From: Inside Climate News
More than 400 facilities holding huge storehouses of natural gas get little regulatory oversight as their infrastructure ages.
Brian Seligman, protesting at a California Air Quality
Management meeting, echoes the sentiments of many who fear many aging
natural gas storage facilities could produce similar disasters. Credit:
Reuters
Earlier
this week, the massive methane leak spewing from an underground natural
gas storage facility in California’s Aliso Canyon passed a symbolic
milestone: its duration exceeded BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill
in the Gulf of Mexico.
Now, a growing number of environmentalists, engineers and industry
watchdogs say the disaster on the outskirts of Los Angeles could happen
elsewhere. There are more than 400 underground natural gas storage
sites spread across 31 states, and, like Aliso Canyon, decades-old
equipment is deteriorating at many of them.
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