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Parliamentary source: the oil and energy working in the base

Unread postby Stillw8n » Thu Nov 03, 2011 9:34 am

Parliamentary source: the oil and energy working in the basement of Parliament wet without the Internet and control the fate of the largest in the world does not know of any wells is more important

BAGHDAD – Abbas Zaidi
A source leading parliamentarian said in an interview with the “world”, said the Commission on oil and energy in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, which oversees the largest oil reserves in the world, working in conditions of miserable too, because they do not have sufficiently familiar with the reports of oil produced by news agencies, research centers, prestigious, and it derives its information from only the Oil Ministry, while a monopoly on recent data.
The source says that the committee which is the “richest and wealthiest” commissions because “the scent of oil”, located inside of the basement of Parliament in the room moist without the Internet, which monitors all contracts and legislation pertaining to the oil industry and energy, but does not include only two people hold the qualifications close to work Committee of the 18 deputies. He confirmed that the committee members are unaware of the amount of exports of oil and they do not know what is the largest oil well in the country, and do not know the form of the well up.

He adds that the committee members do not care for the importance of oil and more tempted by politics, because they came from partisan backgrounds, and make up for their ignorance of using executive officials in return for guaranteeing to keep them in office and protect them from political conflicts. He also points out that if the Commission is reflected in all parliamentary committees.

In an interview with the “world,” says the source in force in the House, refused to reveal his identity, said that “the Commission on oil and energy of 18 5 staff member helps others, and that only two members of the committee hold the qualifications in the field of oil and electricity.”

He explains that “of the oil, which are among the most important parliamentary committees working in very difficult circumstances, because it is not no other committees have the potential to help them activate their oversight and legislative jurisdiction in the area.”

He also points out that “the Commission does not have completed a certain period of life of the Parliament, but to discuss the oil and gas, which underwent a politicization of the great, in addition to hosting and oil and electricity ministers who are satisfied usually submit reports inadequate” and states that “even corrupted files contracts of electricity revealed by the press and media and the Committee was the last of the works. “
And on the supervisory role of the Commission and relate to the corresponding committees in local governments, our source says, “There are no direct contacts between the Commission on oil and energy with local governments, and found it attempts a character in the framework of activity of Representatives within their provinces.”
He emphasizes, “the control non-existent in all the committees and not the oil, because the House is not prescribed, but is expected bills from the government and therefore does not have any initiative until this moment,” persisting “As for the work of the oil: most do not know the axioms of the most wealth, they do not know how Iraq produces oil and how much of the issue, and is the largest oil well, but they do not know the form fields and wells and reservoirs at all. ” He continues his “ministries monopoly on information, not to inform the competent committees except as it pleases is often deprived of the information we request, and be deprived by order minister,” he adds, “how to get members of the Commission on oil and gas information and the Commission does not have the internet, good speed, and look at the news agencies and reports of research centers concerned with oil. “
And how to fight the House of Representatives would specialty and technical unaware, source says he “does not have the oil and energy, only one adviser but is not effective,” he adds, “most of the House of Representatives will help them officials, executives in the ministries to advise against giving them support to stay in office and protect them from conflicts in ministries.” .

And on the role of the Forum Secretariat and consultants in providing aid and assistance to members of the committees, indicates the source high “Committees do not have advisers who are competent and specialists, The Committee on Foreign Relations employ counsel holds a Diploma in Accounting has been working in the Shorja before 2003, either secretarial understanding staff Mketbon nothing to do with the competence of the committees.”

And on the workshops, development and conferences involving Employees of the committees, he replies, “The workshops are usually non-specialist, and has not the House of Representatives to send employees to specialized courses, either international conferences, they share the content with writing reports and the activities of parliamentarians only and does not learn about the experiences of their counterparts.”

And the other powers of the Commission on oil and energy, the source says that “the electricity, gas and even water enters at the heart of the Commission’s work, but the latter has become the jurisdiction of the Commission services was one of the files after the Energy Commission.”
He continued that “the Commission does not know how much of Iraq consumes fuel to produce electricity or monitor how much money each year to import fuel,” but he asserts that “the Ministry of Electricity in the Maliki government spent the first 27 billion dollars on this file.”
It notes that “talk about the electricity issue is somewhat complex and difficult for many members of the Commission on oil and energy, and the biggest example of this failure of Parliament to dismiss the single cream and former minister of electricity, because the latter was speaking technical information unknown to most of Representatives.”
And reveals that “the single was appointed the post of adviser in the cabinet despite the criticism and the popular demonstrations which blamed him for failing to restore electricity.”

And the relationship of the oil and energy ministries concerned, the source says Parliament that “the relationship with the ministries of oil and electricity the previous two were characterized Mounacfh, especially as Chairman of the Committee the previous was a deputy of the Kurdish alliance and its relationship with Baghdad is difficult, but the relationship at the moment are a little cooperation and coordination with the Minister Karim Laibi existence Adnan al-Janabi, a member of the president of the Iraqi List. “

The source notes at the end of his talk of “the world” that “the development of the oil and gas is a model of what is happening in the rest of the committees, but is general in nature to the whole work of the parliament.”

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