‘Lethal levels’: Radioactive fears at L.A. gas leak
Disaster shaping up as largest methane release in U.S. history
WND.com
Feb. 6, 2016
A natural disaster of unprecedented proportion is unfolding in California but has received little national attention.
Near Los Angeles, a leaking natural gas well – which has been spewing noxious fumes for months – is now, according to some, emitting “lethal levels” of radioactive material.
Alternately called the Aliso Canyon gas leak or the Porter Ranch gas leak, it is an enormous and uncontrolled natural gas well leak connected to the Aliso Canyon underground storage facility owned by Southern California Gas Company.
The methane is spewing from one of 115 wells at the company’s facility in the Santa Susana Mountains, which is used to store gas for distribution to nearly 22 million customers in the L.A. Basin. It has a capacity of 86 billion cubic feet and is one of the largest of more than 400 natural gas storage fields around the country.
The leak was discovered on Oct. 23, 2015, during a routine twice-a-day observation. The source of the leak is a breached seven-inch metal pipe casing in an injection well that lies 8,750 feet underground. There are concerns the aging underground infrastructure is “junk.”
The extent of the invisible plume was not appreciated until a Dec. 7, 2015, video emerged depicting a cloud of methane gas hovering over the nearby upscale community of Porter Ranch. Shot with an infrared camera, it captured the leak in a way not possible using visible light.
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