Iraqi oil experts: Don't rush oil, gas law

[joanc1963]

http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/19661

Baghdad, 19 July 2007 (Voices of Iraq)

A total of 108 Iraqi oil experts called on the Iraqi parliament on Wednesday not to rush into passing the law on oil and gas, one of the most controversial laws on the Iraqi political scene.

The controversial law was recently ratified by the Iraqi cabinet after a number of Shura Council amendments were made to it, described by the government as "peripheral." The law was referred to the parliament for approval and is currently under discussion by its committees. The current draft gives foreign investors the right to set up refineries and oil facilities and to invest in them for 50 years, after which they will belong to the Iraqi government.

[po-cajun]

Don't rush!!!! They been working on it for a year plus.. How much more time do they need while our soldiers are being killed for these fools....
Oh --I forgot not including vacation time!!!!

[oil4$]

http://kevxml2a.verizon.net/_1_4U9TO...&feed=ap&top=1


Looks like we will have things moving a little faster now I hoooope.

[baz]

Don't rush!!!! They been working on it for a year plus.. How much more time do they need while our soldiers are being killed for these fools....
Oh --I forgot not including vacation time!!!!

You took the words right out of my mouth on this one, I would think if you said to any Iraq "RUSH" he would go and cut some from the river bank of the Tigris......thats the only rush they seem to know.

[po-cajun]

http://kevxml2a.verizon.net/_1_4U9TO...&feed=ap&top=1


Looks like we will have things moving a little faster now I hoooope.

Don't kid yourself..... with these fools!!!

[Grizzly Bear]

Hey why rush??? The "skilled oil workers" are making a wopping $8/usd/day!!! let the economy roar! REVAL for crying out loud!!!

[jabt1979]

Like they have rushed so fast, they burned holes in their sandals!!! They have accomplished 8 of the 18 benchmarks. Average grade C

WOW, look out they want things to slow down. With their speed of light, darkest will remain.

But I shell remain positive…I see a tiny light at the end of the tunnel.

[exoilman]

Like they have rushed so fast, they burned holes in their sandals!!! They have accomplished 8 of the 18 benchmarks. Average grade C

WOW, look out they want things to slow down. With their speed of light, darkest will remain.

But I shell remain positive…I see a tiny light at the end of the tunnel.

Yea they are slow but what we have to remember is these people have been fighting one another for hundreds of years. I would like this investment to be done already but we will have to have patients. For them to have 8 of the "benchmarks" done or at least started is amazing IMHO. There is a lot of distrust between them. Then I look at our Politicans and say what have you got done and they are friends I think. We will just have to be patient and yes I see a little light also. Thanks. JMHO

[kev655]

And they just announced they are still taking a month off because of the "pressure" from the U.S. despite the fact half of them have been boycotting Parliament for a couple of weeks....

So they take a month off and U.S./U.K./other military and innocent Iraqi citizens have to continue dying because the vacation is apparently "constitutional". Article 140 where Kirkuk will be handed to the Kurds is also in the constitution and the Oil Laws but they've managed to skip over that part of the document straight to holiday, passing go and collecting 20Million Dinars!!!

Idiots....

If it wasn't for us (U.S., U.K., other allies) they wouldn't have a constitution that allows them a holiday....

With people now starting to protest it is indeed on a path to an uprising. ALL uprisings start with protests (USSR, Romania, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Georgia, East Germany, etc.) but where Arabs are concerned there is invariably lots of deaths and violence involved....The GoI should sit their collective arses in Parliament 24/7 until they have a relatively stable country or they may be on a road they can't turn back from.

I and many others predicted earlier in the year that if the GoI did not sort the problems out within months then they might start to see dissent from people (strikes, protests). I also said that the rate they were going the 2007 budget may end up being the 2008 budget. We are more than halfway through the year and I hate to say it...but I wish I and the others were wrong but the evidence is there that both these are on their way to being true........

Unfortunately the "light at the end of the tunnel" mentioned above exists but we are like a snail travelling to it from maybe 1000 km away....