Post #280,175
3/31/07 11:49:07 AM
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??? Sort of like Alaska?
I don't see anything pointing to removing control from the gov't. Only the forcing that the revenue NOT be horded by the gov't.
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Post #280,183
3/31/07 12:57:20 PM
3/31/07 12:58:12 PM
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Sounds more like a record contract
About as equitable. Like they consulted the RIAA or something.
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Post #280,192
3/31/07 1:59:06 PM
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Re: ??? Sort of like Alaska?
I don't see anything pointing to removing control from the gov't. Only the forcing that the revenue NOT be horded by the gov't. I have not seen the final draft, but in at least one version the oil contracts would be negotiated, signed, and regulated by a special government oversight board. Which would have 3 oil company officials selected by the oil companies and 2 government officials on it, majority rules. Jay
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Post #280,200
3/31/07 2:40:23 PM
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Not that different from before then
as at that time I was working for a company that had most of the contracts for the northern fields.
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Post #280,206
3/31/07 5:33:57 PM
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thats different :-)
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Post #280,194
3/31/07 2:04:33 PM
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Don't take this the wrong way
But, if you are a pessimist and after watching the way the Iraqi occupation has helped the Iraqis, what makes you think that the privatization of 80% of the Iraqi oil fields has much of a chance of helping anyone other than the corporations getting the contracts?
Seamus
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Post #280,199
3/31/07 2:39:02 PM
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But nothing here says how that is to be done
only that revenues from oil be shared with the people equally.
Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry.Adrian Belew
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Post #280,202
3/31/07 3:34:02 PM
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Reveues from existing production
Of which, only about 1/5 of the proven reserves are developed.
That leaves 4/5 to be exploited by outsiders - with only token payments to the citizens.
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Impeach, Indict, Incarcerate, Inject
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Post #280,207
3/31/07 5:37:03 PM
3/31/07 5:51:45 PM
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It doesn't say what the royalities from new production
should be or but the way things have gone for the Iraqis during the war and subsequent occupation doesn't bode well for their getting close to their fair share.
Seamus
Edited by Seamus
March 31, 2007, 05:51:45 PM EDT
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Post #280,214
3/31/07 10:00:47 PM
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You have a vivid imagination
because nothing of the sort is in what you posted.
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