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The Southern California Gas Co. settled a lawsuit this week filed by the Center for Environmental Health stemming from the 2015 Aliso Canyon facility gas leak, the largest natural gas leak in U.S ...
Aliso Canyon SS 25 wellhead, December 17, 2015. Note subsidence craters at center, apparently from the attempts to plug the leaking well. The Aliso Canyon gas leak (also called Porter Ranch gas leak [1] and Porter Ranch gas blowout [2]) was a massive methane leak in the Santa Susana Mountains near the neighborhood of Porter Ranch in the city of Los Angeles, California.
State lawmakers implored community members to hasten Aliso Canyon's closure by consuming less gas and turning to electric appliances.
California's Public Utilities Commission voted for a plan that could eventually shutter the Aliso Canyon gas storage site but some residents want swifter action.
In December 2015, Gatto was named Chairman of the Utilities and Commerce Committee, and immediately announced an investigation into the Aliso Canyon gas leak. [41] After a number of scandals rocked the California Public Utilities Commission, Gatto introduced a constitutional amendment to break up the agency. [42]
The Aliso Canyon Oil Field (also Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Field, Aliso Canyon Underground Storage Facility) is an oil field and natural gas storage facility in the Santa Susana Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, north of the Porter Ranch neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles. Discovered in 1938 and quickly developed ...
The oil giant was hired by Southern California Gas Co. to end the blowout. It couldn't get the job done.
It is perhaps the largest source of methane release in the United States and accounts for about a tenth of the annual gas industry amount. [1] [2] The area has upwards of 40,000 oil and gas wells. [3] The exact cause of the methane leak remained unidentified as of 2015, [4] but appeared to be related to coalbed methane extraction. [1] [2] [5]