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Basra plans to sue foreign oil companies in the province because of environmental pollution
10/13/15
Basra / Sky Press: Basra Governorate Council announced on Monday his intention to sue the foreign oil companies, which holds the development and operation of the oil fields to maintain because of its projects due to environmental pollution.
The Chairman of the Committee on Health and the Environment in the Council, according to a statement received "Sky Press," that "Iraqi officials who concluded a licensing rounds with foreign oil companies did not care much environmental side, most of the companies did not comply with standards and environmental determinants."
"The oil companies contracting within the licenses, mostly rounds using an old environmentally friendly methods in the extraction of oil because it is inexpensive compared to the tummy tuck," pointing out that "the environmental pollution caused by oil projects has led to increased rates of cancer and diseases of the respiratory tract between residents of the territories neighboring oil fields, and in some of those areas got cancer rate to 10%. "
"The oil industry make up the backbone of the national economy, but this does not justify the threat to the safety of citizens and the destruction of the environment, and therefore must be preserved Basra environment from pollution by the failure of oil projects, especially air pollution from greenhouse gas emissions."
The Chairperson of the Committee on Health and the Environment in the provincial council that "the Council prepared a study for the violations and environmental violations committed by the oil companies, through their work," noting that "the Council going to raise some environmental violations fatal to the courts to force the oil companies, contrary to the obligation not to inflict further damage to the environmen
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10/13/15
Basra / Sky Press: Basra Governorate Council announced on Monday his intention to sue the foreign oil companies, which holds the development and operation of the oil fields to maintain because of its projects due to environmental pollution.
The Chairman of the Committee on Health and the Environment in the Council, according to a statement received "Sky Press," that "Iraqi officials who concluded a licensing rounds with foreign oil companies did not care much environmental side, most of the companies did not comply with standards and environmental determinants."
"The oil companies contracting within the licenses, mostly rounds using an old environmentally friendly methods in the extraction of oil because it is inexpensive compared to the tummy tuck," pointing out that "the environmental pollution caused by oil projects has led to increased rates of cancer and diseases of the respiratory tract between residents of the territories neighboring oil fields, and in some of those areas got cancer rate to 10%. "
"The oil industry make up the backbone of the national economy, but this does not justify the threat to the safety of citizens and the destruction of the environment, and therefore must be preserved Basra environment from pollution by the failure of oil projects, especially air pollution from greenhouse gas emissions."
The Chairperson of the Committee on Health and the Environment in the provincial council that "the Council prepared a study for the violations and environmental violations committed by the oil companies, through their work," noting that "the Council going to raise some environmental violations fatal to the courts to force the oil companies, contrary to the obligation not to inflict further damage to the environmen
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