(TRUNEWS) Ms. Patricia Oliver of R. Rex Parris Law Firm said geological data suggests that the Porter Ranch gas leak could contaminate the Los Angeles water table.
Ms. Oliver’s statements were made during a roundtable discussion with Dr. Richard Kang and Rick Wiles of TRUNEWS, as they explained the latest legal and medical updates events surrounding the methane gas leak in Porter Ranch, California.
The gas leak was first announced by the well owners, the Southern California Gas Company (SCGC), in late October 2015, and on January 6th was escalated to a state of emergency by Governor Jerry Brown after numerous residents reported experiencing side effects from inhalation. Ms. Oliver confirmed an estimate, that roughly 83,000 metric tons of methane gas has been released so far into the atmosphere.
The Southern California Gas Company has since stuck by their statement that the leak is ignitable, but was not capable of exploding on its own accord.
The leaking injection well facility, based in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, is located in the mountains 1 mile from the residential areas of Porter Ranch where the injuries have been reported. The injection well was also previously responsible for serving 20 million people in the Los Angeles area, as well accounting for the storage and delivery of 25% of the methane gas in the region.
Ms. Oliver estimated that approximately 30,000 people are directly at rick of experiencing injuries from the leak, which range from nose bleeds, nausea, committing, light headedness, brain fog, Asthmatic symptoms. Dr. Richard Kang concurred with Ms. Oliver’s summary.
Ms. Oliver also said that the SCGC did make attempts to initially fix the leak, but failed, causing the situation to become uncontrollable.
Ms. Oliver stated that over 60 lawsuits are currently active, with her firm, R. Rex Parris Law, heading class action, individual, and mass action cases against the SCGC and the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR).
Ms. Oliver stated that the SCGC and the DOGGR are directly responsible for neglect, trespass, and inverse condemnation, using the analogy that “if you own a dangerous pet, you must take safeguards to protect the community,” to emphasis their guilt.
“You don’t just let your vicious dog run around without a fence, well you also don’t just operate wells that could blow out and have no safety valve,” Ms. Oliver said, reiterating the point that “ they [SCGC] don’t have a subsurface safety valve on this [Porter Ranch] injection well or most the other wells [which the SCGC operates].”
For the full episode check out the Monday, February 1st edition of TRUNEWS.
Patricia Oliver co-leads the special litigation team at R. Rex Parris where she oversees cases involving wage theft, antitrust violations, and water contamination from oil production and waste injection wells. She recently received nationwide media attention for her ground-breaking work in helping Palla Farms and other California farmers in investigating the source of salt water contamination in surrounding aquifers.
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