Promoting coal is part of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s effort to shore up the state-owned power utility, the Federal Electricity Commission. Not only was the policy questioned by environmentalists; many also said it endangered miners.
As hopes faded of rescuing 10 men trapped in a flooded Mexican coal mine, evidence mounted that the current administration’s populist policies have driven the revival of dangerous, primitive mines that continue claiming lives.
Fifteen men were working inside the Pinabete mine in Sabinas, Coahuila, about 70 miles southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas, on Aug. 3. A wall of water from an abandoned mine next door — and possibly wastewater pumped in from a nearby town — filled the single shaft about 44 yards deep. It blew out so many wooden supports that they have formed floating barriers to rescue crews.Advertisement
“We had to have the mind-set of favoring the smallest [producers] because we had to make their economic conditions more equal,” Miguel Alejandro López, the subdirector of purchasing for the company, said in July, describing the orders he got under López Obrador. “Because as he [the president] has said, one of this country’s main failings is inequality.”
At some mines, the pit-head winches used to extract miners and coal are run off old car engines placed on blocks. In 2013, a bill in the lower house stated, “Coal mining activities have generalized risks, because their techniques are artisanal and rudimentary. … Risky mining practices must be minimized or eliminated.”Mine safety activist Cristina Auerbach noted that coal is politically sensitive in Coahuila, especially among the impoverished communities that once made a living from it.She said that from 2006 through last year at least 80 miners had died in accidents in Coahuila.
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