US Edition10 Years Since Aliso Canyon: Disaster Was Wake-up Call for US on Dangers of Underground Gas
Debate continues over Aliso Canyon's future as regulators balance safety concerns with its role in supplying 40% of California's electricity, with capacity set to be reduced by 10 billion cubic feet.
- On October 23, 2015, Well SS-25 at the Aliso Canyon underground gas storage facility began a nearly four-month leak that released 109,000 metric tons of methane and relocated 8,000 families.
- Well SS-25 at Aliso Canyon, drilled in 1953 and repurposed for storage, failed due to external corrosion likely caused by groundwater contact, state regulators determined.
- Researchers are conducting a $21 million UCLA-led Aliso Canyon Disaster Health Research Study, with early findings linking low birthweight to 666 exposed cases from over 1 million records.
- CPUC staff recommended lowering the facility's maximum storage to 58.6 Bcf, but last December the CPUC board voted to keep Aliso Canyon operating for energy reliability and consumer price control.
- The Porter Ranch Community Air Monitoring Project provides real-time methane data and sent an Oct. 3 alert later retracted; SoCalGas said it added safety measures, while nearly 36,000 plaintiffs sued.
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Hastings Tribune
10 years since Aliso Canyon: Disaster was wake-up call for US on dangers of underground gas
LOS ANGELES — On an evening 10 years ago, Porter Ranch resident Matt Pakucko stepped out of his music studio and was walloped by the smell of gas — like sticking your head in an oven, he recalled.
Ten Years Later, Survivors, Advocates Call for Aliso Canyon to be Shut Down
Los Angeles – Today, on the ten year anniversary since the Aliso Canyon gas storage facility became the site of the largest methane blowout in US history, survivors and advocates continue to demand that Governor Newsom shuts down this dangerous facility that still poses a massive risk to the community. Patty Glueck, a community member, said, “It’s shocking that this facility is still in existence, given the health, seismic, and fire risks it pr…
LA Daily News
Will Aliso Canyon gas storage facility ever close? If so, when?
For the greater part of a decade, residents near the Aliso Canyon underground gas storage facility – the site of the largest natural gas leak in U.S. history – have demanded its closure. Those who lived near the Southern California Gas Co. facility during or since the catastrophic blowout, which took place between October 2015 and February 2016, have reported a host of health problems, from nosebleeds and rashes to dizziness and respiratory issu…
Gas blowout survivors, advocates call for shut down of Aliso Canyon on disaster's tenth anniversary
Los Angeles – While the national mainstream and “alternative” media often portrays California as the nation’s “green” and “progressive” leader, the victims of the largest methane blowout in U.S. history have a much different perspective. On the...
East Bay Times
siliconvalley.comThe largest natural gas leak in U.S. history was in California 10 years ago
Ten years ago this week, (Oct. 23, 2015) the largest U.S. methane leak was discovered at Aliso Canyon in northwestern Los Angeles County. It focused attention on the state’s aging gas wells. The well that leaked was one of 115 connected to a subsurface storage reservoir in the Aliso Canyon gas field. The field has been used for natural gas storage since 1973 and is the second-largest facility of its kind in the U.S., capable of holding up to 86 …
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