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"content": "\u003cp>Local air regulators are suing Southern California Gas Co. over the massive ongoing natural gas leak near the Los Angeles neighborhood of Porter Ranch, seeking millions of dollars in penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2698855-Civil-Suit-Against-SoCalGas.html\">The civil suit\u003c/a> alleges that SoCalGas's negligence led to injuries and has created \"an ongoing public nuisance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Coast Air Quality Management District's suit also notes the leak's deleterious impact on the environment, saying that global warming \"has caused significant harm to animals, plants and people around the globe\" and that the leak has increased the risk of future harm. The Los Angeles Times recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-porter-ranch-gas-leak-sg-20151225-storygallery.html\">broke down\u003c/a> the leak's impact on the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The accusation of negligence is broad. The lawsuit accuses the gas company of negligence in designing, constructing, operating and inspecting the well; negligently operating and inspecting the facility as a whole; negligently responding to the leak once it had begun; and negligently hiring and overseeing contractors to work at the well and the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"GVT7PlYFiaqXiZJYC7jlPvZLQ5yqzahu\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also accuses the company of knowingly violating the law, failing to act quickly enough to address the problem and causing physical harm to residents living near the leaking well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations carry a civil penalty, up to $250,000 for every day of the leak — a maximum that could push $30 million, given how long the utility expects it to take to cap the well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times and The Associated Press both say SoCalGas declined to comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaking storage well at the Aliso Canyon facility has been spewing methane — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/12/14/the-hidden-climate-threat-that-gas-companies-noticed-but-rarely-fixed/\" target=\"_blank\">a potent greenhouse gas\u003c/a> — into the air for months now, and isn't anticipated to be repaired until late February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The odorants in the gas can cause headaches, nausea and vomiting; toxic chemicals such as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/15/gas-company-understated-benzene-exposure-from-porter-ranch-leak\">the carcinogen benzene\u003c/a> are also present at low levels. In the case of benzene, the gas company and state regulators say those levels are safe, while the World Health Organization says there is no safe level of airborne benzene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people living in nearby Porter Ranch have been evacuated, and Gov. Jerry Brown has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/06/brown-declares-state-of-emergency-over-porter-ranch-gas-leak\">declared a state of emergency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early attempts to plug the well failed due to the high pressure of the leak, and efforts to shut down the well have been delayed until the gas company finishes digging a relief well to reduce the pressure. On Monday, the company announced the relief well has reached 8,400 feet deep and is 200 feet away from intercepting the leaking well — but crossing that last bit of distance \"requires precision and accuracy, which takes time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleging negligence comes just days after the same air-quality regulators \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/25/california-regulators-order-socalgas-to-permanently-close-leaking-well\">hit SoCalGas with an abatement order\u003c/a> instructing them to shut down the well permanently and to fund independent research into potential health effects of the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Porter Ranch residents were upset that the Air Quality Management District hadn't ordered the gas company to shut down the entire Aliso Canyon facility, which contains more than 100 wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, questions continue to mount around the practices SoCalGas was utilizing at Aliso Canyon — and the broader issue of how effectively natural gas storage facilities are regulated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10846970\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10846970\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"A SoCalGas worker at the company's Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. A new lawsuit accuses SoCalGas of negligently operating and inspecting the facility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-768x480.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-1440x899.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-1180x737.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SoCalGas worker at the company's Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. A new lawsuit accuses SoCalGas of negligently operating and inspecting the facility. \u003ccite>(Kim Rice-Bogdan/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Ingrid Lobet \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/01/21/463865377/california-examines-safety-of-gas-wells-amid-methane-leak\">reported on NPR's \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> last week\u003c/a>, the failed gas well was being used in a way that was risky but legal. The well consisted of a narrow tubing inside a casing — instead of using just the tubing to inject and withdraw gas, the company was using both. And the well, which is more than 60 years old, didn't have full concrete protection like a more modern well would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA Weekly had \u003ca href=\"http://www.laweekly.com/news/what-went-wrong-at-porter-ranch-6405804\">earlier reported\u003c/a> that a shutoff valve designed to stop catastrophic leaks was removed in the 1970s and never replaced — again, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/12/porter-ranch-gas-leak-spurs-legislation-to-avert-future-disasters\" target=\"_blank\">perfectly legal for that well\u003c/a>, but raising the risk of an unstoppable leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this week, Reuters reported that SoCalGas itself had been concerned over the infrastructure — even pieces of equipment that met regulators' criteria:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The leaking well's owner, Southern California Gas Co, warned state utility regulators in 2014 of 'major failures' without a rate hike to pay for comprehensive inspections of 229 storage wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twenty-six of its wells were 'high risk' and should be abandoned — even though they complied with state regulations, the utility wrote in a rate filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The previous year, Pacific Gas & Electric pointed to an absence of safety standards for storage wells as reason to launch its own monitoring program that went beyond state rules, according to an internal document obtained by Reuters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The industry's rising concern underscores the scant oversight of 400 underground natural gas storage facilities in 30 U.S. states. Most storage fields are regulated by states, but national industry groups have pushed for federal oversight - unusual in an industry better known for fighting regulation.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>You can read more from \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-losangeles-gas-leak-regulation-exclus-idUSKCN0V00DM\">Reuters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations carry a civil penalty, up to $250,000 for every day of the leak — a maximum that could push $30 million, given how long the utility expects it to take to cap the well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times and The Associated Press both say SoCalGas declined to comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaking storage well at the Aliso Canyon facility has been spewing methane — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/12/14/the-hidden-climate-threat-that-gas-companies-noticed-but-rarely-fixed/\" target=\"_blank\">a potent greenhouse gas\u003c/a> — into the air for months now, and isn't anticipated to be repaired until late February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The odorants in the gas can cause headaches, nausea and vomiting; toxic chemicals such as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/15/gas-company-understated-benzene-exposure-from-porter-ranch-leak\">the carcinogen benzene\u003c/a> are also present at low levels. In the case of benzene, the gas company and state regulators say those levels are safe, while the World Health Organization says there is no safe level of airborne benzene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people living in nearby Porter Ranch have been evacuated, and Gov. Jerry Brown has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/06/brown-declares-state-of-emergency-over-porter-ranch-gas-leak\">declared a state of emergency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early attempts to plug the well failed due to the high pressure of the leak, and efforts to shut down the well have been delayed until the gas company finishes digging a relief well to reduce the pressure. On Monday, the company announced the relief well has reached 8,400 feet deep and is 200 feet away from intercepting the leaking well — but crossing that last bit of distance \"requires precision and accuracy, which takes time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleging negligence comes just days after the same air-quality regulators \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/25/california-regulators-order-socalgas-to-permanently-close-leaking-well\">hit SoCalGas with an abatement order\u003c/a> instructing them to shut down the well permanently and to fund independent research into potential health effects of the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Porter Ranch residents were upset that the Air Quality Management District hadn't ordered the gas company to shut down the entire Aliso Canyon facility, which contains more than 100 wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, questions continue to mount around the practices SoCalGas was utilizing at Aliso Canyon — and the broader issue of how effectively natural gas storage facilities are regulated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10846970\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10846970\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"A SoCalGas worker at the company's Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. A new lawsuit accuses SoCalGas of negligently operating and inspecting the facility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-768x480.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-1440x899.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-1180x737.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SoCalGas worker at the company's Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. A new lawsuit accuses SoCalGas of negligently operating and inspecting the facility. \u003ccite>(Kim Rice-Bogdan/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Ingrid Lobet \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/01/21/463865377/california-examines-safety-of-gas-wells-amid-methane-leak\">reported on NPR's \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> last week\u003c/a>, the failed gas well was being used in a way that was risky but legal. The well consisted of a narrow tubing inside a casing — instead of using just the tubing to inject and withdraw gas, the company was using both. And the well, which is more than 60 years old, didn't have full concrete protection like a more modern well would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA Weekly had \u003ca href=\"http://www.laweekly.com/news/what-went-wrong-at-porter-ranch-6405804\">earlier reported\u003c/a> that a shutoff valve designed to stop catastrophic leaks was removed in the 1970s and never replaced — again, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/12/porter-ranch-gas-leak-spurs-legislation-to-avert-future-disasters\" target=\"_blank\">perfectly legal for that well\u003c/a>, but raising the risk of an unstoppable leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this week, Reuters reported that SoCalGas itself had been concerned over the infrastructure — even pieces of equipment that met regulators' criteria:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The leaking well's owner, Southern California Gas Co, warned state utility regulators in 2014 of 'major failures' without a rate hike to pay for comprehensive inspections of 229 storage wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twenty-six of its wells were 'high risk' and should be abandoned — even though they complied with state regulations, the utility wrote in a rate filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The previous year, Pacific Gas & Electric pointed to an absence of safety standards for storage wells as reason to launch its own monitoring program that went beyond state rules, according to an internal document obtained by Reuters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The industry's rising concern underscores the scant oversight of 400 underground natural gas storage facilities in 30 U.S. states. Most storage fields are regulated by states, but national industry groups have pushed for federal oversight - unusual in an industry better known for fighting regulation.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>You can read more from \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-losangeles-gas-leak-regulation-exclus-idUSKCN0V00DM\">Reuters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) finally manages to seal a natural gas storage well that's been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/porter-ranch\" target=\"_blank\">leaking for month\u003c/a>s, the company will have to shut the well down permanently, California regulators say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the meantime, the company will have to minimize air pollution from the ongoing leak and fund an independent study on potential health impacts on the surrounding community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Coast Air Quality Management District voted on \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/home/library/public-information/2016-news-archives/aliso-canyon-hb-order-issued-pr\">the new restrictions Saturday\u003c/a>. The order comes in response to a well in the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility that has been leaking since October, and isn't expected to be sealed off for another month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"X6XHUpRJx83eCrwyLbDNme01GWFxvvDz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive leak, in the outer reaches of Los Angeles, mostly consists of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, but also contains \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/15/gas-company-understated-benzene-exposure-from-porter-ranch-leak\">the carcinogen benzene\u003c/a> and other chemicals. The AP has said SoCalGas was not consistently alerting the public to unusually high levels of benzene. The company says none of the levels were dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compounds, added to natural gas to make it easier to detect, also have short-term side effects, including nausea and headaches, health officials say. Residents of the nearby Porter Ranch community have been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/07/reports-of-price-gouging-as-porter-ranch-families-look-for-temporary-homes\" target=\"_blank\">relocated to new homes\u003c/a> while the company works to cap the well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas says the leak poses no long-term risks to human health. One of the requirements of the new abatement order is that the company fund an independent study evaluating the impact of the leak on residents' health — including the consequence of exposure to the odorants added to the gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order also requires the company to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Permanently shut down and seal the well — not just fix the leak\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fund continuous air monitoring of the area\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Develop and implement a leak detection and reporting program covering all the wells at the facility\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Monitor the leaking well with an infrared camera for 30 days after the leak has ended (the gas is invisible to the naked eye)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Minimize gas leaking from the well as they work on the long-term solution.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Provide data to regulators to help calculate the total amount of methane leaked\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Submit a plan for notifying residents and the government of future emissions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Report all odor complaints to regulators\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Obtain approval from regulators before using \"odor suppressants or neutralizers\" to reduce the smell caused by the leak.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents were unhappy that regulators didn't go further and order SoCalGas to shut down the entire Aliso Canyon facility, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-porter-ranch-regulators-approve-comprehensive-abatement-order-over-massive-gas-leak-20160123-story.html\">the Los Angeles Times reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10844733\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10844733\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-800x1006.jpg\" alt=\"Workers on-site at a relief well at SoCalGas' Aliso Canyon Storage Facility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1006\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-800x1006.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-400x503.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-768x966.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1440x1811.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1180x1484.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-960x1207.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers on-site at a relief well at SoCalGas' Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. \u003ccite>(Lance DeLaura/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/06/brown-declares-state-of-emergency-over-porter-ranch-gas-leak\" target=\"_blank\">declared a state of emergency\u003c/a> over the leaking well earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company attempted to plug the well several times, but the pressure of the leak overwhelmed the would-be blockages. The failed efforts appear to have weakened the well and increased the risk of a blowout, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-aliso-well-hole-20160115-story.html\">the L.A. Times has reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas is drilling a relief well to reduce the pressure before plugging the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/01/21/463865377/california-examines-safety-of-gas-wells-amid-methane-leak\">On NPR's \"All Things Considered\" last week\u003c/a>, Ingrid Lobet of the investigative news organization inewsource reported on the injection practices that may have contributed to the well's failure:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/463865377/463865398\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"An examination of state oil and gas records shows, and a state official confirms that the gas well that failed was being injected in a way that, while legal, can be risky. It's like this: Many wells have both a seven-inch casing and a narrow inner metal tubing. Think of it as a metal straw within another metal straw.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Natural gas was being forced down this well through both straws.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Experts told Lobet that injecting and withdrawing only through the inner tubing is safer, and protects the well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The well, which was drilled in 1953, was used heavily — with injections almost daily, Lobet says. \"Like many wells its age, it also didn't have a full cement job. Cementing protects underground aquifers and it protects the well, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobet said the company declined to comment on its practices, but that a representative had previously said it would be premature to talk about the cause of the well failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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One of the requirements of the new abatement order is that the company fund an independent study evaluating the impact of the leak on residents' health — including the consequence of exposure to the odorants added to the gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order also requires the company to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Permanently shut down and seal the well — not just fix the leak\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fund continuous air monitoring of the area\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Develop and implement a leak detection and reporting program covering all the wells at the facility\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Monitor the leaking well with an infrared camera for 30 days after the leak has ended (the gas is invisible to the naked eye)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Minimize gas leaking from the well as they work on the long-term solution.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Provide data to regulators to help calculate the total amount of methane leaked\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Submit a plan for notifying residents and the government of future emissions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Report all odor complaints to regulators\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Obtain approval from regulators before using \"odor suppressants or neutralizers\" to reduce the smell caused by the leak.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents were unhappy that regulators didn't go further and order SoCalGas to shut down the entire Aliso Canyon facility, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-porter-ranch-regulators-approve-comprehensive-abatement-order-over-massive-gas-leak-20160123-story.html\">the Los Angeles Times reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10844733\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10844733\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-800x1006.jpg\" alt=\"Workers on-site at a relief well at SoCalGas' Aliso Canyon Storage Facility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1006\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-800x1006.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-400x503.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-768x966.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1440x1811.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1180x1484.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-960x1207.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers on-site at a relief well at SoCalGas' Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. \u003ccite>(Lance DeLaura/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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It's like this: Many wells have both a seven-inch casing and a narrow inner metal tubing. Think of it as a metal straw within another metal straw.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Natural gas was being forced down this well through both straws.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Experts told Lobet that injecting and withdrawing only through the inner tubing is safer, and protects the well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The well, which was drilled in 1953, was used heavily — with injections almost daily, Lobet says. \"Like many wells its age, it also didn't have a full cement job. Cementing protects underground aquifers and it protects the well, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobet said the company declined to comment on its practices, but that a representative had previously said it would be premature to talk about the cause of the well failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Southern California Gas Co. said this week that it has abandoned \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/15/socalgas-aims-to-capture-methane-in-attempt-to-address-porter-ranch-leak\" target=\"_blank\">efforts to trap and burn the gas\u003c/a> released by a huge natural gas leak in Los Angeles, but also said the 12-week-old leak should be stopped ahead of schedule -- by the end of February or sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burnoff plan is being abandoned over fears that it could not be done safely, SoCalGas, which is owned by Sempra Energy, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators were scheduled to vote Wednesday on the plan, which had been intended to give quicker relief to residents suffering sickness and irritation because of the emissions. But the plan led to worries of explosions in the Porter Ranch neighborhood where the well is located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"NzYnhV6CRR6LtFGu6LYD3mwjI0Um7KNK\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do not feel the benefits outweigh the safety risks,\" company senior vice president Jimmie Cho said. \"I’m not going to take any unnecessary safety risks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rejected plan was composed of three parts: collecting gas in an open pipe positioned above the broken well, shunting it to a high-tech oven where the methane would be incinerated, and filtering what remains through a deep bed of charcoal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collecting the methane through an open pipe that was not securely connected to the wellhead was the risky part of the plan, Cho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk was that the methane -- which is safe from ignition at very low and very high concentrations -- might combine with air or other compounds and become more volatile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/01/19/56926/porter-ranch-gas-leak-to-be-stopped-ahead-of-sched/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story via KPCC\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, SoCalGas continues to drill the relief well it began drilling in December. The company released a video explaining the process, noting that it is in Phase 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMU_7LcOrIA\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>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.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to concerns over the disaster, efforts to stop the leak appear to have destabilized the well, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-aliso-well-hole-20160115-story.html\">the Los Angeles Times reports\u003c/a>, raising the risk of a blowout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leak at Porter Ranch, which recently prompted California to declare \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/06/brown-declares-state-of-emergency-over-porter-ranch-gas-leak\">a state of emergency\u003c/a>, has been spewing enormous quantities of the greenhouse gas methane into the air \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/23/porter-ranch-residents-at-wits-end-over-months-old-gas-leak\">for months\u003c/a>. It's expected to take months more to fix. The disaster \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/01/11/462627012/la-councilman-compares-porter-ranch-gas-leak-to-bp-oil-spill-but-on-land\">has been compared to the BP oil spill\u003c/a> for its impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company that owns the leaking well, Southern California Gas Co., \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/12/14/56207/socal-gas-took-days-to-inform-residents-local-agen/\">has been under fire\u003c/a> for not quickly communicating to nearby residents when the leak (which is invisible to the naked eye) began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10833735\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10833735\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1.jpg\" alt=\"Workers on-site at a relief well SoCalGas drilled to try and stop the leak at its Aliso Canyon Storage Facility.\" width=\"768\" height=\"934\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1-400x486.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers on-site at a relief well SoCalGas drilled to try and stop the leak at its Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. \u003ccite>(Lance DeLaura/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now the AP says the utility has also been less than transparent about the results of its air tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas \"understated the number of times airborne levels of the cancer-causing chemical benzene have spiked during the crisis,\" the wire service reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice-daily \u003ca href=\"https://www.alisoupdates.com/acu-aliso-canyon-air-sample-results\">air sample results\u003c/a> have been posted online by the company. Summarizing the results, the company said benzene — which is known to cause \u003ca href=\"http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/benzene/basics/facts.asp\">leukemia and anemia\u003c/a> — was detected at \"extremely low concentrations ... consistent with the levels expected for the area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Coast Air Quality Management District's \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/air-quality/air-toxic-studies/mates-iv/mates-iv-final-draft-report-4-1-15.pdf?sfvrsn=7\">most recent report on air pollution\u003c/a> notes that average levels of benzene across the L.A. area are less than 0.5 parts per billion. But the company puts \"levels expected for the area\" at up to 2 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP reports says that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Apparently relying on that standard, SoCalGas originally said that benzene was found in amounts slightly higher than background levels in just two samples, both on Nov. 10. The suspect readings were 5.6 parts per billion in one gated development about a mile from the well and 3.7 parts per billion in the Porter Ranch Estates neighborhood of 1,100 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"However, a more detailed look at the data by the AP and outside experts showed at least 10 other instances over seven days in November when benzene exceeded 1 part per billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In its update Thursday, SoCalGas said that nearly 1,200 tests had found 14 instances where benzene exceeded 1 part per billion, including one time in December.\"\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A SoCalGas spokeswoman called the omission of those readings from the summaries \"an oversight,\" the AP says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company maintains there's no health risk posed by the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how much benzene threatens human health? It depends on whom you ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>SoCalGas points to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=10043\">OSHA standard\u003c/a> for acceptable workplace exposure, which is 1,000 ppb over an eight-hour period.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://oehha.ca.gov/air/chronic_rels/pdf/BenzeneRELsJune2014.pdf\">California's EPA\u003c/a> has defined stricter levels for benzene: 8 ppb for acute exposure (one hour) and 1 ppb for eight-hour or chronic exposure.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The World Health Organization maintains there is \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/ipcs/features/benzene.pdf\">no safe concentration of benzene.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-aliso-well-hole-20160115-story.html\">reports\u003c/a> that SoCalGas' efforts to cap the well have actually increased the risk of a blowout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"KSBPwVARzVWbX3cKA8YnSpQtbpEUeYUL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven attempts to plug the leak have made the area less stable, the paper reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The chief deputy director of the [California Department of Conservation], Jason Marshall, and a senior oil and gas field regulator assigned to daily watch at Aliso Canyon, Scott McGurk, told The Times the site and wellhead were made more unstable by the gas company's attempts to stop the leak by pumping a slurry directly into the well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last of those efforts, which stretched over several days beginning Dec. 22, expanded a crater around the wellhead, state and gas company officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The crater is now 25 feet deep, 80 feet long and 30 feet wide, those officials said. The wellhead sits exposed within the cavernous space, held in place with cables attached after it wobbled during the plugging attempt, Marshall and McGurk said. The well pipe and its control valves are exposed and unsupported within that hole, atop a deep field of pressurized gas. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\" 'If the wellhead fails, the thing is just going to be full blast,' said Gene Nelson, a physical sciences professor at Cuesta College. \"It will be a horrible, horrible problem. The leak rates would go way up.' \"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The newspaper also notes that even without a blowout, the leak could catch on fire. It quoted California Department of Conservation spokesman Don Drysdale as saying the possibility is \"a concern.\" You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-aliso-well-hole-20160115-story.html\">read the Times' full report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>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.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to concerns over the disaster, efforts to stop the leak appear to have destabilized the well, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-aliso-well-hole-20160115-story.html\">the Los Angeles Times reports\u003c/a>, raising the risk of a blowout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leak at Porter Ranch, which recently prompted California to declare \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/06/brown-declares-state-of-emergency-over-porter-ranch-gas-leak\">a state of emergency\u003c/a>, has been spewing enormous quantities of the greenhouse gas methane into the air \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/23/porter-ranch-residents-at-wits-end-over-months-old-gas-leak\">for months\u003c/a>. It's expected to take months more to fix. The disaster \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/01/11/462627012/la-councilman-compares-porter-ranch-gas-leak-to-bp-oil-spill-but-on-land\">has been compared to the BP oil spill\u003c/a> for its impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company that owns the leaking well, Southern California Gas Co., \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/12/14/56207/socal-gas-took-days-to-inform-residents-local-agen/\">has been under fire\u003c/a> for not quickly communicating to nearby residents when the leak (which is invisible to the naked eye) began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10833735\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10833735\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1.jpg\" alt=\"Workers on-site at a relief well SoCalGas drilled to try and stop the leak at its Aliso Canyon Storage Facility.\" width=\"768\" height=\"934\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1-400x486.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers on-site at a relief well SoCalGas drilled to try and stop the leak at its Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. \u003ccite>(Lance DeLaura/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now the AP says the utility has also been less than transparent about the results of its air tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas \"understated the number of times airborne levels of the cancer-causing chemical benzene have spiked during the crisis,\" the wire service reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice-daily \u003ca href=\"https://www.alisoupdates.com/acu-aliso-canyon-air-sample-results\">air sample results\u003c/a> have been posted online by the company. Summarizing the results, the company said benzene — which is known to cause \u003ca href=\"http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/benzene/basics/facts.asp\">leukemia and anemia\u003c/a> — was detected at \"extremely low concentrations ... consistent with the levels expected for the area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Coast Air Quality Management District's \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/air-quality/air-toxic-studies/mates-iv/mates-iv-final-draft-report-4-1-15.pdf?sfvrsn=7\">most recent report on air pollution\u003c/a> notes that average levels of benzene across the L.A. area are less than 0.5 parts per billion. But the company puts \"levels expected for the area\" at up to 2 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP reports says that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Apparently relying on that standard, SoCalGas originally said that benzene was found in amounts slightly higher than background levels in just two samples, both on Nov. 10. The suspect readings were 5.6 parts per billion in one gated development about a mile from the well and 3.7 parts per billion in the Porter Ranch Estates neighborhood of 1,100 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"However, a more detailed look at the data by the AP and outside experts showed at least 10 other instances over seven days in November when benzene exceeded 1 part per billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In its update Thursday, SoCalGas said that nearly 1,200 tests had found 14 instances where benzene exceeded 1 part per billion, including one time in December.\"\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A SoCalGas spokeswoman called the omission of those readings from the summaries \"an oversight,\" the AP says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company maintains there's no health risk posed by the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how much benzene threatens human health? It depends on whom you ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>SoCalGas points to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=10043\">OSHA standard\u003c/a> for acceptable workplace exposure, which is 1,000 ppb over an eight-hour period.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://oehha.ca.gov/air/chronic_rels/pdf/BenzeneRELsJune2014.pdf\">California's EPA\u003c/a> has defined stricter levels for benzene: 8 ppb for acute exposure (one hour) and 1 ppb for eight-hour or chronic exposure.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The World Health Organization maintains there is \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/ipcs/features/benzene.pdf\">no safe concentration of benzene.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-aliso-well-hole-20160115-story.html\">reports\u003c/a> that SoCalGas' efforts to cap the well have actually increased the risk of a blowout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven attempts to plug the leak have made the area less stable, the paper reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The chief deputy director of the [California Department of Conservation], Jason Marshall, and a senior oil and gas field regulator assigned to daily watch at Aliso Canyon, Scott McGurk, told The Times the site and wellhead were made more unstable by the gas company's attempts to stop the leak by pumping a slurry directly into the well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last of those efforts, which stretched over several days beginning Dec. 22, expanded a crater around the wellhead, state and gas company officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The crater is now 25 feet deep, 80 feet long and 30 feet wide, those officials said. The wellhead sits exposed within the cavernous space, held in place with cables attached after it wobbled during the plugging attempt, Marshall and McGurk said. The well pipe and its control valves are exposed and unsupported within that hole, atop a deep field of pressurized gas. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\" 'If the wellhead fails, the thing is just going to be full blast,' said Gene Nelson, a physical sciences professor at Cuesta College. \"It will be a horrible, horrible problem. The leak rates would go way up.' \"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The newspaper also notes that even without a blowout, the leak could catch on fire. It quoted California Department of Conservation spokesman Don Drysdale as saying the possibility is \"a concern.\" You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-aliso-well-hole-20160115-story.html\">read the Times' full report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>As methane \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/06/brown-declares-state-of-emergency-over-porter-ranch-gas-leak\" target=\"_blank\">continues to billow out\u003c/a> of the Aliso Canyon storage field in Los Angeles County, Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) is seeking permission to try to capture the leak and possibly incinerate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers detected the leak almost three months ago. Initial repairs failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas shot a heavy, sticky fluid into the leak, a kind of mud crossed with chewing gum. But the high pressure of the leak blew this “well kill” right back out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/241930199\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To date the company has attempted seven separate attempts to plug the well directly in this standard manner, but none has worked,” says Bob Wyman, a lawyer with the firm Latham & Watkins, which is representing SoCalGas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the company is drilling new wells to relieve pressure and reduce the flow of the leak, to enable another attempt to plug the well nearer to its source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/23/porter-ranch-residents-at-wits-end-over-months-old-gas-leak\" target=\"_blank\">another kind of pressure is growing\u003c/a>. Thousands of people living in nearby Porter Ranch, a community in the City of Los Angeles, have relocated away from the leak. Those who remain continue to complain of headaches, nausea and nosebleeds. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/08/l-a-sues-socal-gas-over-month-long-porter-ranch-leak\" target=\"_blank\">Lawsuits are piling up\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10832869\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell-1440x2160.jpg\" alt=\"A relief well at SoCalGas' Aliso Canyon Storage Facility.\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10832869\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell-1440x2160.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A relief well at SoCalGas' Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. \u003ccite>(Kim Rice-Bogdan/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas says it has been developing a plan to capture fugitive natural gas since mid-November. Now the company has applied to the South Coast Air Quality Management District for permits to enact its plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The company would use pipes,\" says the district’s Sam Atwood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big ones. Imagine a straw 3 feet wide hovering over the leak, sucking in methane and air. Rough estimates suggest the company could catch up to 90 percent of the methane as the leak slows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The gas would have to be piped to some distance from the wellhead for safety reasons,” Atwood says. “And then it would be either captured and, or, it would be incinerated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing SoCalGas could do is bring in an adsorption system, equipment that could eliminate foul odors. Jen Wilcox, a professor of energy systems engineering at Stanford, says an activated carbon filter system could do for escaping natural gas what home purifiers do for water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s just a, you know, charcoal kind of material,” she says. “It’s porous. And what it’s doing is selectively removing contaminants from the air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">If the company burns the methane, it would eventually create enough pollution to need the kind of permit required for big refineries.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The pores could capture problematic molecules in the chemical mercaptan, which is a stinky additive used to help identify when odorless, colorless methane is around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that methane remains a concern, because the state requires all utilities to cut contributions to global warming. So, under another scenario, the company may burn what it captures from the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not an irrational thing to do. It’s just a difficult thing to do,” says Roger Aines, a geochemist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equipment often used by oil companies would allow SoCalGas to burn methane inside a ceramic chamber, or a sort of kiln. 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If the company burns this methane, it would eventually create enough pollution to need the kind of permit required for big refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All these unknowns make the gas field’s neighbors nervous -- including Matt Pakucko, a founder of Save Porter Ranch, a grass-roots group that wants to shut the gas field down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are greatly concerned with the possible unintended consequences of that plan,” he told a hearing board for the AQMD. “This does not sound safe. Especially since SoCalGas has failed in all attempts to stop or mitigate their nuisance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pakucko and other homeowners say they don’t trust SoCalGas. That’s why they’re pushing politicians to investigate not only why the leak happened but why a gas capture plan wasn’t in place sooner.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Those who remain continue to complain of headaches, nausea and nosebleeds. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/08/l-a-sues-socal-gas-over-month-long-porter-ranch-leak\" target=\"_blank\">Lawsuits are piling up\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10832869\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell-1440x2160.jpg\" alt=\"A relief well at SoCalGas' Aliso Canyon Storage Facility.\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10832869\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell-1440x2160.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWell-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A relief well at SoCalGas' Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. \u003ccite>(Kim Rice-Bogdan/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas says it has been developing a plan to capture fugitive natural gas since mid-November. 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"content": "\u003cp>People say the rotten-egg stench is everywhere. First it’s irritating, then sickening, then crushing, maddening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Day in, day out.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katelin, 8 years old, says she can’t stand to play outside anymore. A 10-year-old boy says he hasn’t been able to pay attention at school -- all he wants to do is go home, make sure all the doors and windows are shut tight, and pull down the shades and go to sleep.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need air!” says Andrew Krowne, Katelin's father. \"You’re saying not to go outside and breathe?”\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Porter Ranch neighborhood where these people live is next to SoCalGas’ Aliso Canyon Storage Facility, a complex of pumped-out oil wells in the Simi Hills, 28 miles west of downtown Los Angeles. Here, SoCalGas pumps natural gas under pressure into spongelike sandstone formations thousands of feet beneath the earth’s surface.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company first reported a leak in the facility's Well 25 on \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">Oct. 23\u003c/span>\u003c/span>, and it’s been spewing methane unchecked ever since. California Air Resources Board officials say that every day the well vents enough gas to fill the Empire State Building.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238819892\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and each month the leak in Aliso Canyon goes unchecked \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/12/14/the-hidden-climate-threat-that-gas-companies-noticed-but-rarely-fixed/\" target=\"_blank\">contributes the same amount to global warming\u003c/a> as adding another 200,000 cars on the road for a year, CARB spokesman David Clegern said.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As emergency crews work around the clock to stop the leak, the state official in charge of well regulation has called the accident a very unusual event that would have been hard to predict.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others say sloppy state oversight could lead to more such disasters.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This field has over 90 more wells up here that are just as old as the well that’s leaking now,” says Walker Foley, an organizer with Food & Water Watch, an environmental group. \"This field is a catastrophe waiting to happen.”\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QSwzgGOWjhK4WpBCIjzTLRoQSn5DWZI1\"]The gas itself is odorless, but it’s treated with mercaptans, sulfur-based odorants meant to raise an alarm when methane escapes.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gillian Wright, SoCalGas vice president for customer services, some 20 sampling devices on and around the company’s property have failed to detect hydrocarbons, or even mercaptans, above regulatory thresholds.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though county health officials don’t expect the additives to cause any long-term illnesses, they often make people feel very ill when they’re exposed to them, said Cyrus Rangan, who heads the L.A. county health department’s Bureau of Toxicology and Environmental Assessment.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The] physiologic response is actual health symptoms that include nausea, headaches, dizziness, lightheadedness, some respiratory problems,” Rangan says. “So, they are real symptoms. They are happening every day for a lot of people, and they’re getting worse for a lot of people as well.”\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10805407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10805407 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PorterRanch-1440x964.jpg\" alt=\"PorterRanch\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PorterRanch-1440x964.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PorterRanch-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PorterRanch-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PorterRanch-768x514.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PorterRanch-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PorterRanch-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PorterRanch-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/PorterRanch.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Porter Ranch residents and environmental activists from throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area picketed recently outside the entrance to the Aliso Canyon Storage Facility, operated by SoCalGas. A huge natural gas leak there has gone unchecked for two months. (Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas has paid to relocate about 2,100 families away from the putrid fumes, and there are another 550 or so on a waiting list.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A.’s city attorney has sued the company for allegedly creating a public nuisance, and \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">on Tuesday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> he \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacityattorney.org/#!Los-Angeles-City-Attorney-Mike-Feuer-Seeks-Temporary-Restraining-Order-Against-SoCal-Gas-Over-Porter-Ranch-Gas-Leak-Will-Also-Seek-to-Depose-Key-Gas-Company-Employees/c1143/5679a8dd0cf203da56e8964b\" target=\"_blank\">sought a restraining order\u003c/a> that would compel the gas company to act more quickly to find temporary shelter for people affected by the leak. City Attorney Mike Feuer argues that nobody in that situation should have to wait more than 48 hours after requesting relocation assistance.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A law firm associated with environmental activist Erin Brockovich has been signing people up for individual lawsuits, and another firm has filed a class-action case. Los Angeles school district officials have closed two campuses and authorized a possible lawsuit.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander, who represents neighborhoods near the well, says he values the help his constituents have received, including investigations by a broad array of state agencies.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a big question that’s been looming to me from the beginning of this,” Englander told the crowd at a forum organized by Brockovich’s legal team to recruit plaintiffs for litigation. “Where’s our governor? I don’t know why he hasn’t been here on site. He’s the only that can actually declare a state of emergency if that’s truly needed. He can bring in the outside resources and contact the feds. So yeah, Jerry Brown, wherever you are, come to Porter Ranch as quickly as possible. We need your help.”\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Bout, assistant director for response at Brown’s Office of Emergency Services, said the leak doesn’t fit the guidelines for an emergency declaration, because SoCalGas has been paying for temporary housing and other emergency needs and because the state’s Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) already has the authority it needs.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Bohlen, state oil and gas supervisor and the head of DOGGR, says his staff tells him this kind of leak actually was hard to see coming. He ordered SoCalGas to stop pumping into any storage reservoirs around the well, to reduce pressure on the leak.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe we have some of the best advisers available, and we will work with the company to make sure they’re doing the right things that are both protecting public safety and getting the well closed as quickly as possible,” says Bohlen, who resigned on Nov. 30 but remains DOGGR's designated authority on the well leak.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornell University engineering professor Tony Ingraffea -- a former petrochemical industry insider and outspoken critic of industry practices -- says with California’s regulatory record, the Aliso Canyon leak should be no surprise.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Routine is, ‘Well, we just didn’t get around to it. We don’t have enough manpower. We didn’t get the reports on time from the company. The company failed to fill out the reports adequately.’ ” Ingraffea says. “Now that process goes on and on and on, weeks, months, years. And then something like this happens, and routine becomes negligence.”\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public documents included with \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2653468-Porter-Ranch-Gas-Leak-Complaint-Perris.html\" target=\"_blank\">one of the lawsuits\u003c/a> show a number of wells around the leak site that are \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2653467-Missing-Data.html\" target=\"_blank\">missing pressure data\u003c/a>. Bohlen says it’s not clear whether operators failed to report the data or regulators failed to record it.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just weeks before the Porter Ranch leak was reported in October, DOGGR \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2653469-2015-22-DOC-Issues-Renewal-Plan-for-Oil-and-Gas.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced plans\u003c/a> to reform shortcomings in the regional office, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2653498-Renewal-Plan-10-08-2015.html\" target=\"_blank\">outdated enforcement policies and sloppy record keeping\u003c/a>.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bohlen says there’s no indication yet that either state regulators or SoCalGas did anything wrong at the leak site, and he’s confident the division is correcting its past shortcomings.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have completely turned the division’s direction to being very proactive. We’re issuing many, many more orders, notices of violations and so forth,” he says.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, former oil and gas geologist Briana Mordick points out that the shaft of the well \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2653471-03700776-DATA-03-19-2008.html\" target=\"_blank\">appears to be only partially reinforced with concrete\u003c/a>. Mordick is now a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and a critic of state regulation of injection wells like the one that is leaking now.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Best practice would have more cement,” she says. “Certainly, you would want to make sure that any zones that contain fluid or things like that were shut off. One of the problems you can have in a situation where you don’t have cement is the casing could be corroding on the back side.”\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A SoCalGas project manager replied to an interview request with an email saying the company won’t know what caused the leak until it has completed a thorough review. That won’t happen until after the leak is plugged, the email states.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews are working around the clock to tap into the well shaft, near where it meets a subterranean reservoir. Once they hit the shaft, they’ll inject heavy mud and fluids to choke the flow of gas.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drilling could take another four months.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company first reported a leak in the facility's Well 25 on \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">Oct. 23\u003c/span>\u003c/span>, and it’s been spewing methane unchecked ever since. California Air Resources Board officials say that every day the well vents enough gas to fill the Empire State Building.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238819892&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238819892'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and each month the leak in Aliso Canyon goes unchecked \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/12/14/the-hidden-climate-threat-that-gas-companies-noticed-but-rarely-fixed/\" target=\"_blank\">contributes the same amount to global warming\u003c/a> as adding another 200,000 cars on the road for a year, CARB spokesman David Clegern said.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As emergency crews work around the clock to stop the leak, the state official in charge of well regulation has called the accident a very unusual event that would have been hard to predict.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others say sloppy state oversight could lead to more such disasters.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This field has over 90 more wells up here that are just as old as the well that’s leaking now,” says Walker Foley, an organizer with Food & Water Watch, an environmental group. \"This field is a catastrophe waiting to happen.”\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The gas itself is odorless, but it’s treated with mercaptans, sulfur-based odorants meant to raise an alarm when methane escapes.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gillian Wright, SoCalGas vice president for customer services, some 20 sampling devices on and around the company’s property have failed to detect hydrocarbons, or even mercaptans, above regulatory thresholds.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though county health officials don’t expect the additives to cause any long-term illnesses, they often make people feel very ill when they’re exposed to them, said Cyrus Rangan, who heads the L.A. county health department’s Bureau of Toxicology and Environmental Assessment.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The] physiologic response is actual health symptoms that include nausea, headaches, dizziness, lightheadedness, some respiratory problems,” Rangan says. “So, they are real symptoms. 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A huge natural gas leak there has gone unchecked for two months. (Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas has paid to relocate about 2,100 families away from the putrid fumes, and there are another 550 or so on a waiting list.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A.’s city attorney has sued the company for allegedly creating a public nuisance, and \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">on Tuesday\u003c/span>\u003c/span> he \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacityattorney.org/#!Los-Angeles-City-Attorney-Mike-Feuer-Seeks-Temporary-Restraining-Order-Against-SoCal-Gas-Over-Porter-Ranch-Gas-Leak-Will-Also-Seek-to-Depose-Key-Gas-Company-Employees/c1143/5679a8dd0cf203da56e8964b\" target=\"_blank\">sought a restraining order\u003c/a> that would compel the gas company to act more quickly to find temporary shelter for people affected by the leak. City Attorney Mike Feuer argues that nobody in that situation should have to wait more than 48 hours after requesting relocation assistance.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A law firm associated with environmental activist Erin Brockovich has been signing people up for individual lawsuits, and another firm has filed a class-action case. Los Angeles school district officials have closed two campuses and authorized a possible lawsuit.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander, who represents neighborhoods near the well, says he values the help his constituents have received, including investigations by a broad array of state agencies.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a big question that’s been looming to me from the beginning of this,” Englander told the crowd at a forum organized by Brockovich’s legal team to recruit plaintiffs for litigation. “Where’s our governor? I don’t know why he hasn’t been here on site. He’s the only that can actually declare a state of emergency if that’s truly needed. He can bring in the outside resources and contact the feds. So yeah, Jerry Brown, wherever you are, come to Porter Ranch as quickly as possible. We need your help.”\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Bout, assistant director for response at Brown’s Office of Emergency Services, said the leak doesn’t fit the guidelines for an emergency declaration, because SoCalGas has been paying for temporary housing and other emergency needs and because the state’s Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) already has the authority it needs.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Bohlen, state oil and gas supervisor and the head of DOGGR, says his staff tells him this kind of leak actually was hard to see coming. He ordered SoCalGas to stop pumping into any storage reservoirs around the well, to reduce pressure on the leak.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe we have some of the best advisers available, and we will work with the company to make sure they’re doing the right things that are both protecting public safety and getting the well closed as quickly as possible,” says Bohlen, who resigned on Nov. 30 but remains DOGGR's designated authority on the well leak.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornell University engineering professor Tony Ingraffea -- a former petrochemical industry insider and outspoken critic of industry practices -- says with California’s regulatory record, the Aliso Canyon leak should be no surprise.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Routine is, ‘Well, we just didn’t get around to it. We don’t have enough manpower. We didn’t get the reports on time from the company. The company failed to fill out the reports adequately.’ ” Ingraffea says. “Now that process goes on and on and on, weeks, months, years. And then something like this happens, and routine becomes negligence.”\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public documents included with \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2653468-Porter-Ranch-Gas-Leak-Complaint-Perris.html\" target=\"_blank\">one of the lawsuits\u003c/a> show a number of wells around the leak site that are \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2653467-Missing-Data.html\" target=\"_blank\">missing pressure data\u003c/a>. Bohlen says it’s not clear whether operators failed to report the data or regulators failed to record it.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just weeks before the Porter Ranch leak was reported in October, DOGGR \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2653469-2015-22-DOC-Issues-Renewal-Plan-for-Oil-and-Gas.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced plans\u003c/a> to reform shortcomings in the regional office, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2653498-Renewal-Plan-10-08-2015.html\" target=\"_blank\">outdated enforcement policies and sloppy record keeping\u003c/a>.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bohlen says there’s no indication yet that either state regulators or SoCalGas did anything wrong at the leak site, and he’s confident the division is correcting its past shortcomings.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have completely turned the division’s direction to being very proactive. We’re issuing many, many more orders, notices of violations and so forth,” he says.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, former oil and gas geologist Briana Mordick points out that the shaft of the well \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2653471-03700776-DATA-03-19-2008.html\" target=\"_blank\">appears to be only partially reinforced with concrete\u003c/a>. Mordick is now a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and a critic of state regulation of injection wells like the one that is leaking now.\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Best practice would have more cement,” she says. “Certainly, you would want to make sure that any zones that contain fluid or things like that were shut off. 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