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logo 11/25/2024 12:57:22 AM     
Global fisheries must change to avoid ocean collapse, study says 
VE Source: lapatilla 9/24/2024
Global fisheries must change to avoid ocean collapse, study says
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Falcón state is not only affected by the oil spills from the Paraguaná Refining Complex (CRP), which is the largest oil processing complex in Venezuela and is made up of the Amuay and Cardón refineries. Oil and gas spills have been recurrent there since November 2019, This have never been accounted for by Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) nor has information been given about an environmental study that began at the end of 2023 as requested by the fishing settlements around the “Golfete de Coro” (Little Gulf of Coro).
 

By Irene Revilla / Correspondent lapatilla.com

The coasts of Falcon have also been damaged by the oil spills from the El Palito refinery, located in Carabobo State to the east of Falcón. The last, but not the first one, registered is polluting the sensitive coasts of Falcon since it borders the Morrocoy National Park, was reported by fishermen and inhabitants of the area during the first half of August and to date there has been no response to the environmental damage, to the fishing families and to the providers of tourist services. PDVSA has not reported whether the oil spill comes from the El Palito refinery or from Planta Centro, a thermoelectric plant that receives oil through an underwater pipeline and that is also in Carabobo.

 
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