US EditionOil Spill Disrupts Livelihoods in Mexico's Veracruz State
Over a dozen spill sites have been detected since March 1, threatening fish and shrimp farming and impacting local tourism, environmental group Cemda reported.
- Since March 1, coastal residents in Veracruz have found hardened tar and viscous oil washing up on beaches, while Cemda identified over a dozen spill sites along Veracruz and neighbouring Tabasco.
- Pemex denied any leak from its facilities this week, stating the company has been linked to incidents in recent years, including an October leak recovering 2.7 million liters from the Pantepec River in Veracruz.
- Aurora Apolonia Martinez, a fisherwoman, said nets came up full of oil and unusable, while tourism has been hit, with visits discouraged and Nicolás Vargas warning beaches must be fully cleaned.
- With no official cause disclosed, authorities have not told residents what caused the spill, and Pemex said it would carry out surveillance but did not immediately provide new information when asked.
- Veracruz's heavy oil activity frames the spill's significance, as Veracruz, Mexico, is heavy on oil activity on land and at sea, increasing contamination risks for Jicacal and Las Barrillas, Veracruz, fishing villages and tourist destinations.
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VERACRUZ – Greenpeace has reportedly expressed its regret over the oil spill affecting beaches in southern Veracruz, which has spread to 16 coastal locations between the Veracruz municipality of Pajapan and Paraíso, in the state of Tabasco. It should be noted that authorities and fishermen reported the oil spill on Sunday. […]
Dead oil-covered turtles have been found in the Los Arrecifes community, a dead manatee in Coatzacoalcos and oil-affected fish.
Since March 1, a serious environmental contingency has kept the coastal communities of Tabasco and Veracruz on alert. A massive oil spill originating in the high seas has dyed the coasts of southeastern Mexico black, seriously affecting these two states, a few weeks after the start of Lent, the “black stain” [...]
Mexico City Disinform ourselves. Communities affected by the oil spill on the coasts of Veracruz and Tabasco, which has been continuing for three days south of the state, denounced the ecocide and ethnocide that has caused in the marine ecosystem and the impacts on fishing and its community life. “This ecocide is being an ethnocide itself, because it is damaging our ethnicity as such, our culture, the traditions of fishing, in our case as origi…
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