Venezuela's opposition María Gabriela Hernández on Monday denounced a new oil spill due to “disused pipes” of state-owned company PDVSA in western Monagas state.
“We raise our voice to denounce, once again, the oil spill by disused pipelines in the area of La Pica in Maturín (capital of Monagas). This is the visible reflection of Pdvsa, at the moment in many places in Venezuela we see the same devastation for not having an environmental and reparative policy,” said the former deputy on her Twitter account.
Hernández indicated that on a journey of almost three kilometers through the area of La Pica, he was able to see animals killed as a result of this spill.
“Ecosystems that help mitigate greenhouse gases generated by PDVSA are killed for not making objections reported four years ago,” he stressed.
On March 25, the Venezuelan Observatory for Environmental Human Rights stated that, between 2016 and 2021, it documented 199 oil spills in Venezuela, which, it assured, in the “vast majority” of cases, were not reported by the authorities.
“In the period 2016-2021, there were reports of 199 oil spills, including a gasoline spill. There is a growing trend in the number of spills, from 12 in the first two years, to 68 in 2021,” the organization said in the report “Oil Spills in Venezuela”, published on its website.
He also argued that these spills affected 15 regions of the country and more than 90% of those reported occurred in the states of Anzoátegui, Monagas, Zulia, Sucre, Falcón and Carabobo.
“On the other hand, in the vast majority of cases, neither the state-owned oil company PDVSA nor the national authorities provided information on the characteristics of the spill, nor its possible impacts. Likewise, in no case did they assume responsibility for them”, he stressed.
For the NGO, this situation indicates that the Venezuelan State is “ignoring” its obligations under the human rights framework, as well as national laws and international agreements and commitments on environmental management and conservation.
The observatory recommended the re-establishment of policies, technical standards and procedures aimed at the prevention, control and mitigation of oil spills with a human rights perspective.
(With information from EFE)
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