U.S. task force to look at massive California natural gas leak

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Fri Apr 1, 2016 4:29pm EDT

U.S. task force to look at massive California natural gas leak

A new U.S. government task force will look into the country's biggest ever accidental release of methane, which occurred over several months in Los Angeles, California, hoping to prevent future leaks of the potent greenhouse gas from storage wells, the Obama administration said on Friday.

The Interagency Task Force on Natural Gas Storage Safety to look at the leak at the Aliso Canyon leak will be chaired by officials from the Department of Energy and the Department of Transportation's pipeline safety office.

A months-long leak at the Aliso Canyon storage field made scores of people ill and forced more the temporary relocation of more than 6,600 households from the northern Los Angeles community of Porter Ranch.

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"The fact that this leak happened in the first place, the length of time that it took to fix, and the disruption that it caused for so many people are very concerning," Lynn Orr, a Department of Energy undersecretary, and Marie Therese Dominguez, the administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, said in a release.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-gas-taskforce-idUSKCN0WY5JU

[rhett o rick]

1. This is what you'll get with a Clinton presidency. She is beholden to the oil industry. nm