A flagship refinery planned by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wou...
MEXICO CITY - A flagship refinery planned by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador would have a “severe” impact on air quality and emissions could spread to nearby towns, according to an environmental study produced by state oil company Pemex and reviewed by Reuters.
The report drafted by Petroleos Mexicanos, as Pemex is officially known, was submitted on June 12 to Mexico’s oil industry environmental regulator ASEA, which has about three months to review it. The $8 billion refinery, to be located in the Gulf Coast port of Dos Bocas in Lopez Obrador’s home state of Tabasco, was a signature campaign promise of the left-leaning energy nationalist.
The redacted sections of the document showed that, while most environmental impacts were deemed to be moderate, a “severe” impact was expected on air quality once operations started at the refinery, which is expected to process up to 340,000 barrels per day of heavy crude oil. He noted the emissions assessment is largely based on data from Pemex’s inland Tula refinery, which features very different atmospheric conditions than the coastal Dos Bocas site, meaning that expected emissions could be very different.
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