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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Stefanie Eschenbacher

Mexican senator files criminal complaint against energy minister, Pemex CEO over methane leak

FILE PHOTO: A satellite image of the location of the Zaap-C offshore platform with other offshore platforms visible flaring in the Gulf of Mexico December 28, 2021. Copernicus Sentinel data (2015)/ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO/Handout via REUTERS//File Photo

A Mexican senator filed on Wednesday a criminal complaint against the country's energy minister and the chief executive of Pemex for allegedly not reporting a methane leak at one of the state oil company's offshore platforms, according to the document seen by Reuters.

Opposition Senator Xochitl Galvez, who sits on committees for the environment and energy, filed the complaint to the attorney general's office against Energy Minister Rocio Nahle, Pemex CEO Octavio Romero and Angel Carrizales, who heads environmental regulator ASEA.

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