or a hanging rope...

   The chairman of the committee MK Dr. Dov Hanin proved, and not for the first time, that without being Haifai he is
   Understands Haifa's problems better than its leader. In his words, he also referred to the last, missing report
   A precedent in its severity, of the State Comptroller, and the wild reality he revealed in Haifa Bay.

   Galbhart added: Haifa's future will be decided on two issues - in the bay, and in the port. She is in both
   is on a collision course with the interests of controlling groups with interest and capital. and in both
   The municipality administration and its leader support... the other side!

5. The Ministry of Environmental Protection revoked the poison permits from the gas companies - Pazgaz, Amishergaz and Super Gas in the gas farm in Kiryat Ata
   The Minister of Environmental Protection: "The gas companies cannot continue to endanger the environment and the health of the residents with irresponsible and protracted conduct in regards to gas treatment"

   The Ministry of Environmental Protection refused the request to renew the poisons permit of the gas companies in the gas farm in Kiryat Ata, by virtue of the Hazardous Materials Law. This is due to non-compliance with the requirements placed on the gas companies in the poisons permit and the poor handling of the overhead gas tanks.
   The denial of the permit means that now the companies will not be able to engage in filling, transporting, storing and distributing condensed hydrocarbon gas (LPG) in the gas farms.

   The Minister of Environmental Protection: "The gas companies have been given sufficient time to prepare for the requirements of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and to ensure public health against the dangers of gas handling, but so far they have not done so. The decision not to renew the poison permits is a product of the policy that I put in place, to show zero tolerance towards pollutants and towards Those who endanger public health"
   background
   The gas farm in Kiryat Ata is a central LPG storage site for the Haifa region and the north, and approximately 2,400 tons of LPG gas are stored there. The farm is owned and operated by the three gas companies. The site includes overhead tanks for LPG storage, gas filling stations for road tankers, stations for filling mobile gas cylinders, and a parking lot for trucks and road tankers.

   
   Risks from the farm to the nearby population
   The professional position of the Ministry of Environmental Protection is that in order to reduce the risk of a possible hazardous materials incident in the container farm to an acceptable level of risk, the farm must be relocated, or the containers must be buried in a surface landfill, which involves protecting them with a concrete shell and a cover of sand and soil, and all in accordance with the requirements of the Home Front Command .
   At the time, this position was based on the conclusions of an integrative risk survey for Haifa Bay, the conclusions of which were adopted for implementation by the Israeli government in 2000. The integrative survey determined, among other things, that the gas farm creates a risk to its environment, and that the risk must be reduced by relocating the farm or by landfilling of the LPG storage tanks.
   It should be noted that this position was strengthened and substantiated by the conclusions of the Shafir Committee for examining the preparation and handling of hazardous materials in calm and emergencies, as well as by the planning institutions that examined the amendment to TMA 32 - a national outline plan for the LPG industry.
   In recent years, the ministry has been working to lead the gas companies to start the landfill procedure, but for various reasons, so far the gas companies have not started this procedure.

6. 
   Enough corruption!
   Shameless brats!
   Not "another term" Lihav!
   Hollyhaifa

7. This is how it looks from the street level

8. Every resident who says to himself at the moment "Well, someone will take care of it" and "there are procedures and standards and we are told that there are strict checks"
   He will think twice and take with him this image from the fire at the factory near Acre
   How is it possible that the Ministry of Environment was not aware of the dangerous way in which the factory stores scrap?
   And this is not a test of substances that are emitted, this could be seen from a simple visit..

   Can the members of the Haifa City Council really afford not to discuss the issues of HAM in the Haifa Bay?
   Are they so irresponsible to their electorate that it's not even up for debate?
   What will the investigative committee say, sorry, was it more important to talk about delegation visits and exhibition openings?

9. A photo as a souvenir, until the next default
   The plant owner, with all the importance of a 'green' metal plant that recycles scrap,
   Can't claim that it was "a small cloud of smoke that made headlines against the plant"
   There is also a limit to disdain for the residents of Haifa Bay.

10. A resident of Acre is now filing a class-action lawsuit against the polluting factory - Chud Methak.
    The claim is at the threshold of NIS 138 million following the giant fire that happened and caused his claim
    Damage to him and all residents of Haifa Bay.
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11. Residents of Ein Hamfaretz and Kfar Mesrik demand the closure of "Khud Matthach"
    Residents of Kibbutzim Ein Hamfaretz and Kfar Mesarik demanded that the Minister of Environmental Protection, Gilad Erdan, stop the activity of the "Hod Metchatov" factory in Acre at least until the end of the investigation of the fire that happened at the weekend. "What would you tell us if people were killed here," wondered one of the women, "that you are investigating?".
    The minister toured the place and met with the members of the kibbutz. He said that there is no intention to close the factory or the industrial area, but to make sure that the strictest standards applied to the factory are implemented.

12. "Environment Minister Gilad Erdan ordered the opening of a criminal investigation"

    In nrg within a day it has already moved from the news pages to the local section "more in the north"..
    Let's guess that nothing will come of the criminal investigation, the case will be closed due to lack of interest to the public (or its elected representatives) until the next explosion/fire/Homas event.

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13. It's not just that we didn't hear the mayor of Haifa, I didn't expect either.
    Unfortunately, with the crazy pace of news imposed on the public here by the media, each topic lasts exactly half a day.
    There is a small article in Deka news and immediately again the political issue stifles and paralyzes the discourse on peace and public health in the country.
    All kinds of commentators are given a 5-minute stage to pour poison against the government, but when factories pour poison into our lungs
    It's not sexy enough for the news. The wall of silence is broken only after there is some safety and health disaster, but even then that's enough
    Perfunctorily. When did you see a news broadcast where the dangers and safety failures were presented for fifteen minutes? No, maximum
    Write two minutes and immediately you have to promote some record or interview some new child star. This issue, which concerns the health of
    Hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens, is off the agenda. Why are there daily interviews with ministers about the political process and not daily interviews with
    The ministers about the risks of Haifa Bay? Isn't that sexy enough? Doesn't it concern enough people? When there is 20 percent more cancer incidence
    Is it not more important then or not to open road 443? Or because it is Modi'in and the center of the country, so you can manage 20 on that
    Minutes of discussion thirty times with all kinds of associations for, where are the associations for the health of the residents of the Haifa Bay and their right to breathe
    Clean air and live without the danger that hovers over their lives every day?

14. While the heads of the satellite cities near Haifa - following the fire - express their opinion and indignation with a loud shout about the danger
    The ambush for their residents during an emergency due to the leakage of the dangerous substances, who sleeps?
    Our mayor is sleeping peacefully and peacefully. And all his coalition members in the city council are complacent with him.
    But the pretense of being a metropolitan mayor exists and is growing and overflowing.

    Ha ha Hai Haifa.

15. There is no hospital in Acre, there is no hospital in Kiryat Ata, there is no hospital in Kiryat.
    Hundreds of thousands of residents near dangerous industrial areas and in the event of a disaster there is not even a hospital in the city!

    This week, on Wednesday, a one-minute alarm will be sounded in the frontline exercise.
    Wow, how protected we feel!!
    It seems to me that in the event of a disaster they would really advise us to wear a coat..

16. The photo is from the Had Assaf website - http://www.hodmetal.co.il/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

17. pay attention,
    A few weeks ago it was published here on the website that the Greens wanted to hold a discussion on the issue of dangerous substances
    In Haifa Bay, however, the coalition members refused to discuss the issue at all.
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    Do you understand what is happening here?
    A member of the coalition and among them Shlomo Gilboa who called himself green refuse to discuss the issue at all.

18. The heads of the settlements call for the removal of the factories from the Haifa and Acre bays. "At the center, this would not be on the agenda. It's time for the government to act"

    http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/109/ … 1&tmp=1976" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

19. It turns out that these are 3 different fires, and there is a suspicion of a wave of arson

    At 02:18 a report of smoke was received from a building on the second floor in the Naaman industrial area, near Acre. Five fire crews from the Acre and Nahariya stations arrived at the scene and detected smoke coming from a window on the second floor. The fire crews broke through the door and started extinguishing a warehouse that contained merchandise from a furniture store.
    Two hours later, not far away, a fire broke out in a clothing store in Kfar Kabul.
    The next fire broke out at 11:00 in the morning in the steel warehouse adjacent to the "Hod Peladot" factory located at the entrance to Acre. In a short time, a thick cloud of smoke began to spread, impairing visibility on the roads of the area. Highway 4 between the Ein Hamfaretz intersection and the Alovin intersection was first closed to traffic and then opened alternately, with cars traveling in one of the traffic directions each time.
    Fire investigators are investigating the circumstances of the fires, which raise suspicions of arson.

20. It is 18:00 and even now you can see the thick white cloud rising from the area.
    I really wondered what it was. Who knows what substances are released in each such fire.

21. http://www.ynet.co.il/home/0,7340,L-8,00.html

    Imagine what would happen if such a fire broke out in a factory in the Bay Area that holds hazardous materials.
    Residents of the village of Mesarik and other nearby towns were asked not to leave their homes to protect themselves from inhaling dangerous substances.
    So such a scenario is realistic.

    Can we rely on the Municipality of Haifa to take care of us in cases of leakage of dangerous substances due to a fire or an incident
    military?
    Personally, I do not trust the Haifa municipality, that the coalition members in the city council voted against a request to hold a discussion on the issue and did
    Laughter at such a topic.

    Does the Haifa Municipality or the Union of Cities have data on the effect of the fire in Acre on the air quality in our area?
    Is there a change in the level of air pollution in the Haifa area as a result of the fire?

22. The industrial plants in the Gulf, not only will not be closed or moved, but there are concrete plans to expand the production lines.
    These companies are very sophisticated and work behind the scenes to prevent any program or legislation that requires them to take responsibility in the areas of environmental quality.
    The companies cannot be closed nor suspended after production failures because the companies are vital to the economy and produce raw materials.
    But the companies can be forced to allocate a certain percentage of their huge profits to reduce pollution, to new technology and to clean the environment.
    They should not do this voluntarily or with a public relations campaign of several bike paths or painting the fence around the factory green - this should be stipulated by law.
    A law that will require a certain percentage of the profits and also of the property tax - for the exclusive treatment of the waste water they create, in air filters, in the transition to gas, cleaning land and streams and more.
    Only such legislation would be a real incentive for enterprises to become more efficient and operate in the field, because such activity would reward them by reducing the profits taken from them.
    As long as it is not determined that a percentage of their profits will go to this area and be returned as a reward for the factories' real activity to reduce pollution - there are no teeth for enforcement.

23. Even those who have not seen the movie 'The Shakshuka Method' but only in terms of its definition 'resident of Haifa' know that its mayor Yona Yahav is destroying the city in its most profitable categories: representative examples to illustrate my words: non-resistance in his powers to the polluters of the Haifa Bay / certainly systematic backing of the polluters in the Bay / The demolition of the flea market with a tilted arm and with incredible stubbornness that was a consensus of 50 years in Haifa - a true and unique gem of the city of Haifa and attempts to erase it / Lack of support for a community police station in the Neve-Yosef neighborhood in Haifa where the crime rate is one of the highest in the city / Failed operation while publishing lies to the public about the cleaning services In the city, while in his neighborhood Dania, the cleaning system is being fantastically and amazingly enhanced - I have full details for every detail / The demolition of the business center in the Hadar area and a horrendous waste of public financial resources in changing the transportation in Hadar and causing tremendous damage to the city with these changes / Total disregard for the plight of animal aid organizations while pouring millions into the category stadium of violent games of a more limited public / and more and more!!!!
    - Anyone who wants to know details about what I know should contact me at Tal. 052-6282022 and I will prove my claims!
    Debi Segal-Mizrachi is the chairperson of the "Yad Moshtet LLC" association and is also a member of the "Haifa Bay License Killers" organization and is also the former and Adin chairman of the flea market committee that has not yet died Adin and volunteers in other associations and organizations for the welfare of sectors in need.

24. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=losSOoWuJ3g

25. Anyone who has seen Miki Rosenthal's film "The Shakshuka Method" understands very well why Yona Yahav takes so much pains to kill this issue in the council meetings, and why he takes so much pains over storage areas for containers which destroy every good part of the Kiryat area and will continue to destroy the entire area.

26. There is nothing to be surprised about Yahav, similar to Olmert during his time as mayor of Jerusalem (and a profession they both share that honestly earned its dubious reputation) is the job of those with money and influence and not the residents. The real bad guys here are the coalition members who will vote with Yahav and pass a decision to build a mall on the moon. In exchange for favors for themselves and their party leaders, they vote automatically without exercising any judgment. You can simply draw them on the chair waving a sign "Yes to every proposal of Yahav and not to every proposal of the opposition". Most of them are a collection of small political businessmen who have reached the peak of their ambitions in life and they will not risk it with a vote in the public interest. This is how we were destined in Haifa - to be managed by a collection of cowardly dwarves with the moral depth of a puddle at the end of its drying process.

27. In our capital city of Jerusalem, the residents wondered and were amazed at the way the municipality handled the Holyland project.
    The residents' sixth sense sensed that something there was smelly.

    Even in the city of Haifa, the residents wonder and wonder about the way the mayor and her senior officials are handling the whole issue of the HMS.
    Is there something else smelly here too, apart from the stinky smell of the chemicals and dangerous substances?

    Long live the city hahahahaha
    Long live Yona Yahav, the mayor hahahahaha
    For the glory of the State of Israel. Ha ha ha how sad it is.

28. 
    Such an disregard, which endangers the lives of the residents of Haifa, by those who are entrusted with concern for their safety and well-being, is not possible!!!
    incomprehensible behavior.
    There is a feeling that the money of the factory owners in the area is the influencing and determining factor.
    

29. No proposal was received for a special discussion on the dangers of the HMS in Haifa Bay
    Hello

    The proposal for the Mtsab order submitted by, It was rejected yesterday in the city council by the majority of the coalition led by Yona Yahav.
    All the members of the opposition wondered how, on such an important issue, which directly concerns a real danger to human life, as many experts have been warning about it for a long time, the municipal administration exerts all its influence
    To prevent a discussion in the city council?
    It is clear that the mayor and the other members of the municipal administration demonstratively chose to protect the interests of several dangerous factories in Haifa Bay, at the expense of the wider public interest, and are not even willing to hold a discussion in the city council on the issue
    So critical and dangerous!

    It should be noted that the only member of the coalition who did not vote with the rest of his members was Prof. Gadi Landau, who is also the chairman of the Municipal Security Committee and is well aware of the dangers of the HMS in Haifa Bay. Prof. Landau abstained from voting.

    Best regards,
    Yaron Hanan • Member of the Haifa Green City Council •
    ______________________________________________________

    To the Honorable: Ms. Bracha Sela - Secretary of the City of Haifa

    Copy: Frida Borer

    From verified and up-to-date information that has reached us, it appears that the official position of the State of Israel (part of the state emergency authorities), regarding learning the lessons from the Second Lebanon War-
    In regards to the concentrations of dangerous substances in Haifa Bay, it is as follows:

    1. In the event of a war, even if an order is given to reduce (reduce) the amount of ammunition in the dangerous stockpiles in the Gulf, it will take more than 7 days (!) to reach the reasonable threshold amount to prevent the danger of
    Mass harm to human life!
    2. There is still no clear and authorized decision regarding prevention, or the obligation to immediately remove HMS ships with the potential for damage and danger - from the Gulf area in the event of a war flare-up in the area.
    3. According to the state's position, there is no need to inform the public about the dangers of the HMS and the way to deal with it in the event of an emergency involving a dangerous leak of toxic substances. If it is already required
    An explanation that according to the official position, it is only required "for the purpose of calming the public" and "reducing pressure from the public towards the decision makers in the municipality"...!? (read and not believe).
    4. The official authorities in the State of Israel do not consider a direct hit of a missile or rocket on the roof of the ammonia tank, a real danger to human life, beyond the area of ​​the tank itself. In complete contradiction to opinion
    Professional experts in the field.
    5. The state authorities fully trust the teams of the factories that own and operate the HMS reservoirs in the Gulf, because they know how to properly handle incidents of leakage or damage to the reservoirs, such as the ammonia tank.
    6. From an audit report carried out a few months ago by the Shipping Authority (RESFAN) on the subject of the poor maintenance condition of some of the HMS ships arriving at Haifa port - a clear picture of a safety hazard emerges
    high Although and after the publication of the report, the sinking of the wretched ship took place in December 2009, on its way to Haifa (it may have been carrying a hidden cargo of fuel nearby). This maritime accident only illustrates the
    The dangers described in the audit report, also regarding the state of the HMS ships that visit Haifa port every week.

    In light of these data, the city council must decide as follows:

    A. The city council rejects the aforementioned official statements of the state authorities and sees them as an escape from responsibility and an attempt to calm the public in anticipation of a future war scenario, if God forbid it occurs
    Again in our area! The council calls on all security and emergency authorities to immediately draw the required lessons from the Second Lebanon War and Operation "Cast Lead" in relation to Haifa Bay.
    The same goes for the known dangers of serious gas leaks that are expected in the scenario of a strong earthquake.
    on. The city council calls on the mayor to come out clearly, openly and decisively against the evasion of the government ministries and the security forces from taking immediate steps to drastically reduce the stockpiles of the materials
    The dangerous ones that clearly endanger human life, as the mayors of other cities in the country used to do and do, in the vicinity of which there were concentrated HMS reservoirs with a less serious danger than the one in Haifa Bay.
    third. The city council calls on the municipal administration to change the policy of ambiguity and lack of transparency in regards to providing information to the public about the dangers of the HMS in the Haifa area, due to the failed attempt "to maintain
    Haifa's image", and with the intention of "not worrying the public", as a number of senior officials in the municipality administration say and think?
    d. The council calls for vigorous activity by the municipality, with the participation of the relevant state agencies - to explain to the public how it should behave in preparation for and especially during a serious leak of dangerous substances in our area.

    Best regards,
    Yaron Hanan
    council member
    The "Greens of Haifa" faction

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