Posted on 01/08/2016 10:34:21 AM PST by 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.â€
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.â€
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
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I have to wonder it this gas leak isn’t precursor to some large geological event.
Moonbeam Brown’s environmentalist sister is on the board of the CRONY capitalist corporation that owns that gas well.
Imagine this...times 2,250,000,000
The leak is from a manmade underground gas storage reservoir. It’s surplus/unwanted byproduct from energy wells that gets pumped back into the ground.
Paging “The Rock”: Mega-Disaster in SoCal imminent. Methane explosion to level L.A., set off San Andreas Fault.
Underground storage facility
Leak is more centrally located than this article implies
Mentioning the Los Angeles centric population figures is journalistic malpractice
There is a problem. It isn’t minor.
It still isn’t a threat to all of Los Angeles.
Still something has caused it to start leaking. A possible shift/break in the earth is as logical a reason as any other.
They are supposed to burn that stuff off.
Brown and his sister look alike, too.
Quick! Somebody light a match!
That term is essentially a redundancy anymore when applied to 90% of news resources.
It is a leak in a decades old well pipe.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3377659/posts?page=17#17
Is it too diluted to ignite?
Reminds me of the Texas story of an oilman dies and goes to heaven. St Peter greets him and says it is a bit late so we are going to put you up for the night in one of our guest facilities till morning. Next morning comes, St Peter meets the oilman and asks how were the accommodations. Oilman says, nice but you know up in Dallas they have this place called The Mansion and it is a wee bit better. St Peter says, humm, tell you what, we are going to put you up in one of our resorts tonight and tomorrow we talk again. Next morning a beaming St Peter asks how was that? Oilman says well it was nice but you know down in Texas in Austin a resort called Barton Creek has better golf facilities so it is a wee bit better than your resort. St Peter now really exasperated pulls the oilman over by the neck, pushes his head down to peer into the fire and brimstone of hell and says to the oilman you got anything in Texas like that? Oil man says no sir, but we got a couple of ole boys in Houston put that fire out in 30 minutes.
Lemme guesss.....
EnviroWhackos would not let them burn it off at the well site, because that would be creating greenhouse gasses. SO the utility has been pumping it all underground in the hopes that someday it will become someone else’s problem.
No it's a storage facility to ensure supplies for the higher demand colder winter months.
I know LA cold doesn't came close to most of the US, but they think it's cold...:^)
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