MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that he will ask for a natural gas pipeline being developed by Canada’s TC Energy Corp. to be rerouted so it does not cut across lands considered sacred by communities in Puebla state.
“Even if we have to pay, the gas pipeline will not go through the sacred hills,” Lopez Obrador said on Jan. 4 while visiting the town of Pahuatlan in Puebla.
The so-called Tuxpan-Tula pipeline is set to stretch 178 miles, delivering fuel from Tuxpan in Veracruz state to the states of Puebla and Hidalgo.
Lopez Obrador’s government last year persuaded companies to waive significant profits from natural gas pipeline deals signed under the previous administration after renegotiating the contracts to save taxpayers $4.5 billion.
That months-long dispute caused diplomatic frictions with Canada in particular, aggravating concerns that Lopez Obrador, a veteran leftist who took office in December 2018, could call into question contracts signed before he assumed the presidency.
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