The Yucateco Lagoon is heavily contaminated due to leakage from spent crude oil well heads and pipelines after PEMEX drilling
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 The Yucateco Lagoon is heavily contaminated due to leakage from and breaks in spent crude oil well heads and pipelines left over from PEMEX drilling Numerous abandoned platforms are rusting away in the man made channels of the lagoon
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Location: Villa Benito Juarez Tabasco
Photo credit: © Keith Dannemiller / Alamy / Afripics
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