PEMEX contract workers attempt to reclaim land at the site of a crude oil spill in the Cinco Presidentes field, Tabasco, Mexico
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 PEMEX contract workers attempt to reclaim land at the site of an October 2006 crude oil spill in the Cinco Presidentes field near Villa Benito Juarez Tabasco The process consists of manually transferring petroleum saturated earth to dugout canoes and then to the shore using a back hoe
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Location: Villa Benito Juarez Tabasco
Photo credit: © Keith Dannemiller / Alamy / Afripics
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