Negotiations ease threat to Kurdistan gas pipeline
After political mediation, a local leader in Chemchemal has eased off threats to cut the KRG's main gas pipeline, but tensions remain high.
The Khor Mor LPG plant in Iraqi Kurdistan in May 2013. (JACOB RUSSELL/Metrography/Iraq Oil Report)
CHEMCHEMAL - A local leader has relaxed his threats to cut a key natural gas pipeline in rural Kurdistan, raising hopes that a volatile standoff might be resolved through negotiation.
Abdullah Kwekha Mubarak, a member of the national council of the Gorran political party, had given a two-day deadline for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to comply with a list of demands, or else he would sever a pipeline that is necessary for generating about 60 percent of Kurdistan's electricity. Mubarak has already excavated a section of the pipeline about 5 kilometers north of Chemchemal town.
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