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Paid bribes to officials at the Ministry of Oil to import .. British company - continue to export American fuel 'poisoned' to Iraq
15/01/2013 12:00 am
The future of Iraq / Farid Mahmoud
newspaper, "The Independent" British continued British American Oil Company exported fuel that contains tetraethyl lead to Iraq. The Ministry of Environment has announced two years ago that it had granted the Oil Ministry a six-month deadline to end the use of toxic lead in the treatment of gasoline. I have asked the Ministry of Oil another chance to mid-2013 to end the use of lead in fuel treatment, but the Ministry of the Environment did not agree to this deadline. And returned the Ministry of Environment in the November 13, 2012 to demand not to import material tetra Othilat lead within the fuel refining process, stressing the need for coordination with the ministries of oil and on improving the quality of health. This means that the deadline given by the Ministry of Oil has been ignored one or both parties.
said the British newspaper The oil company British American has sold fuel containing lead toxic poorest countries, which suffer from instability, and pay bribes to officials of those countries for the continuation of sales of fuel in that country. The newspaper reported that the company - a U.S. property but still keeps many of its plants in the United Kingdom - are guilty of bribing foreign officials to keep the sales of fuel poison in addition to its continued sale of chemicals out of the country for developing countries is stable, although it bears responsibility damage human health over the long term and may be involved in violent crimes. She added that the environmental organizations called on the British government to impose a ban on a company Onossbek (Oktal previously) because of the allegations against it as the only company in the world that still produce fuel contains tetraethyl lead, and export more of that article. The newspaper pointed out that the fourth-ethyl material use was banned on British roads but still legal in 6 states "poor" are Iraq, Algeria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Burma and North Korea. She noted that the company planned to stop production and sales of fuel that contains a fourth ethyl by the end of 2012, but returned and put a new deadline at the end of this year to stop dealing in this chemical that reaped them profits many. The newspaper noted that the magazine Mother Jones U.S. highlighted light this week on studies linking the use of that substance in the fuel in the seventies of the last century and the dramatic rise in cases of violence, and the twenty-year period showed the damage caused by this toxic substance on children over time, including the negative impact on the nervous system and the decline rate Intelligence have before reaching the age of puberty. And a British scientists said in remarks to The Independent that there is a need for more studies to good documentation of the impact of substance tetraethyl lead on the nervous system of children, which causes violent behavior. A scientific study by the University of Babylon in the sixth from last October for the high proportion of lead in the milk of lactating mothers in the province over the allowable ratios internationally. It quoted a news agency a source in the university declined to be named, as saying that "the study included a group of lactating women through the analysis of milk Aredanh for their children, has been shown to lead ratios which exceed normal rates permitted internationally dozens of times." The source said that "the reasons for the high proportion of lead in breast milk due to water and air pollution as a result of high rates of car exhaust in the province and the adoption of these cars a gasoline saturated shot contrary to what is happening in the countries of the world which are used as fuel environmentally friendly." He added that "the high proportion of lead in breast milk successor generations of children suffer a severe shortage of intelligence and desire hostile behavior public, as well as causing this element dangerous from various illnesses may appear in the later stages of the infant." Explained the British newspaper that the risks arising from This type of lead have led to the prohibition of the use of fuel that contains it from use in the richer countries of the seventies of the last century. Britain was the last country prevented its use, as they use it just stopped in 1999. She was sure that the company Onossbek still issued a leaded fuel to Iraq, Yemen, Algeria, and the company acknowledged that it still sells fuel to a limited number of countries. The newspaper reported that it had been condemned since the company two years before the British courts and the U.S. on charges of offering bribes to officials in Iraq and Indonesia to ensure the continuation of exports of the fuel during the period between 2000 to 2008, also approved the company that it paid bribes to the working group the Iraqi Oil Ministry in 2006 for that purpose as well.
said that the company had recognized in the summer of 2010 to pay bribes of millions of dollars to officials in Iraq and Indonesia to use tetra-ethyl lead, despite the health risks, according to a policy aimed at increasing the company's profits. She said lead fourth ethyl added for the first time to the fuel in 1922 when he discovered the American chemist Thomas Magele it helps to burn fuel slowly and more smoothly, but it was discovered that adding lead harms human health for thousands of years, and that many of the workers companies who have added that article to the gasoline in the twenties of the last century have died, and the discoverer add fuel Lead died as a result of poisoning due to this type of fuel. The Ministry of Environment announced several times for great concern the high levels of lead in the atmosphere Iraq to more than ten times the normal limit of the decision, demanding the Ministry of Oil using a substitute him for the production of reformulated gasoline because the main reason for the high proportion of lead in the air, warning that this percentage will be dangerous real over the next three years to public health.
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