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Officials want price controls put on the transportation of cement In Israel. Various government ministries are fighting over who should have the decision to impose price controls in the first place. The treasury thinks it should share responsibility over determining these factors with Transportation Ministry. However Transportation Ministry believes it should not. This argument comes after a government meeting, where they were tasked in finding ways to "up" the cement competition.

The cement company Lafarge, says that UK faces a 200 million tonnes shortfall due to slow planning procedures. There is an extremely high demand currently in the UK. If this continues or increases, then the countries capacity to supply will begin to decline after 10 years. Out of the 200 million tonnes, only 60 is recyclable which leaves the rest to be extracted from primary sources. Since the procedure to quarry materials from primary sources requires authority permission, the process is very slow. This slow process is going to create the shortfall says Lafarge.