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Israel plans to dump tons of garbage in West Bank
By David Ratner, Haaretz Correspondent
For the first time since 1967, Israel has decided to transfer garbage beyond the Green Line and dump it in the West Bank.
The project was launched despite international treaties prohibiting an occupying state from making use of occupied territory unless it benefits the local population.
In addition, pollution experts say such use of the Kedumim quarry - located in an old Palestinian quarry between the Kedumim settlement and Nablus - will jeopardize Palestinian water sources.
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IEA urges swift end to energy subsidies
By Javier Blas in London
Published: April 3 2005 22:00 | Last updated: April 3 2005 22:00
Oil importing countries need to remove energy subsidies as quickly as possible as they are a spur to higher consumption despite high oil prices, the International Energy Agency has warned.
"The oil market is not functioning well because there is not significant demand response to price signals," Claude Mandil, IEA executive director, said in an interview with the Financial Times.
Developing Asian countries such as China, Indonesia and Malaysia have reduced their fuel subsidies in the past weeks, increasing petrol and diesel prices by 6-30 per cent. But the region is still on track to account for 40 per cent of the increase in global oil demand this year.
Mr Mandil said the IEA, the industrialised nations' energy watchdog, was "fully conscious that many of those subsidies are made for social purposes". But those problems "should be addressed by other ways".
In spite of strong economic growth, Mr Mandil said, high oil prices hurt. "It is true that [in very advanced] countries the burden is not extremely high, but in most developing countries the burden is important."
The IEA warning came as US oil prices hit $57.70 a barrel, up 65 per cent from April last year. Demand is set to increase this year by about 2m barrels a day, well above the historical trend.
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The Paris-based IEA has emphasised energy saving in the past months and will publish a study Saving Oil in a Hurry which will propose reductions in transport fuel demand.
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"We think that the time has come to launch adequate energy efficiency programmes and policies in consuming countries to help market forces react to high prices signals."
