Lehrman Architects and Town Planners, Ltd. 120 Yigal Alon St., Tel Aviv 67443 Tel.: 03-6959893, Fax: 03-6960299 Ministry of Energy and Water Resources N. O. P. 37 H For Natural Gas Treatment Facilities From Natural Gas Discoveries Environmental Impact Survey Chapter 1 – Land Environment October 2012 ETHOS – Architecture, Planning and Environment, Ltd. 5 Habanai St., Hod Hasharon 45319 ISRAEL www.ethos-group.co.il
[email protected] Fax: 09-7404499 Tel.: 09-7883555 Abstract Chapter 1 – Description of the environment to which the plan relates The main purpose of NOP/37 H is to create a planning framework that will enable the gas companies to produce, transport and transmit natural gas to the existing and planned national transmission system from the sources that have been discovered and may be discovered in the future, in offshore wells opposite the Israeli coast. The purpose of the present phase – Chapters 1 and 2 of the Environmental Impact Survey – is to examine five onshore alternatives for the receiving and treatment facilities: 1. Dor North 2. Ein Ayala 3. Hagit East 4. Hadera Wastewater Treatment Facility 5. Meretz Wastewater Treatment Facility Additionally, three alternatives are being investigated regarding offshore sites for platforms that will be part of the natural gas treatment array in accordance with the guidelines of the Ministry of Environmental Protection from March 29, 2012, which were approved at a meeting of the National Board and are attached hereto as Appendix A. It should be noted that concomitant with the EIS document that looks at alternative locations from environmental perspectives, an additional document is being prepared that will be submitted in parallel, presenting the engineering, security and other aspects for examining the aforesaid alternatives.