“Until and unless we get more information from Pemex, we won’t know how bad this was,” he said. The global heating impact of methane is 84 time higher over 20 years than that of carbon dioxide, which is produced when it is burned. Lorne Stockman, senior research analyst at Oil Change International, said the pipeline could have been leaking for a while before the gas caught fire. He described the lack of transparency in Mexico’s energy sector as “very problematic”. Pablo Ramirez, an energy and climate campaigner for Greenpeace Mexico, told Climate Home News that it was impossible to calculate the carbon footprint of the gas leak because there is no public information about the amount of gas usually transported by the pipeline. It blamed the rupture on ageing, poorly maintained infrastructure. Greenpeace Mexico accused Pemex, the state-owned company operating the pipeline, of causing “ecocide” in the Gulf of Mexico, citing the toxic properties and climate impact of methane gas. But with little faith in the Mexican authorities, they are looking to regional allies to hold Pemex to account. “ There was no oil spill and the immediate action taken to control the surface fire avoided environmental damage,” the company said in a statement.Ĭampaigners disagree, demanding an investigation into the environmental and climate damage caused by the fire. Pemex said a lightning storm ignited a gas leak from an underwater pipeline. A gas leak from a ruptured pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico fuelled a huge blaze which raged for five hours on the sea surface. Over the weekend the world watched in horror as the ocean caught fire.
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