disasters like that, then inspiring action, seeing it, sometimes helps. last week we reported on a giant ongoing pollution disaster, a huge gas leak in california. the san fernando valley in southern california. the leak is coming from a storage facility, a storage well more than 8,000 feet under ground. it went bad in october. it s been leaking natural gas, plus the additive they put in natch gas so you can smell it when it s leaking. people nearby have been getting headaches and nosebleeds and respiratory problems. one town has been evacuated. the city of l.a. is suing the company that owns the well. and it s way not over. the company says they don t know how to stop this leak. they say it may take four months to drill a new well in order to stop the leak in the old one. four months. and in the meantime, the scale of this thing is nuts.
somewhere below where it s leaking, pump a bunch of cement in this fill the well. that s the new plan. the only problem is, if all goes perfectly, that plan will take months, up to four months. and for some residents of porter ranch living with that the rotten egg smell, that means four more months of headaches and nausea and nosebleeds and respiratory problems. and aside from this as a public health disaster, this is also a budding environmental disaster. because the primary component of natural gas is methane, which is a particularly potent green house gas. state air quality regulators estimate the leak is releasing up to 50,000 kilograms of methane every hour, and they say if that well keeps doing that at that rate, then basically this leak will equal 25% of california s daily green house gas emissions. or another way to think of it, this is roughly the same effect
next to the orjal hole and you intercept the leaky pipe somewhere below where it s leaking, pump a bunch of cement in this fill the well. that s the new plan. the only problem is, if all goes perfectly, that plan will take months, up to four months. and for some residents of porter ranch living with that the rotten egg smell, that means four more months of headaches and nausea and nosebleeds and respiratory problems. and aside from this as a public health disaster, this is also a budding environmental disaster. because the primary come poebt of natural gas is methane, which is a particularly potent green house gas. state air quality regulators estimate the leak is releasing up to 50,000 kilograms of methane every hour, and they say if that well keeps doing that at that rate, then basically this leak will e25% of california s daily greenhouse gags emissions. or another way to think of it, this is roughly the same effect as driving 160,000 cars for a year.
somewhere below where it s leaking, pump a bunch of cement in this fill the well. that s the new plan. the only problem is, if all goes perfectly, that plan will take months, up to four months. and for some residents of porter ranch living with that the rotten egg smell, that means four more months of headaches and nausea and nosebleeds and respiratory problems. and aside from this as a public health disaster, this is also a budding environmental disaster. because the primary composition of natural gas is methane, which is a particularly potent green house gas. state air quality regulators estimate the leak is releasing up to 50,000 kilograms of methane every hour, and they say if that well keeps doing that at that rate, then basically this leak will e25% of california s daily greenhouse gags emissions.
you drill a new well, a new hole next to the orjal hole and you intercept the leaky pipe somewhere below where it s leaking, pump a bunch of cement in this fill the well. that s the new plan. the only problem is, if all goes perfectly, that plan will take months, up to four months. and for some residents of porter ranch living with that the rotten egg smell, that means four more months of headaches and nausea and nosebleeds and respiratory problems. and aside from this as a public health disaster, this is also a budding environmental disaster. because the primary come poebt of natural gas is methane, which is a particularly potent green house gas. state air quality regulators estimate the leak is releasing up to 50,000 kilograms of methane every hour, and they say if that well keeps doing that at that rate, then basically this leak will e25% of california s daily greenhouse gags emissions. or another way to think of it,