Israel Seeks Ammonia Solution as Report Warns of Toxic Threat
- Haifa plant to be emptied amid Hezbollah threat to attack
- Committee presents alternatives to continue ammonia production
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The Israeli government is scrambling to help one of the country’s biggest exporters stay in business after a report found its operations in a major urban area put thousands of lives at risk.
The Haifa District Court had ordered the country’s only ammonia storage tank closed by Saturday, after the report commissioned by the Haifa municipality found the 31-year-old facility could rupture at any moment and kill as many as 16,000 people in Israel’s third-largest city. Hundreds of thousands could die in a toxic cloud if the ship that delivers ammonia to the plant each month were attacked, the report said.