Porter ranch methane leak 8

[moon161]

The Aliso Canyon gas leak:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliso_Canyon_gas_leak

is a leak in a gas well connected to the sort of underground natural gas storage facility, which now is supposed to represent 1/4 of california's global warming footprint, and is sickening thousands in the nearby neighborhoods, not to mention the freaky infrared pictures of the methane plume

Apparently the self-regulated utility removed a shutoff valve decades ago

http://www.laweekly.com/news/what-went-wrong-at-porter-ranch-6405804

I think environmentally, this will make the VW scam look like peanuts.

 

[Compositepro]

Meanwhile, "Relocated residents who have been given just a week to return to their homes are skeptical about the safety of the facility hesitant to return until it is permanently closed,” Alexandra Nagy, the Southern California Organizer at the Los Angeles branch of Food & Water Watch, said in a statement. “Residents are fed up with SoCalGas. Residents know that as long as this aging facility remains open, their communities are not safe.”

 

[cranky108]

I wonder if they would feel safe with a new facility?

The problem is not the facts, or lack of facts provided. It's that some people live on feelings and don't care about facts.

Sort of like NIMBY, and bury all the power lines. Facts don't matter.

For a parallel look at the fires a number of years ago, in Hutchinson Kansas.

 

[JohnRBaker]

While this is not the same incident, but it was mentioned in passing at least once in this thread, and since I can't find a thread for this topic, I thought I would post the below item here since it would seem to be of interest to the people who have been following the Porter Ranch gas leak:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pge-fine-gas-explosion_us_57a1265fe4b0e2e15eb7ceab

Anyway, it looks like PG&E dodged a big bullet...

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[berkshire]

John R Baker ,
There is a closed thread on this topic in thread378-281116
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[JohnRBaker]

I searched using the string "San Bruno" and got nothing, but that search was limited to only the 'engineering disasters' forum.

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without