Mexico City, (EFE) .– Environmental organizations denounced that the new Strategic Plan of Pemex 2025–2035 contemplates the use of fracking to increase gas production, under a “energy sustainability” discourse, but that in reality it pursues a “fossil and extractivist approach, completely away from the energy transition”.
The Mexican Alliance against Fracking held in a statement, released this Friday, that the document presented on Tuesday by the Government establishes the use of “complex geology deposits”, euphemism that, according to activists, hides the intention of retaking the hydraulic fracture.
“This (PEMEX Strategic Plan) has among its objectives the increase in gas production through fracking, although they omit in a way to appoint it by saying that they will stimulate complex geology deposits, in a strategy to confuse and hide in front of the citizenship that we have demanded for more than a decade the prohibition of this technique that pollutes and threatens all life forms,” the note says.
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The plan was presented as part of a comprehensive strategy to financially clean up Pemex and increase its production, especially natural gas, but has generated criticisms of the alliance, which described the plan as a betrayal of campaign promises and the environmental policy promoted during the six -year term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
They warned that the commitment to fossil gas, refining and extraction deepens the energy self -sufficiency model based on fossil fuels, without taking into account the effects of climate change or the impact on communities affected by energy megaprojects.
According to the alliance, fracking – hydraulic fracture technique used to extract gas or oil from unconventional deposits – in addition to being contrary to the constitutional obligation of the State to protect human rights and prevent their violations, “it is a betrayal of the affected peoples.”
“For more than 20 years the geological potential of fossil and oil gas in Mexico is in decline. Reserves are insufficient to cover government plans to increase production and cover national demand,” adds the note.
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In addition, it concludes that fossil gas is not a transition fuel, while demanding the Sheinbaum government to speak with the truth and fulfill its environmental commitments.
The alliance is a group of more than 40 civil organizations that since 2013 seeks to prohibit the use of hydraulic fracture or fracking.
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