A top-level government committee in the Prime Minister's Office recommended on Monday that Bazan Group's oil refineries in the Haifa Bay be shuttered within no longer than a decade.
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The move to shutter Bazan's facilities in Haifa Bay and its oil storage complex in nearby Kiryat Haim, as well as the transfer of Haifa Chemicals, a fertilizer plant, from there to the Negev desert in the south, should be pursued "as soon as possible, and within no more than a decade," the panel stated.
Haifa residents, plagued by significant air pollution and above-average incidences of cancer and respiratory disease, have been campaigning for years to shut the complex down.
