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LA-area residents implore officials approve plan to mitigate gas leak
2016-01-10 04:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Residents of a southern California community on Saturday implored air quality officials to force a gas company to take steps to mitigate a natural gas leak that has reportedly caused health issues and damaged property since it began three months ago. The five-member hearing board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District fielded comments from residents of the Los Angeles' Porter Ranch neighborhood, home to about 30,000 people, near a Southern California Gas Co natural gas storage well...
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Sickening stench from natural gas leak in California has driven thousands of residents away
2016-01-09 19:22:47| Energy - Topix.net
A sickening stench from an out-of-control natural gas leak has driven thousands of Los Angeles residents from an upscale community. The 11-week leak has spewed massive amounts of climate-changing methane and is blamed for headaches, nausea and nosebleeds.
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Stopping natural gas leak near Los Angeles is a complex fix
2016-01-09 18:22:43| Energy - Topix.net
A tricky fix is in the works to plug a massive gas leak from an underground storage well that has sickened residents of a Los Angeles neighborhood for 11 weeks. Gas company workers are drilling a relief well to intercept a leaking pipe from a natural gas storage field a mile and a half underground.
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How huge gas leak turning California Porter Ranch into a ghost town
2016-01-09 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: In the winter of 2008, a real estate column in the Los Angeles Times profiled Porter Ranch, a collection of subdivisions in the San Fernando Valley that feels utterly removed from the huge city on whose northern edge it lies. The neighborhood is graced with lush parks, the Neighborly Advice column gushed, and attracts residents seeking sanctuary from the urban hubbub. Toll Brothers, the upscale builder that has developed much of the land here, promises potential residents they will relax in...
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California declares state of emergency after methane gas leak forces thousands from homes
2016-01-09 04:08:21| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: An ongoing methane gas leak at a facility in Southern California whats been called the nations biggest environmental disaster since the BP oil spill has officially been declared an emergency by Governor Jerry Brown. Natural gas, or methane, first started leaking from Southern California Gas Co.s Aliso Canyon storage facility on October 23 last year. Some 2,300 homes have been evacuated in nearby Porter Ranch, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, after residents began experiencing nosebleeds,...
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