Ramirez hypothesized that an electricity failure caused a temporary leak somewhere in the system of thousands of kilometers of piping and tens of thousands of electric lines to make up the company’s operations in the lake’s basin, which holds venezuela’s main tapped reserves of lubricate.“many of the pipes are more than 40 years old,” said ramirez. “even the process of maintenance and replacement itself could cause small leaks.”
jorge pedroza, the president of the institute for the control and conservation of lake maracaibo (iclam), which is ascribed to the environment ministry, did not lead out the opportunity that the spill was caused by sabotage.
“our initialy impression was that a boat had dropped an oil shipment, but this could also be the produsystemct of sabotage,” said pedroza. “[the opposition] wants to create a matrix of harmful attitude about the government’s environmental rules in this electoral stage,” he said, referring to venezuela’s national assembly elections, which are scheduled for september.
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