Anyone live in or near Porter Ranch ?

Lila Belle · ‎01-24-2013

How are you coping ?

Hoping the leak can be contained soon and your lives can get back to normal.

MaggieMack · ‎10-01-2014

What amazes me the most about this story is that the EPA has been so silent.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop

luv-the-Q · ‎05-04-2015

The EPA is as big a joke as the FDA.

Lila Belle · ‎01-24-2013

@MaggieMack wrote:
What amazes me the most about this story is that the EPA has been so silent.

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Are you still in your home or are you living somewhere else ?

MaggieMack · ‎10-01-2014

Oh, sorry @Lila Belle, I didn't mean to imply that I live there, I've just been following it in the news. My comment about the EPA was that they seem to get so over-involved in some inconsequential things, but are nowhere to be found when the human population really needs them.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop

Lucky Charm · ‎03-09-2010

@MaggieMack wrote:
What amazes me the most about this story is that the EPA has been so silent.

Is it a gas company (oil) or the gas company?

Usually the EPA is all over oil companies like white on rice.

If it's a gas company of CA, I'm surprised that (the state of) California isn't on them worse than white on rice.

Either way, I hope you're not in any compromised position, where you are.

onewhiteSparrow · ‎08-05-2011

My information is coming from the rig located on Porter Ranch.

The men and women that work on that rig.

The leak is coming from a storage area underground. Casings (pipes) from all locations send gas to that area until it is needed.

It belongs to Southern Ca. Gas Company. The State of Ca. does not own this company. The gas is used to heat homes and buildings and used for cooking. It is not a oil company.

Because of the GREAT Danger to the well and the men & women working on the new relief well Halliburtion Boots & Coots Services are on stand by. The men and women are drilling a new relief well using slant drilling. They are using heavy mud while they are slant drilling to get to the casing (pipes) in the gas underground.

The slant drilling will drill into the casing located in the natural earth gas storage area.

The heavy mud is heavier than the gas. So it forces the gas deeper down. While they are drilling the heavy mud will travel upward outside the casing forcing the rocks & soil into a screen to collect and to later return back to earth.

Than later cement is pumped down into the location where the gas and heavy mud are located ....which closes off the escaping gas. What they are doing is called Abandoning the well. Shutting it down.

They have to be careful about having a blowout. Reason why Boots & Coots are standing by. Boots & Coots is one of the world's premier well control companies. Veterans of Red Adair Services. The two companies put out about one third of the more than 700 oil well fires set in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi soldiers in the Gulf War.

I wish everyone luck. Wish good health to the workers and to all the families involved.

nun ya · ‎03-09-2010

@MaggieMack wrote:
What amazes me the most about this story is that the EPA has been so silent.

I'm surprised too...And the video was released by environmental groups...nobody really knew how bad it was. Those residents have every right to be po'ed.

onewhiteSparrow · ‎08-05-2011

The environmental groups are all over the place.

Southern Ca. Gas Company is a Utility company. A private company supplying gas which is granted a monopoly by the government and then regulated by the government.

When everything is handled and done the public will pay for all the costs in their gas bill. More money spent the Utility company will make more money.