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Source: http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/professional-associations-protest-gas-deal-israel
Jordanian Professional Associations Protest Gas Deal with Israel
(Jordan Times) Suzanna Goussous - The Professional Associations Council on Wednesday organized a demonstration in Irbid, protesting the ongoing construction of a 65-km. pipeline to link Jordan's north to Israel. The pipeline will distribute gas to power plants across the Kingdom to generate electricity. The pipeline will be completed by the end of 2019 and the gas is expected to arrive in Jordan in 2020. The government said the deal to purchase gas from the Israeli Leviathan field would save nearly $1 billion (JD700 million) annually on Jordan's energy bill.