Israel’s High Court of Justice has issued an interim injunction halting construction work on the Kishon River Gas Pipeline through agricultural lands on the slopes of Mount Carmel, Israel.
According to Israeli news sources, the injunction will allow time for negotiations between the Druze land owners, who lodged the petition for an injunction, and all the bodies involved in the pipeline project, including the Prime Minister’s Office and the construction company Israel Gas Lines Ltd.
The sources stated that court will hold another hearing on the case on 12 July 2010.
Israel Natural Gas Lines Ltd commenced construction on the pipeline earlier this year after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered that work begin on the laying the pipeline to Haifa by the end of January 2010.
The pipeline crosses land owned by the country’s Arabic-speaking Druze community, which is officially recognised as a separate religious entity with its own courts and spiritual leadership.
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The Kishon River Gas Pipeline will connect the Haifa Bay area to the country’s existing natural gas infrastructure to alleviate the existing bottleneck of infrastructure and energy as well as the significant air pollution in the Haifa Bay region.
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