In a competition that drew international bids for a first-of-its-kind project in Israel, two government ministries have picked Canada’s EnGlobe Corp. for a $55-million cleanup of the Kishon River, a dumping ground for untreated industrial and municipal wastes for decades.
Last month, the company, based in Quebec City, Quebec, won the global tender that was issued jointly by the country's Environmental Protection Ministry and the Kishon River and Drainage Authority. EnGlobe, which specializes in bio-remediation approaches, beat out about 20 companies from North America and Europe that submitted cleanup proposals, according to firm President Mario Saucier.
“This is the first such project in Israel, and, hopefully, it will lead to the cleaning up of other rivers and streams in the future,” says the Environmental Protection Ministry's Gilad Erdan.