A hydrocarbon spill is contaminating a beach in the state of Carabobo, in the north of Venezuelaas denounced this Wednesday by activists of oil organizations and environmentalists, a fact about which the state-owned PDVSA has not provided information.
The organization Oil Peoplewhich brings together former workers from the national energy industry, assured EFE that the leak began on Tuesday in the El Palito refineryone of the largest complexes in the country, located in front of the Caribbean Sea.
“We do not know the amount of hydrocarbons that was spilled (…) we know that the constant rains overflowed the oxidation lagoon in which the waste was stored“said the group’s coordinator, Beatriz García, who highlighted the importance of the authorities explaining if there was a failure in the drainage system.
As a result of this, the “beach was filled with hydrocarbon, it is all contaminated“, stressed the representative of the organization, which has counted 17 “events of this type that have affected communities, biodiversity and seabeds”.
Numerous photographs and videos circulate on social networks showing the blackened seashore as well as personnel from PDVSA working on cleaning a beach which, according to local media, is close to the refinery.
For its part, the Blue Environmentalists Foundation He assured on X (formerly Twitter) that this “environmental disaster” harms the resorts of Puerto Cabello, a tourist area located about 200 kilometers from Caracas.
Last June, the NGO Political Ecology Observatory (OEP) indicated that the country registered 86 oil spills during 2022, three of them in the state of Carabobo.
Source: Gestion
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