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- Posted at 5:19 p.m. PST Saturday, March 29, 1997
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- Greenpeace gives Pemex dose of own medicine
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- MEXICO CITY (Reuter) - Members of the Greenpeace
- environmental group threw buckets of oil,
- contaminated water and dead animals at a building
- owned by state oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos
- (Pemex) to protest an oil spill in eastern Mexico,
- local media reports said Saturday.
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- Radio and press reports said Greenpeace activists
- Friday hurled gallons of the polluted water onto
- the steps of Pemex's maritime headquarters in
- Veracruz after scooping it up from the Tecolutla
- River where the spill occurred.
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- ``We are returning to Pemex the rubbish that it has
- spilled into the river. This is nothing compared
- with what has happened and all the dead fish,''
- activist Alejandro Calvillo was quoted as saying by
- Reforma newspaper.
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- On Wednesday, Pemex, a state-owned monopoly,
- confirmed there had been a spill involving an
- oil-and-water mixture of about 264.2 gallons. It
- also said ``at no time was there environmental
- damage nor any danger to the population.''
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- But Mexican environmental groups said the river was
- polluted for up to 26 miles and they also charged
- that Pemex had sought to conceal the mishap for two
- days. Activists said the spill came from the San
- Andres II plant, and damaged a river rich in fish,
- freshwater crabs, oysters and shrimp.
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- The river runs into the Gulf of Mexico in northern
- Veracruz state, about 120 miles east of Mexico
- City.
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- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 11:50:38 +0800 (SST)
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