US EditionAfter Weeks of Denials, Pemex Admits Responsibility for Gulf Coast Oil Spill
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First silence and evasives, then attempts to get rid of responsibility and, now, a sort of retraction. 46 days after the first alerts for the arrival of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, Pemex has admitted on Thursday that the spill did originate - since February 8th - in one of its facilities. THE COUNTRY had revealed on March 30, with the help of the CartoCrítica organization, that the parastatal had hired the ship Tree Grande to repair a leak in a s…
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eldiariodechihuahua.mxMP said to demand that Nahle apologize publicly for lying about the hydrocarbon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Environmental activists and affected fishermen assured that the dismissal of three Pemex coordinators is not enough and demanded the resignation of the director of the oil company, Víctor Rodríguez, who they hold responsible for the management of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico. They accuse him of incapacity, cover-up and of having deceived President Claudia Sheinbaum, after the oil company admitted -two months later - that the cause was a leak …
Mexico City, 17 Apr (EFE).- The Oceana organization described this Friday as “necessary but insufficient steps” the public admission of responsibility of the state of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) for the hydrocarbon spill that contaminated the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the separation of three officials from the oil company. In addition, it warned that there is still a lack of thorough investigations, comprehensive repair of the damage and a fund…
After weeks of denials, Pemex admits responsibility for Gulf Coast oil spill
The government finally admitted what it had denied for weeks: The oil that began washing up along 700 kilometers of Gulf of Mexico coastline in February did indeed originate from Pemex facilities. An official investigation revealed that a leak had been detected in early February, but was deliberately hidden by operational divisions within the state-run oil company. More than two months after the spill, a panel of government experts this week co…
Two months later, despite evasive federal and state authorities, they confirmed that the oil spill that affected the beaches of Veracruz and the Gulf of Mexico originated in a leak in a Mexican oil pipeline (Pemex).Since February, shortly after the first traces of hydrocarbons reached the coast of Veracruz, Rocío Nahle, governor of the entity; President Claudia Sheinbaum; Alicia Bárcena, secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, and other …
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