Fracking threatens 'Sembrando Vida' program; They foresee impacts on national production in Mexico

Fresh Orange

Published Nov 30, 2023

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An investigation by CartoCrítica and the Mexican Alliance against Fracking has revealed that more than 38,000 units of the Sembrando Vida program, representing a significant portion of the country's orange and vanilla production, are at risk due to the impacts of fracking in Chiapas, Veracruz, and Tabasco. Fracking can cause brines, emissions, pollution, and hydrocarbon spills that can harm surrounding crops, including those linked to the Sembrando Vida program. If fracking continues in these areas, it poses a threat to the livelihoods of peasant families and contradicts the program's objectives of sustainable development and environmental conservation.

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More than 38 thousand productive units of the Sembrando Vida program, which represent 31 percent of national orange production and 51 percent of vanilla production, are in danger due to the impacts related to fracking, especially in Chiapas, Veracruz and Tabasco, according to an investigation carried out by CartoCrítica and the Mexican Alliance against Fracking. Fracking generates brines, emissions, pollution, water shortages and hydrocarbon spills, which has the potential to affect the productivity of surrounding crops, including thousands of plots linked to the Sembrando Vida program. This emerges from the report "Fracking the countryside. Potential impacts of fracking on agriculture and Sembrando Vida", prepared by Carla Flores Lot and Manuel Llano, members of CartoCrítica and the Mexican Alliance against Fracking. According to the National Hydrocarbons Commission, in 2019 in Mexico there were 7,840 fractured wells distributed in 68 municipalities of seven entities, ...

Source: Milenio