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Oct 1, 2021 · The future site of a Porter Ranch park near Mason Ave. on Monday, May 10, 2021. ... “The devastating gas blowout will not be behind us until this facility is completely shut down and the danger ...
- Porter Ranch residents and activists rally to shut down Aliso ...
Porter Ranch resident Sam Dominick at the intersection of...
- Porter Ranch residents and activists rally to shut down Aliso ...
Aug 22, 2023 · Porter Ranch resident Sam Dominick at the intersection of Tampa Ave and Rinaldi St Tuesday, Aug 22, during a rally to urge California Governor Newsom to shut down the Aliso Canyon natural gas ...
Sep 27, 2021 · Nearly six years after the worst methane gas leak in U.S. history forced more than 8,000 families in Porter Ranch to flee their homes, Southern California Gas Co. has agreed to pay a settlement of ...
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Porter Ranch started appearing with some frequency in the headlines just as world leaders convened in Paris for a landmark climate change conference in late November. Eric Garcetti, the mayor of Los Angeles, visited Porter Ranch on his way to Paris. He toured a school and pronounced the methane leak a “natural disaster,” though the cause was almost...
Despite its artful hyperbole and stylized violence, the Paul Thomas Anderson film There Will Be Blood got one thing right: Los Angeles is an oil town built by oil men. Today’s oil men don’t look like Daniel Day-Lewis’s rough-hewn Daniel Plainview, but there are still some 3,000 active oil wells in Los Angeles County, none more famous than the one c...
Although SS-25 ruptured in October, it was not really until the last days of 2015 that the rest of the world started paying attention. Methane is invisible, which robs the disaster of the kind of doomsday imagery that photo editors and TV news producers crave. And though it adds significantly to the greenhouse gasestrapped in Earth’s atmosphere, th...
One night, I went to a meeting of the Porter Ranch Advisory Committee at one of the two schools that had recently been closed. It was unsettling to drive on such empty streets in what was still, by map and law, the city of Los Angeles. Never have I yearned so much for just a little traffic, the slightest sign of life. But the streets were empty, ha...
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Sep 1, 2023 · FILE - Crews from SoCalGas and outside experts work on a relief well to be connected to a leaking well at the Aliso Canyon facility above the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles, on Dec. 9. 2015. California officials are expected to vote Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023, on a proposal to increase storage capacity at the site of the nation’s largest-known methane leak.
Aug 31, 2023 · State Sen. Henry Stern, a Democrat whose district includes Porter Ranch, said he understands why Newsom and his appointees have thus far declined to shut Aliso Canyon — and why they’ve ...
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Aug 16, 2023 · Pakucko said that he and other Porter Ranch residents have noticed that, over the past few weeks and months, people have reported symptoms and illnesses similar to when the gas leak first occurred. They later found out, through notices sent by AQMD, that SoCalGas was going maintenance on their wells, and one of the chemicals they used as part of the maintenance was hydrofluoric acid — which ...
