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Gas Company Understated Benzene Exposure From California Leak
2016-01-15 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The company that owns the leaking natural gas well in Los Angeles understated the number of air samples showing higher-than-usual levels of benzene, The Associated Press reports. Adding to concerns over the disaster, efforts to stop the leak appear to have destabilized the well, the Los Angeles Times reports, raising the risk of a blowout. The leak at Porter Ranch, which recently prompted California to declare a state of emergency, has been spewing enormous quantities of the greenhouse gas...
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Efforts to plug Porter Ranch-area gas leak worsened blowout risk, regulators say
2016-01-15 15:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Southern California Gas Co.'s effort to plug its leaking natural gas well involves higher stakes than simply stopping the fumes that have sickened many residents of Porter Ranch. The company also is trying to avoid a blowout, which state regulators said is now a significant concern after a seventh attempt to plug the well created more precarious conditions at the site. If a blowout occurs, highly flammable gas would vent directly up through the well, known as SS25, rather than dissipating as...
Alberta Energy Regulator fines Calgary company for 48-day oil pipeline leak
2016-01-15 06:14:01| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A Calgary-based company has been fined over a pipeline breach that spilled 537,000 litres of oil emulsion in northern Alberta over 48 days. The Alberta Energy Regulator says Pengrowth Energy Corporation failed to properly detect, report and deal with the spill near Red Earth Creek.
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Utility may have understated health threat from gas leak
2016-01-14 22:27:17| Energy - Topix.net
The utility whose leaking natural gas well has driven thousands of Los Angeles residents from their homes has publicly understated the number of times airborne levels of the cancer-causing chemical benzene have spiked over the past three months, the company's own data suggests. In trying to reassure the public there's no long-term health risk from the leak, Southern California Gas Co.
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California Air Resources Board Latest Leak Estimates Indicate 60-Percent Reduction Of Porter Ranch Methane Leak
2016-01-13 06:53:07| pollutiononline News Articles
The most recent Aliso Canyon preliminary methane emissions estimates by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) were posted yesterday, showing updated rough estimates of the volume of gas leaking from the well that indicate emissions have decreased from CARB's initial preliminary estimates,SoCalGasannounced today
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