An oil sample is taken from Montecristi
Diario Libre
SANTIAGO. The Ministry of the Environment took several samples of the black liquid that oozed up in a hole dug in the backyard of a house located in front of the locale of the Municipal District of Villa Elisa, Montecristi.
The provincial director of the Environment in the province of Montecristi, Olga Loberty Gomez, reported that the samples were sent to the headquarters of the ministry in Santo Domingo for study. "We ordered the temporary closure of the excavation, because the liquid that is coming out represents a fire hazard," she said.
The owner of the backyard of the house where the hole was dug, Ms. Carmen Santana, who has given away more than 300 gallons of the liquid to motorcycles owners, received the visit yesterday of dozens of moto-taxis, government officials, military, and reporters interested in the issue.
In the meantime, the reporter William Estevez reported to Diario Libre that several motorcycles in which the liquid was used continue to function well, although with a greater amount of smoke.
For his part, the director of the Municipal District of Villa Elisa, Guillermo Grullon, recalled that at the beginning of the start of the government headed by Juan Bosch (1963), in front of the local municipal building, they installed a storage area for fuel and road repair equipment in order to begin a program of road repairs on the highways in the area. "Perhaps the black liquid that is coming out of the patio of the house is the result of some fuel that had been stored there and filtered down through the soil, and is now in the subsoil," he said.
In 1955 a company from the United States began digging and drilling in Villa Vasquez, some 15 kilometers from Villa Elisa, in search of oil, which it found, but not of good quality or in quantities sufficient for exploitation, according to persons from that time.
The provincial director of the Environment in the province of Montecristi, Olga Loberty Gomez, reported that the samples were sent to the headquarters of the ministry in Santo Domingo for study. "We ordered the temporary closure of the excavation, because the liquid that is coming out represents a fire hazard," she said.
The owner of the backyard of the house where the hole was dug, Ms. Carmen Santana, who has given away more than 300 gallons of the liquid to motorcycles owners, received the visit yesterday of dozens of moto-taxis, government officials, military, and reporters interested in the issue.
In the meantime, the reporter William Estevez reported to Diario Libre that several motorcycles in which the liquid was used continue to function well, although with a greater amount of smoke.
For his part, the director of the Municipal District of Villa Elisa, Guillermo Grullon, recalled that at the beginning of the start of the government headed by Juan Bosch (1963), in front of the local municipal building, they installed a storage area for fuel and road repair equipment in order to begin a program of road repairs on the highways in the area. "Perhaps the black liquid that is coming out of the patio of the house is the result of some fuel that had been stored there and filtered down through the soil, and is now in the subsoil," he said.
In 1955 a company from the United States began digging and drilling in Villa Vasquez, some 15 kilometers from Villa Elisa, in search of oil, which it found, but not of good quality or in quantities sufficient for exploitation, according to persons from that time.
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