Oil field workers at an oil field service camp along the banks of the Narvaez Canal in the Centla Biosphere Reserve

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With known reserves of oil and natural gas diminishing rapidly at wells in the Gulf of Mexico Petroleos Mexicanos PEMEX has increased drilling operations on land and in the rivers of the Mexican state of Tabasco But three decades of exploitation of the state s petroleum reserves have produced an ecological nightmare with oil spills toxic run off and natural gas flaring being common occurences An oil field service camp along the banks of the Narvaez Canal in the Centla Biosphere Reserve used to construct a floating pipeline Oil workers from camera right Fermín Hernández Chávez Juan González Lázaro Hernández Castillo

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Size: 5120px × 3427px
Location: José Maria Pino Suarez Tabasco
Photo credit: © Keith Dannemiller / Alamy / Afripics
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