Southern Iraq’s Basra Energy Commission to raise case against Oil Ministry for Shell Contract

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: The Chairman of southern Iraq’s Basra Council, Farid Khalid, has said on Thursday that his Council would raisea judicial case against Iraq’s Ministry of Oil for “its marginalization of the role of Basra‘s government,” during its negotiations and signingof a contract with the International Shell and Mitsubishi Companies to carry out some projects in Basra Province. “It was supposed that the Gas Contract should have been signed with Shell in Basra and not in Baghdad, and we did not expect theopposite,” Khalid told IraqiNews.com news agency, adding: “Basra‘s Council was taken by surprise to notice the said act, as we wantedto add a condition on both Shell and Mitsubishi Companies to carry out some projects for the interest of Basra.”. The Basra Official said that his Council “would raise a judicial case, demanding our constitutional right, due to what Basra is suffering,due to pollution and absence of farms and the transformation of the soil,” adding: “We must get some benefits from those 2 Companies,such as health and social development projects, etc.” SKH (PT) 99