Delayed recovery of spilled fuel in Tierra Blanca

They evaluated the work of gathering fuel. 

What we continue to see little appreciated workforce, said Luis Ponce Jiménez, Technical Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Veracruz. 

PEMEX announced that this weekend would end up removing the fuel, but the authorities of the Environment of the Government of Veracruz indicated that this work could be delayed. 


-does Finish work tomorrow - I dare not make any statement, makes it necessary for rush jobs because nothing is the removal of fuel if not to be removed which are wastes, which are weeds, Ponce said. 


About 15 meters from the underground outlet there is still plenty of gas accumulated in a trench about 50 meters long and 3 meters wide that has not been withdrawn. 

It was recovered more than 400,000 liters of petrol in the bottom of the bed is still the presence of hydrocarbon, said Franco Rodríguez Osorio, Secretary for Security in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz. 

Involvement of the ecological damage progressed over 20 kilometers in the municipalities of Tierra Blanca and Three Valleys. 

Hundreds of families of about 18 communities suffer pollution. 

Meanwhile affectation spreads because the rains cause the fuel in the Arroyo Hondo travel to other municipalities in the Papaloapan basin in Veracruz.

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