An oil pipeline spill that contaminated a river in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon will take months to clean up, the country’s top water authority said. The 24-inch Madero-Cadereyta pipeline, owned by national oil company Pemex, was ruptured when thieves attempted to tap into it.
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Mexican state-owned petroleum company Pemex’s workers clean the San Juan river after an oil spill caused by a clandestine taking in a pipeline in San Juan Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon state, Mexico, on August 23, 2014. Julio Cesar Aguilar / AFP -
A dead dragonfly, covered in oil, lies on the shore of an irrigation canal that flows into the river San Juan in Cadereyta. Daniel Becerril / Reuters -
A worker uses a shovel to row through leaked oil on the San Juan river in Cadereyta. Daniel Becerril / Reuters
In pictures: Clean-up begins from Mexican oil spill caused by thieves
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