Doctors Urge California Residents "Leave Now...While You Can" As Gas Leak Fears Grow
Submitted by Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org,
California Governor Jerry Brown finally declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, concerning the ongoing, currently unstoppable methane gas leak spewing from Aliso Canyon that has created a nightmare for residents of Porter Ranch.
“I will tell you, this goes well beyond Porter Ranch. We’ve had complaints from as far as Chatsworth, Northridge, and Granada Hills,” emphasized Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander during a Porter Ranch town hall meeting on December 28. “Apparently this plume of toxic chemicals and whatever it might be, doesn’t know zip codes […] This is the equivalent of the BP oil spill on land, in a populated community.”
Aliso Canyon sits less than two and a half miles from Porter Ranch and less than 30 miles from the city of Los Angeles — the second most populous city in the United States — whose outlying total statistical area includes nearly 18 million residents, as of 2013.
Brown has been widely criticized for lack of decisive action on the leak, which is erupting from its underground storage area with all the force “of a volcano.” Under Wednesday’s declaration, “all state agencies will utilize state personnel, equipment, and facilities to ensure a continuous and thorough state response to this incident.”
Porter Ranch residents have been evacuating the area for some time, though SoCalGas’ rather maladroit handling of the relocation procedure has been a nightmare — and the cause for a mounting number of lawsuits, including one from the L.A. city attorney’s office.
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer filed a civil lawsuit last month concerning the massive methane leak’s impact on area residents’ health and damage to the environment — which alleged failure by SoCalGas to prevent the leak and further exacerbation of “the effects of that failure by allowing acute odor and health problems faced by the community to persist for more than a month, to say nothing about the indefinite time it will persist into the future.”
Pediatrician Dr. Richard Kang gave an ominous warning during the Porter Ranch meeting, saying, “Unfortunately, the only real way to get away from the symptoms is… you have to relocate — you have to get away from the environment.” Health complaints include severe headaches, nosebleeds, respiratory issues including increasing cases of asthma, and a number of other issues.
SoCalGas, in the meantime, stated they were “providing air filters for people’s homes,” but though “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, as the Los Angeles Daily News reported on December 25, “Los Angeles County health officials said prolonged exposure to trace chemicals, some of which are known carcinogens, can cause long-term health effects.” Nevertheless, they also “cautioned that levels examined so far here are not believed to be associated with long-term health problems.”
“The gas company says, ‘This is just the smell you’re reacting to, it’s just temporary, it’s not a problem, it’s not serious’ — these people aren’t stupid,” said attorney Rex Paris. “How could somebody possibly say that? We have children whose noses are bleeding every day, we have people who suffer from chronic headaches [and] are nauseous every, single day. How does that not become a serious issue? Why are they saying something nobody here believes? […] They’re trying to convince everybody that it’s all in our heads. It’s a trick.”
In fact, as Erin Brockovich pointed out, “no one really knows the long-term side effects of benzene and radon, the carcinogens that are commonly found in natural gas.”
Additionally, area house pets seem particularly vulnerable — possibly acting the part of unwitting canaries — as veterinarian Dr. David Smith described in the town hall meeting. Noting he has seen dozens of sickened animals, Smith said, “I’ve seen dogs, cats, birds, pocket pets… the primary symptoms I’ve seen are gastrointestinal vomiting […]These are not things you should be inhaling.” He added, “We have seen dermatological issues as well, some very unusual bacterial infections in dogs,” including one case in which a dog had such an infection on its face, and “the client developed almost the exact same kind of symptoms soon after that […] their physician thinks it’s related [to exposure from the gas leak] and so I tend to think these correlations are real.”
Though the declaration of emergency states “the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources shall continue its prohibition against Southern California Gas Company injecting any gas into the Aliso Canyon Storage Facility,” it does not make that moratorium dependent on stoppage of the leak; rather, only “until a comprehensive review, utilizing independent experts […] is completed.”
Physician Dr. Brooks Michaels, addressing the town hall meeting, gave the sternest advice to those still in the area surrounding the unprecedented leak:
“If you have a chance to leave, if you’re able to leave… if you have a chance to relocate, do it now. I’m telling you, it’s really critical.”
Understandably, Brown’s state of emergency seems almost too little, too late for many.
You can watch the Porter Ranch town hall meeting here:
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A billion wood stoves running full blast would take a century to equal this kind of ozone depletion.
What's next? Increased tailpipe sniffing for automobiles?
why do liberal men suck cock every day?
Because they don't go to church on Sundays.
why do liberal men suck cock every day?
For the same reason a dog licks its balls . . . because they can.
same reason that most arrests for pedophilia happen to be conservatives-you know- the "Family Values" types
they really excel at getting arrested in airport/park restrooms for playing 'footsie'
Dear California Residents,
No one wants you here (read, out of your dumpster). Please; stay home and fix your own problems.
If you are thinking about leaving, please watch Mad Max (the originals). Think about your Prius. What could happen to it. In the foreign countries you will be travelling through, no one cares about your struggle.
When your state of Communist filth falls into the sea, we hope you take your Universities, your shitty socialist community colleges, your black panther rapist nigger filth, your trash heap of human scum into the abyss.
Take your Jerry Brown Uberalles blue pills and go neo-progressive-nazi-climate-change-full-retard. Out here we don't care. We don't understand you. We don't want you.
Fuck you and die.
California could never be Sparta.
All right, the shootings didn't do it, Brown didn't do it, Kim KardASSian didn't do it, even Minaj didn't do it, but now I'm out of L.A.
(Away on business actually)
I sure hope you all are pronouncing methane correctly. Me- thane. Not meth -ane.
Mutated Mountain Lion With Teeth Growing Off the Top of It's Head, In Idaho, Where They Are Pushing for More Radiation
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2016/01/mutated-mountain-lion-with-teeth.html
What makes this picture of this Idaho Mountain Lion so disgusting is the expected pain and suffering this animal went through before it was "harvested". I suspect this damaged animal had problems in living and getting enough food and was probably prowling around habitated areas.
And even more disgusting? This article was found on the same page as people in Idaho promoting radiation research at Idaho National Lab a 1995 agreement was reached to stop adding radiation to the INL to mitigate contamination of the water aquifer directly below. And this quote from a promoter of "vital spent fuel research". Spent nuclear fuel is the most dirty, most dangerous byproduct of the nuclear energy process. They want more of it. Damn the lions, we need jobs!
Couldn't happen to a better state.
If only more Californians would panic and leave the state. Alas, that ain't even likely in Porter Ranch, much less the rest of the state. No, people will be waiting on what everyone waits for---financial collapse. To be sure, California will collapse in dramatic fashion, but its not likely in the near term.
Agriculture gives Calif an advantage. Exporting top shelf produce and livestock will continue. The cost of living will cause the middle class to flee this state. Tax hikes are coming.
Oddly enough, where I live I've been smelling a natural gas smell that permeates the entire area. It's bad. There is a sewage treatment plant a few miles from here, and perhaps the wind direction is just right. Hmmmm!!!!!
Also, last week, a house in North West Oklahoma City just exploded. It's been classified as a natural gas explosion. Destroyed the house and damaged many neighboring homes. The residents had been complaining of a natural gas smell for quite some time.
There's been lots of small earthquakes out here as well. I heard on the local news today, something like 40 in the last three days. What's funny is residents of Edmond Oklahoma are demanding theilr lawmakers do something about them. Fucking LOL!!!! ! What are they going to do, declare a moratorium on earthquakes? Make them illegal? You just can't make this shit up!!!!