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Aliso Canyon gas leak: a damaging catastrophe

Aliso Canyon: In the hills above Hollywood and downtown LA, a storage well leaked natural gas for close to four months, silently and invisibly pumping dangerous volumes of emissions into the California air. Already the leak has set the states GHG reduction goals back ten years, so how was this ecological disaster handled?

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pv magazine

25 Feb 2016

The Aliso Canyon gas leak, or Porter Ranch gas leak, was a large, uncontrolled leak from a natural gas storage well in the Aliso Canyon facility, near Porter Ranch, Los Angeles. The leak, from a well belonging to the Southern California Gas Company, (SoCal Gas) a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, commenced on October 23, 2015, …

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