PEMEX will be the company responsible in an attempt to reduce the country’s dependence on natural gas imports from the US, which currently accounts for 75 percent of national consumption. ”Sustainable fracking” is one of the proposed ways of achieving this.
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During his visit to Mexico, the UN Special Rapporteur on toxic substances and human rights highlighted cases of river and water pollution in the country and warned about increasing industrialization with fossil fuel projects, oil spills, and waste management.
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The communities of region have opposed the superhighway project and it was originally suspended. However, in February 2025, the current Chiapas government published two agreements to hold a consultation on the highway.
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”MODEVITE denounces that the government is imposing this infrastructure project through harassment, conditioning the delivery of social programs like Sembrando Vida (Sowing Life), threatening to deploy the elite State Police unit known as the Pakal Immediate Reaction Force (FRIP), and various other forms of manipulation.”
On June 18th, the Secretary for the Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, signed an agreement to promote equitable and sustainable mining in Mexico. The Cambiémosla Ya collective responded by saying that ”There is no sustainable mining, nor can there be equitable benefit sharing without the participation and consent of the communities, who own the territories where the minerals are found. ”
