A new report from the State Comptroller (issued January 2025) relates to the poor maintenance record of EAPC-Katza, the state-owned company that transfers crude oil from the Gulf of Eilat port to Ashkelon, a distance of 158 miles. The report sights, among other things, EAPC’s failures to renew valves, a key issue highlighted in Ministry of Environmental Protection surveys in 2015 and again in 2022.
Adam Teva V’Din and other environmental organizations note that the State Comptroller is highlighting yet another failing by EAPC, a company that benefits from a degree of secrecy in its operations. Amit Bracha, CEO of Adam Teva V’Din, underscores that EAPC’s poor performance has been responsible for Israel’s greatest environmental disaster (Evrona, 2014), yet its officials received only a rap on the knuckles from the court in legal proceedings.
He notes that, “The State Comptroller reveals yet again how insufficient oversight and lack of preventative action combine to endanger our environment. “EAPC should relate to the report as a “Fix-It” list.”
