US EditionTurns the 4t in Front of the Fracking
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“Ideology is usually the language with which decisions already taken for other reasons are justified.”Albert O. Hirschman“Energy policy is too important to be left in the hands of rhetoric.” (adaptation on Daniel Yergin)For years, fracking was the favorite villain of the 4T. Contaminant, neoliberal, almost capital sin. Andrés Manuel López Obrador made it a symbol of what was wrong in the energy industry: looting, abuse, privatization disguised. …
President Claudia Sheinbaum clarified why, despite sharing the same nation project that former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gave yes to fracking, while her predecessor resisted implementing this method to obtain natural gas. She commented that there is now technology that could reduce the environmental impact of traditional fracking, with processes that would replace the use of water and not depend on “powerful chemicals” for the exploi…
The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has unequivocally announced the opening of her government to fracking—or hydraulic fracturing—to extract gas from the subsoil, in order to reduce the imports of that resource from the United States. The announcement has followed months of subtle movements and ambiguous speeches, launched as balloons probe to prepare the ground without awakening so much controversy. Environmentalist organizations and prog…
In a change of position, the Government of President Claudia Sheinbaum opened the door to an issue that former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised not to authorize: the exploitation of gas through hydraulic fracture or fracking. Although the approach of the President is that this exploitation be done under a new approach that prioritizes the reduction of environmental impact, in fact it is a change of vision that contrasts with the po…
The exploitation of natural gas through fracking can only be done by the private sector, said Xóchitl Gálvez, former Secretary of the Energy Commission of the Senate of the Republic. From that body, the former presidential candidate permanently censored former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for opposing the practice of fracking (stone rupture to extract gas). In a turn in the energy policy of the 4T, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced …
Mexico City Disinform ourselves. Organizations and communities denounced that the federal government opened the door to fracking in Mexico after recent statements by President Claudia Sheinbaum, which represents a turn in the face of its campaign commitment not to allow this technique. The positioning warns that the current energy policy is committed to fossil gas as a strategic axis, despite the fact that its main component, methane, contribut…
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