From: Inside Climate News
The Aliso Canyon gas leak is the
latest fossil fuel disaster to elude attempts at a solution, and the
numbers and impacts are piling up.
The Aliso Canyon methane leak is the latest example of an
oil and gas disaster that has highlighted the system's weaknesses.
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The ruptured well in northwest Los Angeles has been spewing methane into the atmosphere for 100 days as of Sunday—and counting.
Well control specialists may not be able to plug the leak until the end of the month, although the rate of emissions has slowed 65 percent
since peaking in late November. How long it’s taking underscores how
difficult it can be to stop fossil fuel-related accidents and leaks, and
has drawn attention to aging infrastructure and lax regulations that
probably played a role in the well’s failure.
The
leak's duration has surpassed the 87 days of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil
spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. The leak from a well at an
underground storage facility owned and operated by Southern California
Gas Co. was discovered Oct. 23. It is the latest in a series of
environmental disasters in recent years caused by the oil and gas
industry, including oil spills in Michigan, Montana, and Arkansas and a
2010 gas pipeline explosion in California. MORE
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