{"id":15641,"date":"2015-12-24T09:20:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15641"},"modified":"2015-12-24T09:20:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:20:46","slug":"unstoppable-california-gas-leak-now-being-called-worst-catastrophe-since-bp-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15641","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Unstoppable&#8221; California Gas Leak Now Being Called Worst Catastrophe Since BP Spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-12-24\/unstoppable-california-gas-leak-now-being-called-worst-catastrophe-bp-spill\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Unstoppable&#8221; California Gas Leak Now Being Called Worst Catastrophe Since BP Spill<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"tabs\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"node sticky\">\n<div class=\"js-links\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear-block clear\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-12-20\/californias-worst-gas-leak-40-years-and-crews-cant-stop-it\">Since initially reporting on California&#8217;s Alison Canyon gas leak<\/a>, more details have emerged on the scale (and potential for no solution) of the problem as the infamous Erin Brockovich writes,\u00a0<em>&#8220;<strong>the enormity of the Aliso Canyon gas leak cannot be overstated.<\/strong>\u00a0Gas is escaping through a ruptured pipe more than 8,000 feet underground, and it shows no signs of stopping,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0as according to the California Air Resources Board, methane &#8211; a greenhouse gas 72 times more impactful in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide &#8211; has been\u00a0<strong>escaping from the Aliso Canyon site with force equivalent \u201cto a volcanic eruption\u201d for about two months now<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>New infrared footage exposes the massive leak..<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/d00da2bc-a8fb-11e5-b596-113f59ee069a\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Infographic of leak (and potential solution)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2015\/12\/20151220_gas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2015\/12\/20151220_gas.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/unstoppable-california-gas-leak-being-called-worst-catastrophe-since-bp-spill\/\">As TheAntiMedia.org&#8217;s Claire Bernish details<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/u>methane gas continues spewing, unchecked, into the air over southern California from a fractured well to an underground storage site \u2014 at such an alarming rate that low-flying planes have necessarily been diverted by the FAA, lest internal combustion engines meet highly volatile gas and, well,\u00a0<em>blow the entire area to hell. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is, indeed, the biggest environmental catastrophe since the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010; and for now, there is no way to stop it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This methane disaster is worse than can be sufficiently described in words, because while it\u2019s estimated well over 100,000 pounds of methane spew into the atmosphere every hour,\u00a0<em>the leak can\u2019t be halted<\/em>, at least until spring. Even then, that stoppage depends entirely on the efficacy of a proposed fix \u2014 which remains a dubiously open question.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/documents.latimes.com\/report-greenhouse-gas-emissions-aliso-canyon-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\">According to<\/a>\u00a0the California Air Resources Board, methane \u2014 a greenhouse gas 72 times more impactful in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide \u2014 has been escaping from the Aliso Canyon site with\u00a0<strong>force\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2015\/12\/21\/porter-ranch-gas-leak-catastrophe-not-seen-bp-oil-spill\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>equivalent<\/strong><\/a><strong><em>\u00a0\u201cto a volcanic eruption\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0for about two months now. So far, the total leaked gas measures somewhere around 100,000 tons \u2014 adding\u00a0<em>\u201capproximately one-quarter to the regular statewide methane emissions\u201d<\/em>\u00a0during that same time frame.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Unstoppable&#8221; California Gas Leak Now Being Called Worst Catastrophe Since BP Spill Since initially reporting on California&#8217;s Alison Canyon gas leak, more details have emerged on the scale (and potential for no solution) of the problem as the infamous Erin Brockovich writes,\u00a0&#8220;the enormity of the Aliso Canyon gas leak cannot be overstated.\u00a0Gas is escaping through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1158,101,2484,2343,517,554,4318],"class_list":["post-15641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bp-oil-spill","tag-california","tag-catastrophe","tag-gas-leak","tag-mexico","tag-natural-gas","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15642,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641\/revisions\/15642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}