| 19.05.2009 - $8bln Kurdish plan rejected |
| From Gulf-daily-news.com: The Iraqi government on Monday rejected an $8 billion Kurdish plan to fill the Nabucco pipeline with gas for Europe, a major setback to a project designed to reduce the continent's reliance on Russian energy. Opposition in Baghdad to the deal to obtain gas from Iraq's Kurdistan region hands Russia the initiative as it races to complete its own alternative to the Western-backed pipeline and tighten its grip on European energy markets.........Full Article: Source |