More than two months after methane gas began erupting into the Porter Ranch environment, Governor Jerry Brown finally declared a state of emergency, after the residents began reporting a variety of symptoms from the fumes and gas.
The Gas Company claims that the symptoms are just from odor added to the methane and it is “just temporary, it’s not a problem, it’s not serious”. Scoffing at such a claim, attorney Rex Paris retorts, “These people aren’t stupid. We have children whose noses are bleeding every day, we have people who suffer from chronic headaches [and] are nauseous every, single day. How does that not become a serious issue?”
The only way to avoid sickness, one doctor told the residents, is to get far away. But obviously the gas is not able to be contained to a zip code and it’s reach easily could be beyong the 30 miles to the city of Los Angeles, where almost 18 million people reside as of 2013, making it “the second most populous city in the United States.”
More of the dangers of methane on the next page.
California is fucked up in so many was this should be the last of their worries.
It’s a ploy to get them out force others to live like them
Lindsey LaRue
Don’t take it so personal, they weren’t directing it at you or your son. Eddies it’s not like a magic genie is gonna make their wish come true. When California does fall into the ocean and Arizona bay is formed it will be an act of nature not a magic genie or wishful thinking. Scientists have warned people for years.
Denise Rodriguez Borquez
FYI, there’s nothing added to it until well past the point of the well. And it is not poisonous in any way shape or form. Unless it catches fire or is completely filled up inside a closed area (displacing all oxygen) it doesn’t hurt you at all.
Not true Scott Morris, that 100% of oygen has to be replaced in order to be deadly. Thats ridiculous. A person can become critical when their blood ixygen level falls below 90%.
Agreed, additives arent added at the wells, but if they are smelling cast off from the gas, they are smelling gas as well. It hurts you.
No please don’t leave…stay
Better start considering leaving for Mexico.