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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 09 October 2018
In brief: Mexico
*Mexico’s state-owned oil company Pemex has announced that operations have resumed in an oil pipeline situated on private land in the municipality of Nanchital, Veracruz state, after it suffered an oil spill last week. The damage to the pipeline leading to the spill was the result of acts of vandalism, says Pemex. According to local media, the civil protection agency had to help evacuate 300 locals following the spill. Local environmental organisations reportedly criticised Pemex’s slow response, fearing that run-off from the spill could reach the nearby Coatzacoalcos river and impact flora and fauna. Veracruz state governor Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares assured that there would be no negative impacts on the environment, and said that only 96 people had been evacuated.
