Friday, February 26, 2016

Aliso Canyon Released 97,000 Tons of Methane, Biggest U.S. Leak Ever, Study Says

As SoCal Gas hedges on estimating the size of the disaster, a study it funded says not only can the leak be measured, but gave it a staggering number.
The methane leak in Los Angeles was deemed the largest ever in the U.S., and has heightened calls for action. (Credit: Getty Images) Click to Enlarge.
The leak from Southern California Gas Co.'s Aliso Canyon storage unit totaled 97,100 metric tons of natural gas, making it the largest release of uncombusted methane in U.S. history, according to a peer-reviewed study published Thursday in the journal Science.

 SoCal Gas, however, joined two other California utilities in telling state regulators that there is no established method for estimating methane releases in catastrophic gas-system failures. That filing on Feb. 17 incensed environmental groups including the Environmental Defense Fund and drew a rebuke from one of the Science study’s lead authors.

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