President Sheinbaum and Governor Durazo Meet the Sonora River: Start Remediation
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Ures, Son., Twelve years after the acidified copper spill caused by Grupo México in the Bacanuchi and Sonora rivers, the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) announced that according to recent studies carried out in the basin, metal concentrations persist above the limits established for agricultural soils. Based on this, it announced the second stage of remediation in the area.
After 12 years of waiting, inhabitants of the eight villages of the Sonora River have a concrete response to meet one of the most felt social and environmental demands in the region, with the beginning of a new stage of remediation promoted by Governor Alfonso Durazo Montaño and supported by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, which contemplates a resource of 654 million pesos.
Hermosillo, Sonora, on August 14, 2026 “12 years after the toxic spill of August 6, 2014, the communities of the Sonora River will be given justice with a plan of action that includes access to drinking water, river remediation, environmental monitoring and a public hospital to care for their health. This is the result of the humanist vision of the Fourth Transformation, which guarantees people social justice and environmental justice,” said Sen…
The secretary of Environment, Alicia Bárcena, said work is being done on a plan to establish treatment plants in the region. The position Invested 654 mdp in remediation of the Sonora River appeared first in Eleven News.
More than a decade after the worst environmental disaster in the history of Mexican mining, this Wednesday’s quote in Ures about the so-called “remediation actions” of the Sonora River rekindles the alarms of outrage. What should be an act of historical accountability threatens to become, once again, the same bureaucratic theater as always: a complacent presidium, sweet speeches and obvious institutional complicity to wash the face of Grupo Mexi…
12 years after the spill that Grupo Mexico caused in the Bacanuchi and Sonora rivers, the Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) presented this Wednesday in Ures, Sonora, the second stage of the rehabilitation program of the basin, focused on recovering soils, monitoring the quality of the water and attending to the effects that persist [...] The Semarnat charge starts second stage of remediation of the Sonora river appe…
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