by Agencies , (Last Updated about 1 hour ago)CARACAS: Smelling like an oil refinery, the vast expanse of Lake Maracaibo has become polluted by its own reserves of crude as Venezuela’s economic collapse has left wells and pipelines in ruin. “They’ve been extracting oil from beneath this lake for 100 years,” said economist Orlando Ochoa, a specialist in the oil sector. NO ONE LISTENS TO USVenezuela’s oil production stood at 3.2 million barrels a day 10 years ago, it’s now down to less than one million. Lake Maracaibo has been badly affected. Yurasi Briceno, a biologist at Venezuela’s scientific research institute, is studying fauna in the northern part of the lake.

Source: Pakistan Today October 03, 2019 02:15 UTC