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Article: "Gas station land clean-up could cost $1.8b" - expert: Ami Adini recommends a fuel surtax on consumers to pay for the clean-up.
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- March 18, 2007
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Byline: Dalia Tal
Mar. 18--"On the basis of experience in California, the cost of cleaning up contaminated land at gas stations and other sites in Israel could cost $1.8 billion," Ami Adini & Associates CEO Ami Adini will announce at an upcoming Israel Water Association conference on Wednesday.
Adini will recommend relying on the US's experience and charge consumers a surtax on fuel to pay for the clean-up rather than compel the polluters to pay for it. In February 2007, the US General Accounting Office recommended setting up a fund of this kind in each of the states. In Israel, Paz Oil Company Ltd. (TASE:PZOL) has been promoting a similar initiative.
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