July 5, 2010Hashemi calls for an investigation on the export of fuel to Iraq, Oil: Information exaggerated and inaccurate
بغداد ـ طه حسين Baghdad, Taha Hussein
Called on Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, the Council of Ministers to open an urgent investigation on the reports concerning the export of toxic fuel to Iraq, played down the Oil Ministry significance of these reports, calling them exaggerated and inaccurate.
A statement issued by the Information Office of the Vice-President, received a «morning» copy of it: that al-Hashemi called on the Council of Ministers and the relevant government authorities to the need for urgent investigation to verify the reports which he described as »of concern» for the export of fuel Medal of Iraq, leading to loss brain in children, as well as by U.S. forces engulf large amounts of toxins in the environment presents Iraqi territory to serious pollution.
Asked Vice-President and Ministry of Environment prepared urgent reports include requiring the U.S. side to stop importing fuel use poison and investigate those responsible for the import and disposal of toxic substances immediately and assess the environmental damage caused by it and develop a plan to address the effects, as well as the United States claim that those responsible for this process justice and fair compensation and to provide firm guarantees against a recurrence.
The British newspaper The Guardian cited a newspaper report pointed to the presence of toxic substances in the fuel source for the Iraq cause damage to healthy humans and the environment, but the oil ministry downplayed the significance of the information contained in the report, describing it as exaggerated and inaccurate . The spokesman said the ministry's information Assem Jihad told Asharq »Sabah» that the Ministry will verify the information contained in the report, noting that the article's fourth Athilat lead referred to in the report which is considered an effective use routinely in most countries of the world to improve the quality of gasoline produced from refineries local, because Add this article in accordance with rates internationally certified and imported by the ministry according to international standards, the standard raise Octinat gasoline product.
He Jihad said the ministry would end the use of chemical additives in petroleum products through the establishment of units refining advanced environmentally-friendly, attributing reasons for the delay the use of such refineries advanced to the country's vulnerability to the siege and war for over three decades, warning that the ministry is still imports 40 percent of the country's need of gasoline which is free of material fourth Athilat lead and the mixing with the local product, which contains low estimated one per ten percent to reduce the effects.
Alsabah
