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Mexico’s push for US natural gas sparks community opposition and threatens its climate pledges

Oskaloosa Herald · last updated

LOS ARRECIFES, Mexico (AP) — The sun has set and the clouds are washed in purple as Mauricio Contreras and his daughter Eunices head out to fish in the Gulf of Mexico. Eunices casts the heavy net for snapper, pollock or cabrilla while her father pilots their small boat.

Contreras, an anchor dangling from a silver chain against his deeply tanned skin, has been doing this for more than 40 years. But he worries the family’s main source of income is now at risk from an underwater pipeline completed last year to import natural gas from the United States.

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