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.”
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Can’t they flare off this methane? If so, I’d rather have a flare burning than to have raw methane being pumped into my area.
I’ve been telling people to leave California for years… It’s about time “doctors” tell people they need to leave that miserable, pathetic state full of self-entitled humans. Ya know what, wait a minute. Stay there, the rest of the world doesn’t want you.
why doessnt the gas co. burn it as wasted emissions?…..afraid of polution?
someone please strike a match…
if this was happening in a Republican run state it would be all over the news.
I think they finally got that leak capped.
Just detonate explosives along the fault lines and drop the whole damn state in the ocean (after I get my mom out).
Not all of us that live in Cali are liberal idiots. And not all of us agreed to the Carbon tax bill. Some of us want out of Cali but can’t leave just yet.
funny
Big Oil and Gas pay for silence.