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The abundance of sunlight in Lebanon may be the cleanest and most viable energy alternative to oil, according to experts who attended a workshop on renewable energy hosted by the Lebanese Environmental Party on Friday. "The politics of energy are controlled by the oil industry," said Habib Maalouf, president of the Environmental Party. "We are working to liberate the energy sector from this influence and to promote the energy we naturally possess in Lebanon, like solar energy."
Party committed to closing gap between rich and poor preserve human dignity
Some 50 activists from environmental, social and political backgrounds gathered Sunday at Beirut's Commodore Hotel to announce the birth of the Lebanese Environment Party.
"We have [been] working on this idea for 10 years now, and we finally decided to found the party. The environment issue in Lebanon has become a political one and we should therefore approach it from a political angle rather than through non-governmental and nonpolitical agencies," said Habib Maalouf, co-founder of the party.
Beirut 'missed out on $2.5 billion' by failing to tax quarries
Critics call for 'proper law' to regulate sector
The Lebanese state could have generated around $2.5 billion, had it collected fees and taxes from the quarries sector over the past 15 years, according to the Lebanese Environment Party on Wednesday. The party announced this figure, which was calculated based on earlier official studies and legal documents, at their first national conference on the need for organizing quarries, titled "when will wasting natural resources and public wealth be stopped?"
