California Methane Gas Leak

On October 23rd Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility found a leak in one of their wells. This leak is spewing methane gas by the ton everyday into the atmosphere. To this day the leak has allowed 83,511 metric tons of methane gas to escape Governor Jerry Brown has finally called a state of emergency. Since the leak was discovered at least 2300 homes in Los Angeles have been evacuated. After the leak had been releasing this greenhouse gas local residents began to experience symptoms of headaches, rashes and nosebleeds. The gas that has leaked so far is only 2% of the total amount stored - along with the fact that the quantity of methane leaked is equivalent to 1.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide; in retrospect that is the pollution that 330,000 cars emit yearly. This environmental disaster has the potential to be fixed by March, earliest, but that is also 2 more months of methane leakage.