More than two months after methane gas began erupting into the Porter Ranch environment, Governor Jerry Brown finally declared a state of emergency, after the residents began reporting a variety of symptoms from the fumes and gas.
The Gas Company claims that the symptoms are just from odor added to the methane and it is “just temporary, it’s not a problem, it’s not serious”. Scoffing at such a claim, attorney Rex Paris retorts, “These people aren’t stupid. We have children whose noses are bleeding every day, we have people who suffer from chronic headaches [and] are nauseous every, single day. How does that not become a serious issue?”
The only way to avoid sickness, one doctor told the residents, is to get far away. But obviously the gas is not able to be contained to a zip code and it’s reach easily could be beyong the 30 miles to the city of Los Angeles, where almost 18 million people reside as of 2013, making it “the second most populous city in the United States.”
More of the dangers of methane on the next page.
Leann Atkinson
well said
Mama nature is going to clean house. That’s one$#%&!@*of a methane gas release. Bye bye California. Earthquake vault spilt 10.0
Mike Schrader, not far from your home
Why can’t they just put a huge funnel connected to a large hose and direct the gas into tanks. At least they could recover some of their loses and keep the plume down. Until they can cap it.
Its OK everything is fine
Yaifare!
This is just like Japan Fukushima nuclear power plant dumping tons of radioactive water in the ocean everyday nobody cares this is probably close to be in the same and nobody cares and you don’t see it in the media. But then again that’s the government for you they let us know what they want us to know…
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/5-facts-to-know-about-the-california-methane-leak/
can be accomplished by all a active and non active marines, just ask. Satisfaction not guaranteed.