California regulators approved an increase in storage capacity at the Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage facility near Porter Ranch, site of the largest gas leak in U.S. history.
California regulators on Thursday approved a controversial proposal to greatly increase storage capacity at the site of the nation's largest known methane leak, which sickened thousands of families and forced them from their Los Angeles homes in 2015.
& Water Watch said in a statement. "Aliso Canyon poses a significant danger to the health and safety of our communities and is entirely unnecessary to maintain California's energy reliability."More Videos She vowed that the commission will work at the same time toward weaning the region off the facility while the state transitions to cleaner energy.
Thousands of residents were forced to move out of their homes to escape a sulfurous stench and maladies including headaches, nausea and nose bleeds. SoCalGas and its parent company, Sempra Energy, agreed to pay up to $1.8 billion in settlements to more than 35,000 victims of the leak in 2021. "Given the history of disaster and risks from continued operations at Aliso Canyon, I continue to support closing the facility on an expedited timeline," U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein wrote in a letter to the commission's president this month. "This proposed decision to increase capacity, however, appears to go in the opposition direction."
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