Annahar reported today that "the transformation of the Qlaiaat airport in the North into a large-scale facility would provide 6,000 new job opportunities on the first year of its operation". The cost of rehabilitating the whole airport is only 45 million dollars, which is nothing compared to the profits it will bring in. Added to that, PM Najib Mikati is showing interest in this issue and has "tasked Public Works Minister Ghazi Aridi to prepare…

Picture from The DailyStar I've been hearing about such studies for the past 10 years and still nothing has been done to extract that gas. Maybe it's better if it remains buried as I have a feeling it will only bring us trouble. An international firm has estimated the volume of gas in Lebanon’s south-west corner to be close to 25 trillion cubic feet, valued by experts to be worth over $40 billion. “In the…