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"Unstoppable" California Gas Leak Now Being Called Worst Catastrophe Since BP Spill

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Since initially reporting on California'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, "the enormity of the Aliso Canyon gas leak cannot be overstated. Gas is escaping through a ruptured pipe more than 8,000 feet underground, and it shows no signs of stopping," as according to the California Air Resources Board, methane - a greenhouse gas 72 times more impactful in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide - has been escaping from the Aliso Canyon site with force equivalent “to a volcanic eruption” for about two months now.

New infrared footage exposes the massive leak..

 

Infographic of leak (and potential solution)

 

As TheAntiMedia.org's Claire Bernish details, methane gas continues spewing, unchecked, into the air over southern California from a fractured well to an underground storage site — 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, blow the entire area to hell.  

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.

This methane disaster is worse than can be sufficiently described in words, because while it’s estimated well over 100,000 pounds of methane spew into the atmosphere every hour, the leak can’t be halted, at least until spring. Even then, that stoppage depends entirely on the efficacy of a proposed fix — which remains a dubiously open question.

According to the California Air Resources Board, methane — a greenhouse gas 72 times more impactful in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide — has been escaping from the Aliso Canyon site with force equivalent “to a volcanic eruption” for about two months now. So far, the total leaked gas measures somewhere around 100,000 tons — adding “approximately one-quarter to the regular statewide methane emissions” during that same time frame.

“The relative magnitude of emissions from the leak compared to other sources of methane in the State underscores the urgency of stopping the gas leak. This comes on top of any problems caused by odor and any potential impacts from exposure,” states the initial report on the Aliso leak by air quality officials.

The enormity of the Aliso Canyon gas leak cannot be overstated. Gas is escaping through a ruptured pipe more than 8,000 feet underground, and it shows no signs of stopping. As the pressure from the weight on top of the pipe causes the gas to diffuse, it only continues to dissipate across a wider and wider area,” explained Erin Brockovich, who spent time in nearby Porter Ranch investigating the leak.

Officials and experts are concerned, and they can’t recall another leak of this magnitude in decades — if ever. “I asked this question of our staff of 30 years,” said Steve Bohlen, who recently left his position as state supervisor of oil and gas. “This is unique in the last three or four decades. This is an unusual event, period.”

Though methane, itself, has no odor, the addition of odorants methyl mercaptan and tetrahydrothiophene — a safety measure to alert people by smell to the presence of natural gas — has made the enormous methane seepage impossible to ignore. Thousands of households have evacuated the area, despite little help, much less information, from the gas company about when they might be able to return. As reported by the Los Angeles Times, SoCalGas spokesperson Michael Mizrahi claimed the company had paid to relocate and house 2,092 households — but that effort is severely lacking, says Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer.

Yesterday, the city attorney’s office sought a restraining order to mandate SoCalGas relocate residents in the affected area within 48 hours of their request; and it is also seeking a “special master” to oversee the entire relocation operation, which is currently being handled by the gas company. Not only does the present relocation lack speed and coordination, but a housing crunch has resulted in surrounding areas — in some cases landlords, who prefer year-long leases to shorter terms, have driven rent as high as $8,500 per month. Hotels are operating at capacity, and in “some of those hotel rooms there are not enough beds for the people who are being moved,” explained chief deputy to the city attorney, James P. Clark.

“It’s time Porter Ranch residents had direct and complete answers about all facets of this leak,” Clark continued, “including what caused it, how to stop it, and what will be done to assure it never happens again. They should receive better, quicker, and completely adequate relocation assistance.”

On Thursday, Los Angeles Unified School District board members voted unanimously to close two Porter Ranch schools and relocate their 1,900 students and staff to different locations for the foreseeable future. A local emergency has been declared by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

Multiple lawsuits have now been initiated against SoCalGas and/or its parent company, Sempra Energy. A Los Angeles firm representing three of the families, who filed their suit Friday, described in a statement that the well has been “leaking noxious odors, hazardous gases, chemicals, pollutants, and contaminants due to a massive well failure and blowout. However, SoCalGas failed to inform residents of neighboring communities of the disastrous gas leak in a timely manner, putting the health and well-being of thousands of families in jeopardy.” Those suits allege “negligence, strict liability of ultra-hazardous activity, private nuisance, inverse condemnation, and trespass.”

A class-action lawsuit has also been filed on behalf of the Save Porter Ranch group; and City Attorney Mike Feuer filed a civil suit earlier this month due to the leak’s continued threat to residents’ health and damage to the environment, alleging failure by SoCalGas to prevent the leak and further exacerbation of “the effects of that failure by allowing the acute odor and health problems faced by the community to persist for more than one month, to say nothing about the indefinite time it will persist into the future,” state the court documents. “No community should have to endure what the residents of Porter Ranch have suffered from the gas company’s continued failure to stop that leak,” Feuer stated.

SoCalGas insists there will be no long-term health effects resulting from the persistent leak; but as Brockovich pointed out, “no one really knows the potential long-term side effects of benzene and radon, the carcinogens that are commonly found in natural gas.” In an email to the Los Angeles Daily News, SoCalGas stated they were “providing air filters for people’s homes” and “have established a claims process for those who feel they may have suffered harm or injury. And our top priority remains stopping this leak as quickly and safely as possible.

“While the odor added to the leaking gas can cause symptoms for some, the gas is not toxic and county health officials have said the leak does not pose a long-term health risk.”

But what’s making this massive leak so difficult to stop pertains to the storage ‘container,’ itself. “We have the largest natural gas storage system in the world,” boasts Chris McGill, vice president of the American Gas Association. In the United States, old underground oil fields are often put to use as storage vessels for natural gas — because, hey, that geology worked just fine to hold oil for millions of years, so why not natural gas?

In fact, there are some 300 such depleted subterranean oil fields being employed this way around the United States. Aliso Canyon, a natural gas storage site since the 1970s, has one of the largest capacities: 86 billion cubic feet. During the summer, gas earmarked for winter heating is pumped into these underground cavities by SoCalGas — and the process is reversed with the turn of the seasons. However, this year, workers encountered what quickly became evident was anything but a typical hiccup. As Wired reported:

“On October 23, workers noticed the leak at a 40-year-old well in Aliso Canyon. Small leaks are routine, says Bohlen, and SoCalGas did what it routinely does: put fluid down the well to stop the leak and tinker with the well head. It didn’t work. The company tried it five more times, and the gas kept leaking. At this point, it was clear the leak was far from routine, and the problem was deeper underground.”

Beginning December 4th, SoCalGas crews began drilling a relief well to intercept the fissured pipe. Cement will then be poured into both to seal the wells permanently. Of course, for this to work, crews must locate that original pipe, which is a mere seven inches in diameter, thousands of feet underground — without accidentally creating any sparks, whatsoever. Work near the leak site, therefore, has been prohibited after nightfall, when lighting equipment could potentially cause such a spark; though drilling for the relief well is situated far enough away to continue nonstop.

Flaring, or setting a deliberate fire to burn off excess gas, simply isn’t an option. The mammoth scope of this leak means a flare would ultimately complicate matters even further.

“There is no stone being left unturned to get this well closed,” Bohlen stated. “It’s our top priority.”

In the meantime, it will be months without any possibility of halting this disaster-in-motion. Sickened, uprooted, and furious residents can rest assured, though, because even as methane spews nonstop into the air, SoCalGas did have this consolation:

“We are deeply sorry for the frustration.”

 

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Thu, 12/24/2015 - 14:10 | 6960734 Blankenstein
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Good question.

 

http://theantimedia.org/team/claire/

 

face tattoos.....

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 14:29 | 6960802 Hitlery_4_Dictator
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HA HA fuck you California, we shoud sue the shit out of them for destoying the enviroment and watch them go bankrupt. Oh wait, they already are bankrupt...oh well...sue them anyway.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 20:38 | 6961792 gonetogalt
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The major oil companies that originally drilled these wells and managed the oil/gas fields have created these small stand alone holding companies to take the heat when old rotting infrastructure craps out. avoids smearing the good name of a Standard oil subsidiary. They are throwaways.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 18:43 | 6961500 Rubicon727
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Why Zerohedge? Because they tend to come out with uncomfortable truths.

Meantime, I saw no mention of it today in The Sacramento Bee, or The LA Times.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 19:24 | 6961604 Lorca's Novena
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same here and I live in CA.... 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 19:35 | 6961631 PN7
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Didn't want the Religion of Peace to know about the gas till we could set up a perimeter and get the locals out?   Nah.  That would be raciss.

Fri, 12/25/2015 - 04:33 | 6962498 Yes_Questions
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Xactly.  

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:24 | 6959791 kerfuffled
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What a waste of good gas.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:08 | 6959915 ThanksChump
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"C'mon Jesse. Let's cook."

Fri, 12/25/2015 - 12:30 | 6963028 Estrella
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Natural gas is very common. I read once, in an MIT engineering journal, that there is estimated to be 10,000 years worth (at current consumption rates) of natural gas available. Really, it is very common. A bit hard to store (as seen here) and transport (which is why we liguify it into propane), not as easy to fill vehicles as liquid fuels are (so it is not really a good automotive fuel - can you imagine your Mom trying to fill a car with propane). But, really, natural gas is very plentiful and will be for the remainder of the time we as humans have here on the earth. 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:30 | 6959795 fleur de lis
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Don't worry, after they finish with critical national emergencies like Syria they will get around to little disasters like this in the faraway land of California.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:42 | 6960012 greenskeeper carl
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Yep. Priorities. Kinda like how the billions of dollars spent for all those windbags to talk about global warming in Paris recently might could have actually helped at Fukushima. If all this nonsense was actually about saving the planet, they'd be focusing on that first. But, it's not.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 13:55 | 6960673 Emoolah
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This is no disaster! My house is 3.5 miles due south of the leak and I feel just gre.....................................end transmission.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 19:32 | 6961623 Lorca's Novena
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Mission Hills? Just dig a new grave at the cemetary on San Fernando and get it over with... Between the nuclear leaks at Santa Susana in Chatsworth and now this.... yuuuur fooked.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 15:43 | 6960985 LibertarianMenace
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Wait a minute! The Hexagram is a state of the Union. Isn't it?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:30 | 6959799 NotApplicable
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"Please do not worry."

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:28 | 6960143 A Nanny Moose
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...but be afraid.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:33 | 6959802 GhostOfDiogenes
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We can give trillions for Israel and holy wars in the Middle East.

But we cannot take care of the planet and use it like a whore to fuck and throw away.

This is why I respect any tree hugging idiot over a bible thumping moron any day.

BTW, what does God say in the bible about what happens to 'Christians' who defile his planet?

Revelation 11:18 “The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”

On this Christmas Eve, whilst all the sheeple wrap their worthless stuff for their demon spawn the planet dies and they have the nerve to bleet 'merry xmas'. Fucking xtian scum.

This is why the religion must be destroyed like the Romans destroyed the psychopath Hebrew race of which the Jews have been spawned from.

Burn every bible on earth.
And nuke the ashes to be sure.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:51 | 6959859 Mr. Cynic
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Merry Christmas to you to GhostOfDiogenes

You know God calls us to be good stewards of the earth and the resources he has given us.  Also the Proverbs tell us that a righteous man looks to the welfare of his livestock.

Christians who ignore the stewardship that has been entrusted to them are ignorant and wrong.

On the other hand, atheist China and Buddhist/Hindu India have some of the worst pollution and environmental corruption of all.

So let's have a little intellectual integrity and recognize it for what it is; human folly and greed.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:01 | 6959893 GhostOfDiogenes
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Hey xtian scumbag.

I think you need to take the log out of your own eye.

Haford is the most radioactive site in the US.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26658719

WHIP burns plutonium and you sheeple do nothing

http://energy.gov/em/articles/doe-issues-wipp-radiological-release-phase...

Hundreds of thousands of tons of dangerous waste just sitting around

Radiation in food
http://www.sushilinks.com/radioactive-nuclear-fallout-sushi-japanese-foo...

I could go on all day.

Fuck the Christian death cult and fuck Jesus and the rest of the Juden.

And fuck is whore mother.

I mean honestly....how does God impregnate a woman? With whose dick!?

A bullshit sorry ass lie makes believers into liars.

Fucking scum the whole lot of you.

You are like 'good cops' (you seem to worship so much).

Nonexistent.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:15 | 6959938 VinceFostersGhost
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But we cannot take care of the planet

 

The planet doesn't need you.

 

I can show you a beach house that was built 50 years ago.....it will still be there in another 50 years.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:53 | 6960464 Dr. Spin
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To be Frank Vince, the planet doesn't NEED any of us.  This "be fruitufl" axiom is becoming problematic.

Happy Festivus!!!

Spoctor Din

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:35 | 6959985 TheReplacement
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It sure does take a real stretch of the imagination to imagine how a being that could create man and woman from earth might be able to create life inside the woman. 

Why are you so bitter towards christianity that you ignore the point about athiests and hindus and humanity in general?

Are you one of those people who thinks the crusade popes were actually christians?  Anybody can put on a hat and recite a few lines, especially where there is wealth and power involved. 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:25 | 6960127 nosam
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GhostOfDiogenes is a NWO troll here to denigrate Christianity. They have to get the Christians out of the way before they can get their New world order flourishing.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 17:59 | 6961378 TheFutureIsThePast
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They don't need to get Christians out of the way. Christians are weak, docile zombies who will cheer on the NWO because it means "Jesus is coming back, yay!"

Boy are you in for a surprise.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:37 | 6960175 Mr. Cynic
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Here's the point Ghost, you are too proud and full of your own version of wisdom to bother trying to reason with.

If you really want to know the truth, then stop thinking you know what it is and honestly search for it.

Remember, in the grand scheme of things you mean absolutely nothing.  Just one of billions in a Universe of potential quadrillions or more.

Now, as I've been cautioned in the past, don't argue with a fool becuase he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.  So that's about all I have to say.

Merry Christmas!  =)

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:03 | 6960079 GeorgeHayduke
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So the tree hugging Gaians are more favorable in God's eyes than all those materialistic, dollar-chasing, holier-than-thou, loudly self-proclaiming, self-righteous, McMansion-living, SUV-driving, child-breeding, screw the earth if we can make a buck, global warming is a liberal conspiracy, conservative Christian assholes in the Republican party? Who would have guessed?

I love Christianity's ability to be interpreted in any way that the believer needs to interpret it. I never would have thought that absolute truths could be so versatile.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:17 | 6960117 GhostOfDiogenes
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"
I love Christianity's ability to be interpreted in any way that the believer needs to interpret it. I never would have thought that absolute truths could be so versatile."

It's what makes Christians exceptional.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:10 | 6960095 GhostOfDiogenes
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So the US doesn't have a pollution problem?

It doesn't have a military raining Depleted Uranium all over the Middle East?

Typical xtian idiot.

Hey stupid!

Your bible is plagiarized from the Vedas! But you are too stupid to figure it out.

Fuckin xtian coward.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:28 | 6960144 nosam
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"Your bible is plagiarized from the Vedas! But you are too stupid to figure it out."

Bullshit.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:00 | 6959890 Raging Debate
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GhostofDiogenes - Merry Christmas!!!

Burning books? Arent you about 80 years late to that party? I view religion as meta physics, a quest for origination and the continued question of are we alone? With millions of inhabitable planets I dont think so.

Why are you so into Revelations if you hate Christendom? I am just curious. While I have certain beliefs I question them. And while I have a faith of sorts, I still must put that into the camp of theory. Lets say I believe Daniel or John. I still want to know the science of that kind of prediction. The confluence of events and what is said is too much of a statistical improbability to ignore. 

 That doesnt mean I am here to change your mind. I dont go to church anymore. It doesnt jive with the excitement Christ, Apostles or Prophets in the final conclusion of our evolution so it bores me. Besides I can always pray whenever I want and I ask tough questions. 

 None of the bible writers were hung up on the topic of evolution, in fact Moses writing in Genesis supported it with the sequence of species. But a need to feel like burning books? What gives?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:07 | 6959909 GhostOfDiogenes
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"Arent you about 80 years late to that party?"

Wasn't that when ze Nazies burned Jewish propaganda and porn?

So much bad the religion has brought us, that any good is just propaganda.

Wow talk about brainwashed.

As if the us hasn't banned books.

Is it me, or are my fellow xtian Americans the most worthless stupid miserable cunts on the planet in hits millions of years of history?

Fri, 12/25/2015 - 10:18 | 6962782 Tall Tom
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Is it me, or are my fellow xtian Americans the most worthless stupid miserable cunts on the planet in hits millions of years of history?

 

It is you. You asked.

 

And as for using that X???

 

It is the Greek letter CHI.

 

Xmas has been used for the word "Christmas" since the 15th Century. The CHI is an abbreviation for Christ.

 

Of course you are all knowing considering that you consider the Mss. as "plagarized" from the Vedas?

 

Well some parts of Genesis are retold accounts of Creation from the Babylonian Creation Epic, the Elumna Elish...which predates the Vedas...

 

The first scrolls were quilled during the Israelite captivity in Babylon..

 

Beforehand Judaism was an Oral Tradition.

 

It is not known where Jesus was during the ages between Twelve and Thirty Years Old. Some have postulated that he went on an extended journey to learn from the Masters in the East.

 

Some of his philosophy seemed to incorporate some of the Vedic Traditions.

 

But that also may be coincidence as all Religion, even false Religion, are based upon fundamental truths. That must be a characteristic of any institutional religion in order to persuade the proponents that it is true.

 

But you seem very ignorant in your expression.

 

Perhaps there is much more about Christianity than you care to explore.

 

Your choice and, perhaps, your loss if you choose naught.

 

And even though the USA has censored Books before does not justify the abhorrent act. It will not ever succeed.

 

I will hide it digitally and encrypt if it ever becomes necessary.

 

Lose your totalitarianism. Fundamental personal Liberties and Freedoms are paramount.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:04 | 6959899 mc225
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i'll bet you're the life of the party...

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:07 | 6959931 GhostOfDiogenes
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"
i'll bet you're the life of the party...

People constantly tell me this. Is life a party to you?

Were humans put here to overbreed, not take care of their kids or the planet or the economy, and then blame it on them for not being fun and cool about getting raped without any lube except their kids own tears?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:27 | 6959962 drunkfish
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Have faith in the great Sky Fairy heritic, science is the myth.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:47 | 6960032 tarsubil
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I don't get this. You hate Christians for not following their Bible and your solution is to burn Bibles. That doesn't make any sense.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:06 | 6960084 GhostOfDiogenes
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I don't get this. You hate Christians for not following their Bible and your solution is to burn Bibles. That doesn't make any sense.

You have that ass backwards.

Christians worship the creator, safely plucking harps or something in his cozy happy warm heaven, instead of taking care of the planet for their progeny.

This is the only line I can find in the bible babble that actually says anything about caring about the earth, but by looking at xtians track record of cleaning up the planet go figure.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:50 | 6960037 rejected
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Another derailed comment thread. sigh...

And I suppose all you that have put religion behind you do not take Christmas Day off. lol....

Fri, 12/25/2015 - 14:32 | 6960501 Dr. Spin
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Happy Festivus!!!

;-)

EDIT:  1412251231.  Looks like the X-MAS crowd is dancing on the down button.  Happy Festivus you THUMPERS!!!

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 16:27 | 6961113 Farqued Up
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Choosing the lesser of two evils is still evil.

The Christians even have a fight song, "Onward Christian Soldiers", won't be long until they have an "Ode to the Mythical Choctawhatchee Beach Mouse" or some tear jerking song to the overpopulated Spotted Owl.

Both groups should be assaulted with the full force of RICO, they are the two biggest conspiracies in the world.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 18:36 | 6961484 MEFOBILLS
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From Ghost,

This is why the religion must be destroyed like the Romans destroyed the psychopath Hebrew race of which the Jews have been spawned from.

Burn every bible on earth.

And nuke the ashes to be sure

 

With all due respect Ghost, what you propose completely misses the point and is raving nonsense.

It is the payment of ever increasing debts that cause humans to rape the earth.

Externalities, like pollution are ignored and not priced in to the cost of goods and services.  This is yet another function of false economics.

Tell me... what the hell has this money type system have to do with formal religion?

It is a matter of fact, that Christendom used to consider usury as murderous sin.

See the book, The Sin that was and now is not.

http://www.amazon.com/Usury-Christendom-The-Mortal-that/dp/0970378491

The GOD you are raging against is Moloch.  It is the God of Money.  Money is an unconditional demand to bearer, and it carries power.

Read, Money the 12'th and final religion:

Here is a utube for easy viewing for those that don't like to read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eogPFfr2j70

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:33 | 6959807 Motorhead
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Gee, it couldn't happen to a nicer state.  And if the stories of the Fukushima radiation washing ashore on the California coast are true, then things might just be really fucked up for them.

I'm not sure whom I'd prefer, Syrian refugees or California refugees...tough call.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:38 | 6959823 GhostOfDiogenes
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So let me get this straight, you dipshit con artist scum fucking pig.

You would rather all life in California be exterminated because you hate half the popular there that is Liberal.

Did you know that California has more diversity of wildlife than any other state in the union?

Not to mention you want to kill people to save face.

Are you a christian?

It is a religion of peace. The constant proof is online.(/s)

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:39 | 6959827 Motorhead
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Oh, shut the fuck up, clown pants.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:46 | 6959848 GhostOfDiogenes
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Hahahaha! Yeah right scum!

http://youtu.be/-Oy2xNsR1Mw

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:59 | 6960485 Motorhead
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Nice goose egg you got there, champ.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:02 | 6959896 petolo
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Hey Diogenes,

Isn't it time to change your grocery bag? I propose a Scum one would suit you.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:21 | 6959950 GhostOfDiogenes
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When you get your own head out of your ass let me know.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 13:39 | 6960621 xavi1951
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100% flaming progressive retard!  Nobody can have a conversation with you because you can't see past your own nose.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:45 | 6960025 rejected
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Relax DG,,,  I doubt this gas leak will blow the entire state up.  I'd worry more about those "green and clean" nuke power plants tree huggers love if I were you.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:45 | 6959845 imaginalis
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Okay Billy Bob.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:34 | 6959808 pocomotion
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I Call BULL SHIT!  Two large cones with best - man-made metals to slow flow then burn off the NG.  Work on new technologies to cap the sucker.  after 1 year, the pressure goes down 37% anyway...

 

Poco say so!

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:53 | 6959864 Shad_ow
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Now you're thinking.  They really think we are this dumb.

"Never let a crises go to waste."  What's next in their bag of tricks?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:59 | 6959887 blindfaith
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Can anyone understand what he is trying to say?  No, didn't think so.

 

The pipe is 7 inches in diameter, then feed a 4 inch pipe donw and pump cement at high pressure to the bottom.  Gas is not the same as oil flowing.  Whay is that so hard, they pump cement up 10, 20 stories to build buildings.  Haliburton makes the cement to seal this sucker, they made it for BP and that well was just as deep in terms of pressure.

This is a 'storage well" not a natural well?   Just like coal....poor government inspections, big money, political favors.....and tax payers will pick up the bill in the end, just watch and see.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:55 | 6960057 Urban Roman
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When you have a wild well like this, you can't put anything down the wellbore against the flow. It will just come flying back out and smack you in the face. Remember how the 'junk shot' worked out?

They have to drill a releif well, and stop it at the bottom where the pressures are a little more equalized.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:34 | 6959982 ThanksChump
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If this is like most storage facilities, the pressures involved are simply too high to contain anywhere near the surface.

 

Problem solving 101: 7-inch diameter hole, 1200-4800 PSI pressure. If you cap it anywhere near the surface, the bore itself will rupture, and the seal plus the upper bore casement will launch into low orbit like a gigantic Diet Coke bottle with a Mentos tossed into it.

Spectacular, sure, but not helpful, even if the YouTube hits on the video of "Pocomotion's Ultimate Spud Gun" did set a record.

Experiment: take a MacDonald's milkshake straw and bury it in dirt so one end is just poking out of the ground. Wet the dirt and wait for it to dry out.

Now, light a Black Cat firecracker and drop it in the straw. Watch. The expanding gas will shoot out of the straw.

Try this again, but after dropping the firecracker in the straw, push a plastic bottle cap down over the top of the straw and watch.

Now, imagine the firecracker was constantly exploding the whole time you were playing around with the bottle cap.

What they plan to do will work if they can find the bottom of the original bore with the second well.

It's a fascinating engineering problem.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:36 | 6959990 J Jason Djfmam
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Can't they just nuke it?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:41 | 6960190 Beowulf55
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what.........from low earth orbit?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q

 

 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:47 | 6960031 GhostOfDiogenes
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That seems to be the best conclusion of the situation I will see here.

It might take money and technology to fix it so they won't bother.

But they will let in illegals and give big tax breaks to MIC in California.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:24 | 6960343 Likstane
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Wouldn't that be something if God is planning on making you a believer ?
Paul hated Christians, but God made him a believer, and Paul became one of Gods greatest tools. From another perspective, maybe God has you scheduled for eternal torment for refusing to submit to Him. The good is that eventually on a long enough timeline we all get to find out

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:48 | 6960034 Urban Roman
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It will work, it'll just take a while to drill the releif well. Only way to stop a thing like this.

The DWH well was an interesting learning experience for me. Amazingly, they can actually find the casing of the wild well through solid rock thousands of feet down. And at the bottom of a mile of water, if necessary.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 16:37 | 6961142 Farqued Up
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Red Adair could have stopped it with a few hundred pounds of dynamite, a D-10 Cat with a horizontal derrick on the front of the blade and some brass non-sparking wrenches.

Drama Queens. 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 21:58 | 6961972 Urban Roman
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The wells Red Adair stopped were a piece-a-cake by today's standards. Adair never drilled a relief well through three miles of rock to get to the bottom of a wellbore.

If they were to explode/bulldoze this well, it would simply continue to spew until it runs out of gas. Through the rubble. On fire or not.

But Adair did pioneer some things, like blowing out the candle with dynamite. And putting a christmas tree on a wild wellhead.

This well is unfortunately past the christmas tree stage. Looks like the wellhead is broken off and maybe the top length of casing blown out.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:35 | 6959811 Pasadena Phil
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Hey Zero Hedge, curb your enthusiasm. Whether this leak is as bad as is being reported remains to be seen. But your reporting is based on commentary and claims from the professional enviro-grievance industry.

I have friends who live in the Porter Ranch area and they report that the "town meetings" are organized by people like Robert F Kennedy Jr, Erin Brockovich and an army of parasitic tailgate lawyers determined  to get people to sign on to the inevitable class action suits. That CA authorities are also piling on is meaningless. They are all determined to use this as another opportunity to impose their global warming agenda. Stop feeding the insanity!

Although I value Zero Hedge as a primary source of top notch and timely information, you guys are certifiably nuts when it comes to reporting on anything related to energy. Leave this one alone until we get better information. For now, the usual parasites have control of the narrative.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 16:26 | 6961104 Max Cynical
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They're relocating 3,500+ families.

They also established a TFR (Temporary Flight Restriction) 2K feet and below over the area so that a) an overflying aircraft won't set off a nuclear sized explosion and b) in case this does blow, the nuclear sized explosion won't take out any overflying aircraft.

Have you ever seen this type of response to a typical gas leak? This is a big fucking deal and it's been covered up for a couple of months. Only local media has been covering the story...including most prominently John and Ken from KFI AM 640.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 16:31 | 6961121 Max Cynical
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Let me just guess how all of this will play out...

So Cal Gas/Sempra will be fined billions of dollars...the cost of which will be borne by its customers in the form of permanently higher monthly bills.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 19:57 | 6961684 Freddie
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These incredibly EVIL shits in Californicate.   No one says dick about Fukishima because they cannot skim millions and billions off of that.  This is the biggest worry for California and the whole f**king world.

The news media now lies that the US Govt will deport Central Americans.  What a lie.  the borders are wide open.  Did that shit Paul Ryan make that part of his sellout to get the lying media to say some people may be deported?  F**king traitorous liars.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:43 | 6959813 Monetas
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That doesn't look like .... a colorless, odorless gas .... that likes to run down hill .... and pool in low lying areas ?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:03 | 6959895 DeadFred
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Methane is lighter than air so will rise and then disperse. Propane, on the other hand, will act as you describe.

 

If they're worried about the greenhouse gases they can wait for a windy day to minimize the explosive zone then ignite it. But that would make a continuous furnace so hot that it would be hard to work in the area. A good lightning strike might do it as well but the chances of lightning in the area aren't high, being in California and all.

 

I wonder how many of these things there will be after the Great Quake of '16?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:05 | 6959902 SixIsNinE
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yeah Monetas - you describe something more like Hydrogen Sulfide - deadly stuff.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:52 | 6960045 tmosley
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The video is in IR. The "black" that you are seeing is a temperature gradient. Also, the smelly stuff was already added to this gas, as it is a storage well.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:36 | 6960132 Urban Roman
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The black stuff is methane. You can't easily see a temperature gradient in plain air, as it is transparent to thermal IR.

Methane is opaque at this wavelength. Though I suppose it could look white, if it were hotter .. or on fire. This methane is cold because it was recently decompressed.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:17 | 6959817 Anopheles
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The entire article is a bunch of hysterical bullshit. 

It's easy to see that many of the quotes (Erin Brokovich) know nothing about what they are talking about.  There isn't always a "pipe"  down to 8,000 feet.   It's just a hole.  Casings sometimes only extend down several hundred feet, past groundwater and porous formations or to solid rock and cemented in place.  If the entire well is cased, and they often are with production casing, it will be cased in different diameters, getting smaller and smaller.  But it depends entirely on the rock.   Cementing is carried out by forcing cement down the casing and it is then forced back up around the outside of the casing(s).   There are lots of ways a hole can be drilled and constructed. 

More BS about all the effects.  Sounds like leaches circling and spouting nonsense.   

This gas leak is peanuts compared to methane escaping from the ocean and from melting permafrost, and not the catastrophic, doomsday scenario being predicted.  

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 14:02 | 6960701 Blankenstein
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Look at the source - Antimedia.org

 

And the author is a SJW, complete with face tattoos 

 

http://theantimedia.org/team/claire/

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:37 | 6959820 ThrowAwayYourTV
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Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:40 | 6959821 MFL8240
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How is it that all the mass killings, drought, gas leaks, offshore disasters happen in areas where you have liberal state governments  ( New York, New Orleans, California, Massachusetts, Oregon et al.) ?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:39 | 6959825 Bullionaire
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Tylers - please remove the derogatory term "infamous" used to describe Erin Brockovich. She is, in fact, legendary.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:42 | 6959835 Anopheles
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Yeah, she's a  legendary bullshit artist. 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:44 | 6959842 GhostOfDiogenes
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Takes one to know one?

Or a classic form of projection?

I will go with number 2, chuck.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:53 | 6960052 tmosley
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Movies are reality, goyim.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:49 | 6959855 Rockfish
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Stup

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:08 | 6960285 Calmyourself
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She's a legendary drunk..  Publlicity seeking airhead grievance monger

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:45 | 6959846 MasterControl
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Meet the Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Raising Money for Hillary Clinton

motherjones.com/environment/2015/07/hillary-clinton-bundlers-fossil-fuel-lobbyists

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:48 | 6959852 koan
Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:48 | 6959853 Monetas
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I wonder if Mark Steyn will talk about this leak .... he's guest hosting on the EIB (Rush) again, Dec 24 .... prolly not .... as it's a little boring .... but he will undoubtedly talk about Hillary's "leak" ?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:49 | 6959856 MilwaukeeMark
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Is this really escaping methane gas ... or is it really coming from the large influx of illegals and the increase in bean consumption?

Just axting?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:34 | 6959983 Motorhead
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Pretty deep tunnel, eh?  (hehe)

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:56 | 6959872 FrankieGoesToHo...
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"Thousands of feet underground — without accidentally creating any sparks, whatsoever. "

Not sure how much O2 is down there, but I would think it would not be a concern.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:57 | 6959873 WTFUD
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Find the source of the leak and shove the broken pipe up Pelosi's cunt. Problem solved. If you want to kill 2 birds with one stone then stick the other end up Harry Reid's ass. I'm a structural engineer and just know these things. Simples!

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:04 | 6959875 falak pema
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America's permafrost melt type methane leak from sunny Cali !

Premonitary signal of Methane farts around the world!

What will Japan say when they hear that Cali is now trying to match Fuku in terms of polluting the planet?

Oh those GW cultists and their brain farts! ....

Some karma for men who don't believe the Gods are getting mad.

Maybe if the GOPs stalwarts Donald and Terminator went and jointly "schlonged" the dirty c***'s vent hole we could sleep safely !

Never let an opportunity go to schlong a dirty vent hole that leaks when it should be talking "sweet and straight" to "we the people".

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 09:58 | 6959879 IndianaJohn
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Call Russia, they might have some ideas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iB9QYaSVEo

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:06 | 6959904 Last of the Mid...
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What are the odds you won't get some sort of static discharge or lightning bolt to light that fucker off in 2 or 3 months of spewing gas? I bet the green earth, pay me money for carbon credits, don't say a word about Fukushima lying fucks don't say a word about who is responsible. It will all be political press release for more and bigger government.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:08 | 6959914 Lostinfortwalton
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Methane is just natural gas before the moisture has been removed and shipped through pipelines to heat most of our houses. The people beating their agenda over this are the same ones who think CO2 and water vapor, the products of complete combustion, are "toxic". 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:09 | 6959918 Cult of Criminality
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So how many global governance carbon credits do they have left, so

they can continue to cause climate change ?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:14 | 6959935 Land Snark
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I agree with a prior comment - cap and flare. I call bullshit on this. "72 times more impactful in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide." There's your evidence. CO2 in benign so...let's do the math - 72 x 0 = ....  false flag.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:22 | 6959954 NoWayJose
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There's been a disturbance in the Force - as if millions of cows suddenly farted!

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:22 | 6959955 rejected
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More GW ammunition. Just fix it already! 

Probably didn't set a down hole valve which are not required on land like they are over water (or at least so it used to be) because of the expense. Saving that precious fiat. That's what happened at Fukushima and just about every other "disaster" of the like. Corporations do little (no) maintenance unless it's an absolute must and even then they'll leave their damage for someone else to clean up,,, usually us, taxpayers.

Then the lawsuits begin,,, americans are the absolute best when it comes to suing each other... More of that fiat to satisfy the palette.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:28 | 6959967 J Jason Djfmam
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This is California.

They can plug the hole with that perfect sphere Indiana Jones boulder.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:26 | 6959961 _ConanTheLibert...
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In the United States, old underground oil fields are often put to use as storage vessels for natural gas — because, hey, that geology worked just fine to hold oil for millions of years, so why not natural gas?


Because NG (gas) is not the same as oil (liquid), you fuckers?!!

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:27 | 6959963 Lostinfortwalton
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Methane (natural gas) is a non-toxic gas that breaks down into carbon dioxide and water vapor, two more non-toxic gases, in the presence of sunlight. I may not be able to go on.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:29 | 6959972 J Jason Djfmam
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If Cali had to pay carbon taxes on all of this, they would have fixed the leak long ago.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:34 | 6959980 GhostOfDiogenes
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Nontoxic?

More lies.

Methane on Hazardous materials placards is listed as a number 2

2 Intense or continued but not chronic exposure could cause temporary incapacitation or possible residual injury (e.g. diethyl ether, ammonium phosphate)

So you are another liar on ZH.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:35 | 6960315 Absalon
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Methane can be dangerous without being "toxic".  I expect that some of the trace materials in the gas are pretty nasty.

 

The biggest short term risk from this field is probably that the leak will catch fire.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:37 | 6960396 Lostinfortwalton
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It burns, that is why you use it to heat your house. It is not an acid, an ester, an aldehyde, keytone, or an alcohol, some of which can be toxic. Methane (CH4) is not toxic.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:34 | 6959979 All is chosen
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Radiated - 'Gassed'. How well is the quake forecasting progressing?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:57 | 6960480 Motorhead
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About as well as "peak oil" and "gold to $10,000".

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:35 | 6959984 Oboneterm
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Take all the dumbacrat politicians in Sacramento...starting with governor moonbeam, shove them down that well shaft, have them all open their mouths at once and watch their collective hot air extinguish the leak in no time at all.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:40 | 6960003 GhostOfDiogenes
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Brown would have been a Better president at fucking up less than bubba and his lesbian reptile wife.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:35 | 6959986 all-priced-in
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Are they sure it is a gas leak?

 

Someone go light a match and see if it burns.

 

 

 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:37 | 6959994 steelrules
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Another Halliburton cement job?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:38 | 6959996 Vin
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Hmm, I find it interesting that under Obola's watch there was a catastrophe in the Gulf, the rivers of Cal. and now this methane well.  Sabotage by the EPA traitors?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:39 | 6959998 smacker
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Can't they just find the hole and stuff Hillary Clinton down it?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:39 | 6960001 Wow72
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Seems like they are trying to accelerate the demise of current environmental conditions? A joint effort along with Fukushima? Destroy the earth and make it look like an accident?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:53 | 6960051 GhostOfDiogenes
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Nope.

You are just becoming awake to it.

The destruction of the last 200 years by humanity has irreparably damaged the earth.

It is increasing as resources diminish.

Is war an accident?

Fracking?

It is intentional. And the population goes along with it because they believe in nonsense.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:08 | 6960281 Savvy
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Let me recommend to you this vid (language warning, it's Carlin ffs)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0aFPXr4n4

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:37 | 6960401 GhostOfDiogenes
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I don't agree with carlin on all that. Actually I think he is full of shit.
I also didn't agree with his constant pandering to women and liberals.

Carlin was the dark cynical dipshit atheist meme of the USA come out of the wood work.

You can tell he abused cocain but never got rid of the spirit of cocain, which is one of endless greed and insane egotism at its worst.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:41 | 6960009 XitSam
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The State of California has determined the State of California is a danger to the health and safety of human beings.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:53 | 6960053 J Jason Djfmam
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This is clearly in conflict with prop. 65 guidlines.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:48 | 6960018 SMC
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Once again, Obummer's USSA displays EPIC incompetence in dealing with real world problems.

Once a leader in science, engineering and technology; now rapidly sliding further into a 4th world pile of “Politically Correct” manure.  

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:50 | 6960041 GhostOfDiogenes
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"
Once again, Obummer's USSA displays EPIC incompetence"

Incompetence is what the USA excels at. It's what makes us exceptional.

If you think about it, only incompetent people think they are exceptional.

The USA is a dead stick.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:54 | 6960223 IridiumRebel
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Well we have the drooling occidental fools of Ossified Australia, Urinated Europe and any other Sovereign dipshits to follow our lead.

There is a whole host of Western Stupidity. Don't just limit it to us. We have followers! I'm sure your "leaders' are collecting orders with paychecks via graft to enrich themselves while we suffer just like 'Murica.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:46 | 6960028 S Spade
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gee whiz, you mean your PROVIDERS are occasionally subject to accidents and/or geological shifts, for all the convenience in your lives made possible by your PROVIDERS, you would sarcrifice your cushy lifes, cause exploration and production involve risk?

PS: the CO2 hoax is so rediculous it's laughable

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:49 | 6960035 GhostOfDiogenes
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So the "providers" of this nation that creates and produces almost nothing but death and mayhem makes methane out of their asses?

Cool story.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:41 | 6960416 2bit Hoarder
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unless you are amish and snuck off to the cyber cafe to briefly make an ass out of yourself ... shut the fuck up you hypocrite. 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:50 | 6960040 DownWithYogaPants
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Niggerian please!  

This is no disaster.  There is no man made globull warming.  Only globull warming scam.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:52 | 6960047 Reichstag Fire Dept.
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That's what we call in the Nat. Gas business, a blowout. I didn't see that word mention once in the article  (I'll read it again) but if I don't see that word then whomever supplied the technical info to the author is being disingenuous with the reporting. It's an uncontrolled release of gas to the surface, in other words, a blowout. 

I would suspect a bad cement job on the Surface Casing, Secondary Casing AND Primary Casing if it's a 3 stage casing arrangement. Sometimes only the first two are employed. 

There are a range of options. Here in the Canadian oilpatch we would probably begin with cement off the Well. If that was unsuccessful, there is a range of Well saving trickery that can be employed, I would say a relief Well is a last resort.

If they have skipped a bunch of steps, that is your best indicator of a lot of fuckery going on here! There are procedures! 

Ordinarily you would put gas to flare but this gas is likely coming to the surface between the Surface Casing and good old Mother Earth...can't just shut that Well in and re compute.

Too bad the Canadian oilpatch is bankrupt and laid off, these lads would know what to do, we deal with this kinda bullshit all the time! Makes me wonder how much oilfield sabotage we'll see as guys try to keep themselves employed? 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:55 | 6960064 GhostOfDiogenes
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Who the fuck cares about oil industry jargon?

You fucks made this disaster happen and you won't fix it.

Just like nuclear and coal and shitty batteries and renewables controlled by your friends, you think your mind is God.

Stop spouting nonsense and fix the damage you have done to the planet you stupid fucks!

Oh, that won't happen. Never mind.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:39 | 6960406 2bit Hoarder
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says the shittard who probably just filled up his car on the way to the grocery store to pick up food that he will take home to cook and eat with his family.  not a single fucking one of those actions would have been possible without us "fucks" busting our asses to provide cheap, clean energy to stupid fucks like you who think that things just work by fucking magic.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 13:14 | 6960522 FredFlintstone
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Maybe he lives off-grid and has a hand-crank gen set to power his laptop and internet connection? Or maybe he is just a dipshit?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 13:44 | 6960641 DownWithYogaPants
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I think dipshit is certain.  Clueless greentards have only one skillset.  COMPLAINING

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 15:22 | 6960930 GhostOfDiogenes
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The oil/nookular/coal industry's are fossil cartels and we have the technology now that we don't need Dino goo.

So the real morons are you! Pushing burning carbon water so you can act like you are some sort of savior like a modern Jesus.

Fuck you I am forced to buy your Dino goo!

So that makes you the moron.

Sorry.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 17:27 | 6961292 2bit Hoarder
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Dino goo?  you are this opinionated yet don't even know where oil comes from?

 

just so you are not as big of an idiot as you were when you woke up this morning ...

 

Oil comes from oceanic sediment, primarily plant based, that continued to be buried deeper and deeper over time, heated under pressure by the earth's inner heat to cook into what we call oil.  But you go on believing olive oil is from a dinosaur named olivia .. idiot.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:54 | 6960058 tnquake
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In related news, I heard the well was name "The Jamie Dimon, Save the Whale" well!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/expd/8137808173

 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:54 | 6960061 Free_Spirit
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Who are the US government going to sue this time  ?  they need a foreign company involved somewhere which can be blamed and sued,  so haliburton and Transocean can walk away from their mess. 

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 10:57 | 6960068 GhostOfDiogenes
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So BP was not to blame?

Are you kidding me or did your mom have Down syndrome?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 13:46 | 6960644 DownWithYogaPants
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It is only a mess if you believe in man miade globull warming.  But then you are a tard so your opinion does not count.  You have to be seriously stupid to believe in globull warming.  

Many of the researchers only support it because their check is signed by the government and Big Warming.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:06 | 6960081 robobbob
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NOW

is it true that mr liberal Gov Jerry Brown"s sister and ex- Goldmanite Kathleen Brown sits on the board of Sempra?

and that Sempra was given excessive consideration and leeway when this this disaster was discovered?

and that there were efforts to keep this quiet so as to not to tarnish his enviro cred in the wake of his appearance at the global enviro orgy fest in paris??

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:12 | 6960102 GhostOfDiogenes
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Goldman Sachs isn't conservative?

Is wall street 100% liberal or is greed good and are they just kissing cousins?

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:22 | 6960122 IridiumRebel
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greed fucks all asses

It's indiscriminate like disease

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 13:47 | 6960648 DownWithYogaPants
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Goldman is more in bed with democrats than republicans but not so much more that they can feign superiority

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:11 | 6960101 silverer
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I'm puzzled why gov isn't jumping in to collect its multi-billion dollar fines like they did in the gulf?  It's always a bullshit story with how these things spin out.  It all depends on the amount of campaign contributions, and if the well owners are personally liked in the beltway.  The environment always suffers from these types of mistakes, and the fines collected just get frittered away elsewhere, never to be returned to the public in any useful way.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:32 | 6960155 GhostOfDiogenes
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What makes you think BP didn't control the situation?

They have more lobbyist than many others in DeeCee.

They intentionally did this to screw over the public and get attention away from non domestic bullshit.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:12 | 6960104 Able Ape
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This is nothing, a walk in the park, WAIT until a solar flare takes out our power grid and nuclear plants are popping like microwaved popcorn.....Has anyone planned for THAT, in any shape, manner or form?....

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:28 | 6960138 GhostOfDiogenes
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Bullish

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:14 | 6960109 J J Pettigrew
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California should be fined.....hefty fine on the state because turn about is fair play.

And what of all the pollution from all those California wild fires...??  More fines for the righteous.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:21 | 6960121 yellowsub
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This is definitely not a place to see if lighting a match will cover up your shit stank.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 11:32 | 6960156 Dickweed Wang
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So here's the plan . . . drill down a mile and a half to intercept a 12" diameter pipe with another 12" diameter pipe and then pump a bunch of shit into the existing pipe to plug it up.

Ever heard of the saying "finding a needle in a haystack"??  This sounds like trying to find a needle in solid rock 7,500 feet underground.  Good luck with that fellas . . . . .

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:24 | 6960341 2bit Hoarder
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the polite version:

it is not as hard as it sounds.  we do the same thing with subsea oil wells that are no longer profitiable, but with the added complexity of 10,000 feet of water on top.  Although the company i currently work for does not do that specifically, I am well enough familiar with the process to say that it is not anything extrordinary or unproven.

 

the rude version:

i don't understand how cell phones work ... pretty sure they still do though.

Thu, 12/24/2015 - 12:51 | 6960454 Dickweed Wang
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I am an engineer and have done quite a bit of research on what they are trying to attempt.  While you may know the details much better than I ever will I still think you are down-playing the difficulty in what they are proposing.  You are also comparing the proposed approach with what you are familiar with (using this technique on abandoned wells that are no longer profitable) as opposed to using the approach on an ACTIVE storage site that is emitting 50 TONS of gas per hour under extremely high pressure. 

In short, your confidence in the proposed approach appears to be based on a completely different scenario than exists in California.  I am very interested in this technology so if you could explain how what you are familiar with in the Gulf will still work in the conditions they have in CA that would be great . . . 

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