Doctors Urge California Residents "Leave Now...While You Can" As Gas Leak Fears Grow

Zero Hedge ^ | January 8, 2016 | Tyler Durden

[Perseverando]

California Governor Jerry Brown finally declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, concerning the ongoing, currently unstoppable methane gas leak spewing from Aliso Canyon that has created a nightmare for residents of Porter Ranch.

“I will tell you, this goes well beyond Porter Ranch. We’ve had complaints from as far as Chatsworth, Northridge, and Granada Hills,” emphasized Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander during a Porter Ranch town hall meeting on December 28. “Apparently this plume of toxic chemicals and whatever it might be, doesn’t know zip codes […] This is the equivalent of the BP oil spill on land, in a populated community.”

Aliso Canyon sits less than two and a half miles from Porter Ranch and less than 30 miles from the city of Los Angeles — the second most populous city in the United States — whose outlying total statistical area includes nearly 18 million residents, as of 2013.

Brown has been widely criticized for lack of decisive action on the leak, which is erupting from its underground storage area with all the force “of a volcano.” Under Wednesday’s declaration, “all state agencies will utilize state personnel, equipment, and facilities to ensure a continuous and thorough state response to this incident.”

Porter Ranch residents have been evacuating the area for some time, though SoCalGas’ rather maladroit handling of the relocation procedure has been a nightmare — and the cause for a mounting number of lawsuits, including one from the L.A. city attorney’s office.

Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer filed a civil lawsuit last month concerning the massive methane leak’s impact on area residents’ health and damage to the environment — which alleged failure by SoCalGas to prevent the leak and further exacerbation of “the effects of that failure by allowing acute odor and

[Carry_Okie]

Brown has been widely criticized for lack of decisive action on the leak, which is erupting from its underground storage area with all the force of a volcano.

Oh please.

[rhoda_penmark]

methane <> methadrine

[sasportas]

So where are all the Kalifornians supposed to flee to? Conservative states? States like Montana have already got their limit of Kalifornians.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I see those lyrics as actually creepier.

At the start of the WoT, an unnamed CIA agent remarked that there was a terrorist internment camp in another nation nicknamed “The Hotel California”. He noted that there were “many” parallels between the song and what took place there.

Definitely creepy, and changes the character of the song.

This being said, The Eagles really outdid themselves with the extended version on their Hell Freezes Over album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76J4TGcQ92M

[Gator113]

Put democrats in power and you will smell like crap and live in a sewer.

LET ‘ER BLOW!!!!

[Let's Roll]

Given the location, circumstances, those involved - your “guesss” sounds quite accurate.

LOL!

[Kenton]

We need to provide the refugees with a list of “Red States” where they may possibly be welcomed.

[huldah1776]

I know they are two different things. :)

[Little Pig]

Yes, a faulty section of a borehole casing failed, deeply enough that it can’t easily be patched. They’re trying to drive a new borehole that will intersect the failed one below the break, so they can cut off the failed section, and then can properly cap the new bore.

[ExCTCitizen]

Oh, the thought that the Doctors was telling all CONSERVATIVE CALIFORNIANS to move out of the state. /s

[ExCTCitizen]

Can Montana build a wall to keep out ILLEGAL CALIFORNIANS?