Yesterday I drove my daughter to Haifa (she received a nice room in the Technion) and then went to large garage in the port. The garage was sold to a chain and the change of name implies the need for a new business permit. Suddenly they need the signatures of a hundred regulators they didnt even imagine existed. They are desperate. The strategy is to submit only the improvements done on the old permitted garage, such as new hangars and so on. It rained hard.
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In India, you just pay someone and it all gets sorted out toute-suite.
It is called "the license Raj".
You should pioneer it in Israel.
Anon.
What they did was to contract a company specialized in permitting. The got a list of permits (about FIFTY!) that needed to be completed before the final business permit is granted. This company subcontracts dealing with different permits to engineers, etc. I deal with water and sewage and environmental authorities, sometimes with fire fighting. An electric engineer has to certify the electric infrasturcture, noise specialist that there is no noise, odor specialist, structural engineer, drawing and more drawings and reports, and of course the original building permit, and land property and so on. Garages are difficult because the limit to mineral oil discharge is ZERO, so they have to deal with all their oil. Lately they are forced to drill test wells to show there is no aquifer contamination.
You would think that Jews would be ambivalent about driving German cars, but in fact they love them. My aunt can see her Auschwitz number tattoo as she holds the steering wheel on her Mercedes. The status outweighs the infamy.
Recently I saw a very elaborate rig set up near a local gas station - all sorts of tanks and pumps and wells and valves and so on. I had no idea what it was - I found out it was some sort of system for ground water remediation - they pump the water from the ground, filter out the hydrocarbons that have leaked from the underground gasoline tanks and inject the water back into the ground. I think this has to go on for years and must cost big $.
K
J'accuse! The EPA started a worldwide craze to "clean" contaminated soil. Natural micro-organisms feed on organic matter and all pollutants are consumed and disappear naturally and very fast. That is the case of oil spill in the ocean, it is consumed very fast but EPA has made a tremendous crime of them. The same with gas seeping into the soil, it never reaches any depth but is consumed near the surface. The craze has hit us twice as hard as you in America.
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