The Regional Implications of the Constitutional Reform of Hydrocarbons in the Enjoyment and Exercise of the Fundamental Right to a Healthy Environment
On December 20, 2013, the Mexican government enacted a constitutional reform aimed at increasing the exploitation of national hydrocarbons in order to guarantee, inter alia, the country’s energy supply for the coming decades. This reform has not only entailed the possibility of obtaining a greater hydrocarbon resource through the new legal form of exploitation, but also a greater probability of generating a negative impact on legal rights than the human right to a healthy environment. For the above, this academic paper aims to expose the possible impacts that the constitutional change would provoke on the legal sphere of the communities located in hydrocarbon profile regions, as well as possible legal measures that could be established based on the legal parameters that this fundamental right establishes to contain this impact.
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