Oil And Gas, Aliso Canyon Gas Leak

“On Oct. 23, 2015, a massive natural gas leak erupted at a storage well near Los Angeles, and it's still unrepaired. ‘It's a mega-leak, one of the biggest ever recorded,' says Timothy O'Conner, EDF's oil and gas director in California. ‘The plume is about 1,000-feet high and several miles long.'…The leak is releasing enormous amounts of methane, a strong greenhouse gas that carries 84 times the warming power of carbon dioxide in the initial decades after it is released. ‘Emitting just a little bit of methane greatly accelerates the rate of climactic change,' says EDF Chief Scientist Steven Hamburg." Aliso Canyon Gas Storage Field is the largest underground methane storage facility in the western United States. The storage facility is located in a mountain near the community of Porter Ranch.