Jan 19 2016
Porter Ranch Residents Demand Gas Storage Be Shut Down After Disastrous Leak
GUESTS: Matthew Pakucko, resident of Porter Ranch, California, and the President and co-founder of Save Porter Ranch, Alexandra Nagy, Organizer with Food & Water Watch.
On October 23rd of last year, the second largest gas storage facility in the US, located at Porter Ranch, Southern California, began to leak. Massive amounts of methane gas has been escaping, uncontrolled, not too far from KPFK’s studios. The Aliso Canyon storage facility is owned and operated by the Southern California Gas Company, which is a subsidiary of Sempra Energy. Immediately after the leak began, residents began complaining of health problems and thousands have been displaced.
Earlier this year Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency over the leak, which continues unabated. The carbon footprint of the gas leak is considered larger than the Deepwater Horizon spill as Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, about 80-90 times more potent at trapping heat than carbon di-oxide.
Meanwhile residents in and around the Porter Ranch area have begun organizing and speaking out. They are demanding that the gas company shut down the facility altogether.
For more information visit www.saveporterranch.com, www.facebook.com/SavePorterRanch/ and www.foodandwaterwatch.org/state/california.
Petition website: http://bit.ly/shutitalldown.
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