Members of a community mapuche They have kept access to the YPF’s Loma La Lata oil field and prevented the entry and exit of workers and contractors, some of whom still remain inside. Industry sources indicated that more than 300 employees of the site and contracting companies were illegally detained due to this situation, although as the hours passed, several of them were released and were able to return to their homes.
The measure is carried out by the Painemil community, which decided from this Tuesday at 10 restrict the mobility of vehicles when accessing the site oil to claim for a problem that affects a home in which members of that group reside that lacks a supply of bottled gas. The sources indicated that since Tuesday the truck to refill the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) It is located in the place without the possibility of access. This situation, they added, It affects the production of the main operators in the sector.
The Police confirmed that there are still employees detained because the leaders of the Mapuche community “want to negotiate a solution to their proposal.”
They specified that there are more than 3 million cubic meters of gas that, if the situation continues, will affect the supply in Buenos Aires and other points of the gas consumption network at times of high demand and climate crisis.
The companies affected by this claim have already informed both the provincial and national authorities of the situation.
