Back in October, residents around the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility began complaining of feeling sick and smelling rotten eggs. Turns out the underground containment unit had suffered a massive rupture.
Estimates are that the disaster is spewing 110,000 pounds per hour of natural gases in a giant invisible geyser. They figure about 150 million pounds of earth-killing greenhouse Methane has been released. Experts don’t think they’ll get it under control for another three months.
So?
It’s all natural.
The rupture accounts for about 25% of Cal’s annual green house gas emissions on its own.
They’re destroying the world, but nobody outside of the affected area knows about it.
I’m surprised the whole thing has gone up in one big explosion.
Methane, like oil, is an important part of the food chain.
Consider a release like this to be akin to adding fertilizer to crops.
“Earth killing methane?”
Exaggerate much?
Methane is the stuff of termite and cow farts.
It’s a naturally occurring compound, so what’s the fuss?
Under Obama’s watch, the facts about everything change, just as they have about this “natural disaster”. Parsing it out and controlling the conversation is just what they do. If CA had an asshole, this must be it.
Jerry Brown is CAs’ asshole.
Poor Mexifornia, on top of all the multitude of visible disasters now they have an invisible one too! Jerry Moonbeam Brown is a bad luck charm!
Sounds like a ready made criminal and/or civil lawsuit just waiting.
Pain and suffering, medical, future cancer, whatever.
Yes, of course I exaggerated, to make a point that CA is the Left coast, this release has been going on for 3 months with probably 3 more months to go.
Yet where is the media crying hysterically for the polar bears who are going to drown and the cities that are going to wash away?
Where’s Obama, in his Mom jeans showing up at the scene to express his concern and a renewed commitment to bring the guilty parties to justice?
zilch, nana, zip, nothing.
it’s supposed to be a bigger catastrophe than the BP oil spill
and nary a peep out of preezy oblowharddownlow and his epa henchmen
nothing to see here folks, move along
Weird, this is nowhere near Los Angeles. Aliso Viejo is south Orange County – about 50+ miles from LA. I worked in that area during the 1980s construction boom.
Strike match and watch a cool blue flame – no more problem.
OMG! Are we all gonna die AGAIN?
Maybe the EPA will send in a cleanup crew, like they did for that abandoned mine in CO.
Thank God and the people that followed him. Red Adair.
One reason nobody has heard about this is that the Gov.’s sister is on the board of Sempra Energy who owns So Cal Gas. The same gov. who wanted to reduce gasoline consumption in Ca. by 50% but would not tell any body how he was going to do it, and then had a hissy fit when he couldn’t get enough votes for it to pass.
Moosehell will still claim the spewing record from her side of the dining room table.
This comes on the heels of the reported methane releases off coasts of WA and OR. They claim people were killed by it in Ocean Shores, WA.
And people have their panties in an enormous wad about spent fuel rods and pellets in impenetrable steel casks being stored at Yucca Mountain? Give me a freaking break.
“plugging the leak, which sprang in mid-October, would take at least three more months. Right now, the single leak accounts for a quarter of the state’s entire methane emissions, and the leak has been called the worst environmental disaster since the BP oil spill in 2010.”
they force us to sacrifice and reduce this crap 1%, and then in one accident…POOF…years of sacrifice up in smoke…