“Unstoppable” SFV California Gas Leak Now Being Called Worst Catastrophe Since BP Spill

Added by Citizen Reporter on December 24, 2015.
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Tags: Aliso Canyon gas leak, Los Angeles, Porter Ranch, San Fernando Vallley

You haven’t heard that much about it, until recently, have you? There is a major hazardous gas leak in the largest urban area in the United States, not all that far from where most of our readers live (leak is in Porter Ranch). The potential for a disastrous explosion is high and action on it has been too slow.

Since initially reporting on California’s Alison Canyon gas leak, more details have emerged on the scale (and potential for no solution) of the problem as the infamous Erin Brockovich writes, “the enormity of the Aliso Canyon gas leak cannot be overstated. Gas is escaping through a ruptured pipe more than 8,000 feet underground, and it shows no signs of stopping,” as according to the California Air Resources Board, methane – a greenhouse gas 72 times more impactful in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide – has been escaping from the Aliso Canyon site with force equivalent “to a volcanic eruption” for about two months now…..

As TheAntiMedia.org’s Claire Bernish details, methane gas continues spewing, unchecked, into the air over southern California from a fractured well to an underground storage site — at such an alarming rate that low-flying planes have necessarily been diverted by the FAA, lest internal combustion engines meet highly volatile gas and, well, blow the entire area to hell.

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