上周的新聞發(fā)布會(huì)上，采石場(chǎng)修復(fù)基金會(huì)(QRF)主席Mimran，和國(guó)家基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施部長(zhǎng)說(shuō)，到2020年，以色列將面臨原料短缺。以色列目前有80個(gè)在運(yùn)營(yíng)采石場(chǎng)，有大約一千個(gè)正在挖掘和需要修復(fù)的采石場(chǎng)。然而，近14年來(lái)沒(méi)有新的采石場(chǎng)通過(guò)審批。以色列土地管理局國(guó)家石礦場(chǎng)的督察Yossi Bar-Niv說(shuō)。
Mimran警告說(shuō)，幾種基礎(chǔ)原料正在面臨枯竭的危險(xiǎn)，骨料（礫石），玄武巖，沙子，磷酸鹽，及石灰水泥已經(jīng)或正在以色列變的稀缺。這些基本原料的缺乏將不可避免地推動(dòng)成本上升無(wú)論是對(duì)材料本身還是對(duì)于消費(fèi)者來(lái)說(shuō)。Bar-Niv指出，在在短短三年間玄武巖的成本已經(jīng)由20新謝克爾每噸上升到100新謝克爾每噸。
最近，對(duì)現(xiàn)有的采石場(chǎng)完成一項(xiàng)詳盡的調(diào)查后，Ben-Eliezer和Mimran在星期四宣布：到2015年以色列將只能依靠27座采石場(chǎng)每年生產(chǎn)4500萬(wàn)噸原料。他們還預(yù)計(jì)，到2015年，將短缺4.35億噸骨料，而到2035年短缺骨料將達(dá)到10.08億噸。骨料對(duì)建筑業(yè)來(lái)說(shuō)是非常關(guān)鍵的。
目前有60家采石場(chǎng)在生產(chǎn)骨料，但是Mimran說(shuō)，到2026年，大多數(shù)采石場(chǎng)將已經(jīng)開(kāi)采完，并關(guān)閉和修復(fù)。他還說(shuō)，沙也將短缺。丘沙正在用盡，因此他和部長(zhǎng)建議用石沙來(lái)代替。
Ben-Eliezer和Mimran認(rèn)為一個(gè)開(kāi)放更多采石場(chǎng)的國(guó)家戰(zhàn)略計(jì)劃急需出臺(tái)。
政府專員指出，由于私自開(kāi)采采石場(chǎng)以及沒(méi)有政府的監(jiān)督，已經(jīng)造成了生態(tài)破壞。而國(guó)家計(jì)劃的出臺(tái)將增加供應(yīng)量，從而遏止這些私人采石場(chǎng)。
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Israel faces severe raw materials shortage
At a special press conference this past Thursday, Mimran and National Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer warned that there would be shortages in raw materials by 2020. There are currently 80 working quarries in Israel, and about a thousand which have been tapped out and are in need of rehabilitation. However no new quarry has been approved by the national planning council in the last 14 years, Yossi Bar-Niv, national quarry inspector at the Israel Lands Authority, told The Jerusalem Post.
Mimran warned that several basic raw materials were in danger of depletion. Aggregate (gravel), basalt, sand, phosphates, and lime for cement have become or will shortly become scarce in Israel, he said. The lack of such basic raw materials will inexorably push up costs, both for the materials themselves and for consumers, he warned. Bar-Niv pointed out that the cost of basalt had gone from NIS 20 per ton to NIS 100 per ton in just three years.
After recently completing an exhaustive survey of existing quarries, Ben-Eliezer and Mimran announced on Thursday that by 2015 Israel would be relying on just 27 quarries to produce 45 million tons of raw materials per year. By 2015, they said they expected a 435 million ton shortage in aggregate and a 1,008 million ton shortage by 2035. Aggregate is critical to the construction industry.
At present there are 60 quarries producing aggregate, but Mimran said that by 2026 most would be tapped out, shut down and rehabilitated. He also said there would be a shortage in sand: Dune sand has been running out, so he and the minister have suggested using quarried sand instead.
A national strategic plan for opening more quarries was needed, Ben-Eliezer and Mimran argued.
Part of the ecological damage attributed to quarries had been caused by pirate operations - quarries which had been opened by private individuals and were not under the supervision of the government, the petroleum commissioner noted. A national plan would enable an increase in supply, which would make such unsupervised quarries unneccessary.
