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Reuters - Thieves tapping into a Mexican fuel pipeline triggered a large diesel fuel spill south of the border city of Tijuana in Baja California state on Wednesday, authorities said.

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"...A senior source at the state emergencies agency, which has dealt with a number of fuel spills in recent years due to criminal activity, described the incident as serious.

"There cannot be less than 50,000 liters (13,000 gallons) spilled," the official said, declining to be named since he was not authorized to comment on the size of the spill.

"We've never seen anything like this."

A Reuters witness saw a three-foot (1 meter) stream of fuel flowing on hilly ranch land a few miles (kilometers) from Rosarito.

Police prevented people from approaching the pipeline but bulldozers could be seen working furiously to build huge piles of earth to contain and absorb the flow of fuel. The odor of petroleum was extremely intense..."


Are. You. SHITTING ME?!?

That BETTER NOT be in front of the power plant.

Contaminado el ambiente por derrame | AFN Tijuana

"...diesel y gasolina los derramados sobre más de tres kilómetros lineales sobre el arroyo Huahuatay..."

This is an ongoing problem in Mexico and Pemex probably needs to push to make the consequences a lot more severe when the thieves are caught...

I was able to find and map that Arroyo Huahuatay. It has two major branches a mile or two east of the toll road, and the north one goes right up to the power transmission lines from the power plant heading to the new housing tracts and Tijuana.

I've often noticed buried pipeline placards near those powerline roads. I bet that's where it happened.