Cómo cubrir el fracking en América Latina

The document outlines the environmental and social risks of fracking, highlighting its high water consumption and methane emissions. It specifically discusses Mexico's shift toward exploiting unconventional gas reserves under President Claudia Sheinbaum to reduce dependence on US gas, while noting the technique's controversy in Argentina and other Latin American nations.

• Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is a controversial extraction method for oil and fossil gas that involves injecting pressurized fluids to fragment rock, causing significant climate, environmental, and human impacts.
• In Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum has proposed a plan to exploit unconventional gas reserves using fracking to decrease the country's reliance on gas imported from the United States, marking a departure from the previous administration's push for a constitutional ban.
• The climate benefits of natural gas over coal are often negated by methane leaks during extraction and transport, as well as flaring; methane is 80 to 86 times more potent than CO2 over a 20-year period.
• Fracking poses severe local risks, including the consumption of 10 to 20 million liters of water per well—creating competition for resources in water-scarce areas like northern Mexico—as well as air and water pollution, induced seismic activity, and biodiversity loss.

APA

CCNow (2026). Cómo cubrir el fracking en América Latina. Covering Climate Now. https://coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-story/como-cubrir-el-fracking-en-america-latina/

Chicago

CCNow. Cómo cubrir el fracking en América Latina. Covering Climate Now, 2026. https://coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-story/como-cubrir-el-fracking-en-america-latina/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{ccnow2026cmo, author = {CCNow}, title = {{Cómo cubrir el fracking en América Latina}}, institution = {Covering Climate Now}, year = {2026}, month = apr, url = {https://coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-story/como-cubrir-el-fracking-en-america-latina/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }