FILE – On this Dec.18, 2020 file photograph, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador offers his every day morning press convention on the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico Metropolis. The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, says he examined constructive for COVID-19 and is beneath medical remedy, on Sunday, January 24, 2021.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican enterprise teams stated Tuesday that a proposed new energy provide legislation would harm traders and power Mexicans to purchase costlier energy from older, dirtier authorities crops.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has proposed undoing a lot of the work of the previous seven years to ascertain cheaper, renewable vitality, largely by opening non-public producing crops, wind farms and photo voltaic.
The invoice would require that the primary vitality used ought to be from authorities crops, a lot of which burn coal or gas oil. Privately run pure gasoline and renewable vitality could be final in line.
López Obrador is attempting to hurry up the invoice in Congress by 30 days. His Morena get together stated it’s crucial to guard the state energy firm, which is painted at a drawback in comparison with non-public corporations.
The enterprise teams argue that the legislation would jeopardize Mexico’s worldwide commitments to scale back emissions and harm traders who, beneath present guidelines, invested closely in Mexican crops.
“This opens the best way to the oblique expropriation of personal crops, by altering the essential guidelines to create a monopoly” for the state Federal Electrical energy Fee, stated the Enterprise Coordinating Council in a press release.
