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Dozens of young unemployed people demonstrating near the oil field in Basra to demand employment
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Alsumaria news/Basrah
Dozens of people demonstrated in a rural area near West Qurna field (1), located in the governorate of Basra, Wednesday, to seek employment in the field, and some set fire to several tyres and cut off one of the roads leading to the field.
He said Media Coordinator for the event, Kazem told albahli for "alsumaria news", "dozens of young people in the area with his family within the administrative borders of the city and the neighbouring West Qurna (1) demonstrated near the site of the oil field for employment and even a temporary", stating that "protesters set fire to tires and blocked a road leading to the Group of oil wells belonging to the field as an expression of anger and protest the lack of employment in the field and a preference for others from other provinces on them."
He said protesters albahli is expected to continue to organize peaceful demonstrations in the coming days to pressure the South oil company as responsible for the orders in the field and on the follow-up to the work of the foreign oil companies executing contracts rounds, adding that licenses "in his rural area are the most affected by the presence of the field that resulted in its development to raze large areas of fertile agricultural land and grazing areas, in addition to restricting the movement of fishermen throughout the region, not to mention the environmental and health damage To the population, so it must be a priority in the work within the field of nearby areas ".
Present situation, said a city name in favor of angry in an interview for "alsumaria news", "the demonstrators demanded simple jobs in the field, and residents of the densely populated rural area, adjacent to the field," he said, adding that "what motivates and encourages the people of the areas near the oil fields to protest the foreign oil companies to bring foreign workers, as well as running lots of Iraqi workers from other provinces," and adding that "the sons of areas near the oil fields they feel injustice and marginalization when Find strangers working in their areas and they are unemployed job. "
In turn, the Chairman of the oil and gas Committee in Basra Governorate Council Knight in an interview for Shadad "alsumaria news", that "the demonstration of the West Qurna field day (1) is the second of its kind in less than a month, it has emerged in (30 December 2014) a similar protest demonstration near the Majnoon oilfield", stating that "the provincial Council decided after the first demonstration of community formed a Committee consisting of members of the provincial Council and representatives of the South oil company and foreign oil companies invested, as well as Representatives of the local councils in districts and areas where there are oil fields. "
Knight noted that "the Committee of the newly-formed cast to replace a proportion of foreign labour to local employment with preference in employment to areas near the oil fields," he said, adding that "there is a problem of a different kind in relation to the operation areas near oil fields, where the previous one didn't work distribute them fairly, some people got those areas on many jobs, with no children of other regions on appropriate jobs, and this problem Resolved by the community through the justice in the distribution of employment opportunities. "
The Basra province is a centre of the oil industry in Iraq, one of the most important cities in the world, with at least 59% of Iraq's oil reserves, the world's largest oil fields in Iraq, including crazy and Rumaila, West Qurna, and through most of Iraq's oil exports which depend on State budget revenues almost entirely, with oil by tankers freely through the ports of Al-Amaya and Basra (pristine deep already), as well as three single floating platforms (wegikor and Al-Marbad)And pumping oil for the three platforms new and old ports via underwater pipelines and related coastal storage depots near the center of Faw district, overlooking the Gulf, despite all the inhabitants of the province are suffering severely from the collapse in a severe housing crisis services and exacerbated the phenomenon of unemployment.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Alsumaria news/Basrah
Dozens of people demonstrated in a rural area near West Qurna field (1), located in the governorate of Basra, Wednesday, to seek employment in the field, and some set fire to several tyres and cut off one of the roads leading to the field.
He said Media Coordinator for the event, Kazem told albahli for "alsumaria news", "dozens of young people in the area with his family within the administrative borders of the city and the neighbouring West Qurna (1) demonstrated near the site of the oil field for employment and even a temporary", stating that "protesters set fire to tires and blocked a road leading to the Group of oil wells belonging to the field as an expression of anger and protest the lack of employment in the field and a preference for others from other provinces on them."
He said protesters albahli is expected to continue to organize peaceful demonstrations in the coming days to pressure the South oil company as responsible for the orders in the field and on the follow-up to the work of the foreign oil companies executing contracts rounds, adding that licenses "in his rural area are the most affected by the presence of the field that resulted in its development to raze large areas of fertile agricultural land and grazing areas, in addition to restricting the movement of fishermen throughout the region, not to mention the environmental and health damage To the population, so it must be a priority in the work within the field of nearby areas ".
Present situation, said a city name in favor of angry in an interview for "alsumaria news", "the demonstrators demanded simple jobs in the field, and residents of the densely populated rural area, adjacent to the field," he said, adding that "what motivates and encourages the people of the areas near the oil fields to protest the foreign oil companies to bring foreign workers, as well as running lots of Iraqi workers from other provinces," and adding that "the sons of areas near the oil fields they feel injustice and marginalization when Find strangers working in their areas and they are unemployed job. "
In turn, the Chairman of the oil and gas Committee in Basra Governorate Council Knight in an interview for Shadad "alsumaria news", that "the demonstration of the West Qurna field day (1) is the second of its kind in less than a month, it has emerged in (30 December 2014) a similar protest demonstration near the Majnoon oilfield", stating that "the provincial Council decided after the first demonstration of community formed a Committee consisting of members of the provincial Council and representatives of the South oil company and foreign oil companies invested, as well as Representatives of the local councils in districts and areas where there are oil fields. "
Knight noted that "the Committee of the newly-formed cast to replace a proportion of foreign labour to local employment with preference in employment to areas near the oil fields," he said, adding that "there is a problem of a different kind in relation to the operation areas near oil fields, where the previous one didn't work distribute them fairly, some people got those areas on many jobs, with no children of other regions on appropriate jobs, and this problem Resolved by the community through the justice in the distribution of employment opportunities. "
The Basra province is a centre of the oil industry in Iraq, one of the most important cities in the world, with at least 59% of Iraq's oil reserves, the world's largest oil fields in Iraq, including crazy and Rumaila, West Qurna, and through most of Iraq's oil exports which depend on State budget revenues almost entirely, with oil by tankers freely through the ports of Al-Amaya and Basra (pristine deep already), as well as three single floating platforms (wegikor and Al-Marbad)And pumping oil for the three platforms new and old ports via underwater pipelines and related coastal storage depots near the center of Faw district, overlooking the Gulf, despite all the inhabitants of the province are suffering severely from the collapse in a severe housing crisis services and exacerbated the phenomenon of unemployment.
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