Mexican leader calls for clean energy use but defends oil exploitation
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Mexico City, Apr 22 (EFE).- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday that his country is seeking to generate “clean and cheap” energy via hydroelectric plants, although he also defended the use of petroleum for the internal market.
“Although we have discovered three big reserves of hydrocarbons, the oil we’re discovering basically will be destined to cover fuel demand in the domestic market and the practice of exporting crude will be ended,” said the president, widely known as AMLO, during the virtual Climate Summit organized by the US White House and in which 40 international leaders are participating.