2023-07-19 04:22:14
They denounce the “complete opacity” of the authorities. Several NGOs, including Greenpeace, reported on Tuesday an oil leak covering 400 km2 in the Gulf of Mexico, near a gas production platform whose explosion and fire killed two workers on July 7.
The leak, confirmed by satellite images according to NGOs, began around July 4, they said in a statement criticizing the “complete opacity” of the authorities around this oil leak.
A “minimal” leak
The state-owned company Pemex later in the day admitted a leak, relating to a “volume of hydrocarbons” which is “minimal”. “Most of the spilled volume was recovered immediately,” Pemex added in its statement.
Pemex denounced the “bad faith estimate” of the NGOs: “To be true, more than one and a half million barrels of oil would have had to be spilled”. The company, however, did not mention the satellite images that the associations broadcast.
NGOs have pointed to a 152% increase in accident frequency over the past two years. Industrial flagship of national sovereignty, Pemex drags a debt of 107.4 billion dollars.
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