上周的新聞發(fā)布會上，采石場修復基金會(QRF)主席Mimran，和國家基礎設施部長說，到2020年，以色列將面臨原料短缺。以色列目前有80個在運營采石場，有大約一千個正在挖掘和需要修復的采石場。然而，近14年來沒有新的采石場通過審批。以色列土地管理局國家石礦場的督察Yossi Bar-Niv說。
Mimran警告說，幾種基礎原料正在面臨枯竭的危險，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成本上升無論是對材料本身還是對于消費者來說。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，對現(xiàn)有的采石場完成一項詳盡的調查后，Ben-Eliezer和Mimran在星期四宣布：到2015年以色列將只能依靠27座采石場每年生產(chǎn)4500萬噸原料。他們還預計，到2015年，將短缺4.35億噸骨料，而到2035年短缺骨料將達到10.08億噸。骨料對建筑業(yè)來說是非常關鍵的。
目前有60家采石場在生產(chǎn)骨料，但是Mimran說，到2026年，大多數(shù)采石場將已經(jīng)開采完，并關閉和修復。他還說，沙也將短缺。丘沙正在用盡，因此他和部長建議用石沙來代替。
Ben-Eliezer和Mimran認為一個開放更多采石場的國家戰(zhàn)略計劃急需出臺。
政府專員指出，由于私自開采采石場以及沒有政府的監(jiān)督，已經(jīng)造成了生態(tài)破壞。而國家計劃的出臺將增加供應量，從而遏止這些私人采石場。
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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.
