Fire in the Gulf of Mexico could cause irreversible damage to marine life
During a July 5 interview with Aristegui Noticias, the Founder and Executive Director of Azul, Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš, explained how the explosion of a gas pipeline in the Campeche Sound was not an isolated event. In fact, according to figures from the US Coast Guard, more than 40,000 spills have been reported in the Gulf of Mexico between 1973 and 2011. That equates to more than a thousand spills each year. Yes, one thousand…
“We have to start talking about the damage in a more complex context. That fire was put out with nitrogen, one of the worst pollutants in the Gulf of Mexico,” Gutiérrez-Graudiņš said in the interview.
Click here to watch the full interview (in Spanish).