FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30 / 1 DECEMBER 2011 09:10
Twilight News / Ministry of Environment announced, on Thursday, they were given the oil ministry given six months to end the use of lead poison in the treatment of fuel, gasoline, while it confirmed that the percentage of lead in air, "to worry", I expected the arrival rate in the air to the standards are dangerous in the past two or the next three.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Environment, Kamal Hussein nice for "Twilight News", "The oil ministry asked for another chance to mid-2013 to end the use of lead in the treatment of fuel, but the Ministry of Environment has not agreed to this deadline."
He added a nice "The Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Oil was awarded six months for the use of Isomerization in the treatment of fuel and gasoline instead of lead is supposed to end the period mid-2012."
He continued to spectrum "It's worrying now and if it continues to be the case we will reach the standards for lead in the air dangerous to the lives of citizens, especially with the presence of many cars in the country", believing that "the bullets in the air during the two or three will be about hazardous to health and the environment."
The Ministry of the Environment has expressed earlier about the great concern of the high lead levels in the atmosphere of Iraq to more than ten times the normal limit of the decision, and the longer the oil ministry using a substitute him for the production of gasoline enhanced because it is the main reason for the high proportion of lead in the air, warning that this ratio will be a real threat during the next three years to public health.
The Oil Ministry earlier expressed willingness to cooperate with all agencies to verify the effects caused by material Othilat fourth lead used to improve the benzene.
The ministry spokesman Assem Jihad, Oil played earlier, the importance of risk contain benzene used in the stations Iraqi rule fourth Othilat lead with a direct impact on the health of children, pointing out that the Ministry uses material fourth Athilat lead ratios are very low, as well as it does not import gasoline that contains this article.
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