Iraq/Kurdistan: KRG Bans Gas Flaring: Minister

Aug 21, 2021 | Rudaw
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The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has ordered oil companies operating in the Kurdistan Region to cease the environmentally harmful practice of gas flaring. “Starting from now, it is illegal to flare a single [cubic] foot,” the Minister of Natural Resources Kamal Atroshi said in an interview with Rudaw’s Sangar Abdulrahman on August 19.