Home
Besrion officials protesting the lack of involvement of the province in the drafting of the oil and gas law
Alsumaria News / Basra
The members of the Council in the province of Basra , on Thursday, protesting against the uniqueness of the Federal Government to formulate the oil and gas law and the lack of involvement of local government in the formulation of the draft law as to maintain the oil and gas industry center in the country. The Chairman of the Committee of Financial Supervision and follow-up assignments Ahmed Sulaiti in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "The federal government mistakenly ignored the oil-producing provinces, notably Basra, and carried by surprise submit a draft oil and gas law to the House of Representatives for the purpose of endorsing it," noting that "Basra as produced in the current circumstances, about 95% of Iraq's oil, it is completely unacceptable to ignore the right to contribute to the drafting of the law which relates to the present and future of the people of the province, especially since Article 112 of the Constitution emphasized that producing provinces is a partner of the Federal Government in the management of oil and gas fields. "
He explained Sulaiti, who was vice-president of the Council the previous edition, that "the draft oil and gas law should be discussed by the county council before it approved by the House of Representatives, or at least ask the provincial council opinion on the draft law," adding that "the law is supposed to address some of the problems of Albesrion, most notably the problem of classification of the majority of the territory of the province as land of oil, as well as resulting from the oil industry, environmental pollution problem. "
Sulaiti and pointed out that "the federal government is dealing double suspicious, they are by bow and comply with the wishes and demands of the Kurdistan Regional Government during their negotiations on the problems relating to the production and export of oil produced from the fields of the region, and the other side does not want to listen to the opinion of Basra, which produces and exports millions of barrels", adding that "Basra lost their rights when conducting licensing rounds, which extends for twenty years and more, and must not be repeated tragedy again through the oil and gas law."
For his part, Chairman of the Committee of decentralization and administrative reform in the provincial council secretary gave in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "Basra and the rest of the oil-producing provinces need to initiate their own laws relating to oil wealth, and what does not intersect with the Constitution or inconsistent with federal laws , "adding that" the Constitution gives the right to the provincial legislation laws, and provincial law No. 21 of 2008 amended emphasized this constitutional right. "
It is noteworthy that Basra's oil industry center in Iraq , and the most important oil cities in the world, owns about 59% of Iraq's oil reserves, and has the largest oil fields in Iraq, including the crazy and Rumaila and West Qurna , and through the province exported most of Iraq's oil quantities that depend the state budget on the revenue almost entirely, where issued quantities of oil by tankers foreign freely through the ports of al-Amaya and Basra (deep pristine previously), as well as three floating mono platforms (tow and Giuor and Fayhaa), and pumping oil for the three platforms and new ports foes across the pipeline network under water and related storage warehouses are located near the center of the coastal Faw overlooking the Gulf, and in spite of all this, the population of the province severely suffering from the deterioration of services, unemployment and a severe housing crisis.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Alsumaria News / Basra
The members of the Council in the province of Basra , on Thursday, protesting against the uniqueness of the Federal Government to formulate the oil and gas law and the lack of involvement of local government in the formulation of the draft law as to maintain the oil and gas industry center in the country. The Chairman of the Committee of Financial Supervision and follow-up assignments Ahmed Sulaiti in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "The federal government mistakenly ignored the oil-producing provinces, notably Basra, and carried by surprise submit a draft oil and gas law to the House of Representatives for the purpose of endorsing it," noting that "Basra as produced in the current circumstances, about 95% of Iraq's oil, it is completely unacceptable to ignore the right to contribute to the drafting of the law which relates to the present and future of the people of the province, especially since Article 112 of the Constitution emphasized that producing provinces is a partner of the Federal Government in the management of oil and gas fields. "
He explained Sulaiti, who was vice-president of the Council the previous edition, that "the draft oil and gas law should be discussed by the county council before it approved by the House of Representatives, or at least ask the provincial council opinion on the draft law," adding that "the law is supposed to address some of the problems of Albesrion, most notably the problem of classification of the majority of the territory of the province as land of oil, as well as resulting from the oil industry, environmental pollution problem. "
Sulaiti and pointed out that "the federal government is dealing double suspicious, they are by bow and comply with the wishes and demands of the Kurdistan Regional Government during their negotiations on the problems relating to the production and export of oil produced from the fields of the region, and the other side does not want to listen to the opinion of Basra, which produces and exports millions of barrels", adding that "Basra lost their rights when conducting licensing rounds, which extends for twenty years and more, and must not be repeated tragedy again through the oil and gas law."
For his part, Chairman of the Committee of decentralization and administrative reform in the provincial council secretary gave in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "Basra and the rest of the oil-producing provinces need to initiate their own laws relating to oil wealth, and what does not intersect with the Constitution or inconsistent with federal laws , "adding that" the Constitution gives the right to the provincial legislation laws, and provincial law No. 21 of 2008 amended emphasized this constitutional right. "
It is noteworthy that Basra's oil industry center in Iraq , and the most important oil cities in the world, owns about 59% of Iraq's oil reserves, and has the largest oil fields in Iraq, including the crazy and Rumaila and West Qurna , and through the province exported most of Iraq's oil quantities that depend the state budget on the revenue almost entirely, where issued quantities of oil by tankers foreign freely through the ports of al-Amaya and Basra (deep pristine previously), as well as three floating mono platforms (tow and Giuor and Fayhaa), and pumping oil for the three platforms and new ports foes across the pipeline network under water and related storage warehouses are located near the center of the coastal Faw overlooking the Gulf, and in spite of all this, the population of the province severely suffering from the deterioration of services, unemployment and a severe housing crisis.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
