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01/07/2000
South suffers new invasion by quarries Profiteers waste no time and Interior Ministry helps them
Reem Haddad ,
Daily Star staff
Just a month after the South was liberated, the ugly sights of quarrying have already sprung up around several villages. The rich, clean, untouched sand and rocks have caught the eyes of many profiteers who, it seems, were granted quarrying licenses by the Interior Ministry almost as soon as Israeli occupation forces moved out. For truck drivers like Mohammed Safa, who travels throughout the country looking for sand, the new quarries are great news. He makes his living by purchasing, selling, and stocking sand. “I have more choices of where to go now,” he said.
27/04/2000
Angry Jezzine laments quarry devastation
Zayan Khalil
Daily Star staff
The people of Jezzine are worried that their lush scenic
countryside will soon cease to exist because excessive sand quarrying
and excavation in the area is depleting its green hills and mountains,
and areas containing rare plants.
Environmental activists asked by residents to assess the extent of the damage
believe their concerns are completely justified.
“That's how the mountains were before quarrying and sand excavations began,”
said Salman Abbas, an activist, as he pointed to photographs of dense forest.
“And that's how devastated they are now,” he added, illustrating the damage with
pictures of bare hills and newly opened service roads through the forests.