Farmers Stung Twice by Grupo Mexico Spill Fouling Waters
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Marco Antonio Corrales has given up on the peanut and alfalfa crops he was growing this season along the banks of the Sonora River in northern Mexico.
That’s because the waterway, polluted by a copper sulfate solution that spilled from Grupo Mexico SAB’s Buenavista del Cobre mine last month, then overflowed after Hurricane Odile soaked the region, flooding Corrales’s fields.