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Utility agrees to faster resident relocation amid gas leak
LOS ANGELES Dec 23 Southern California Gas Co and the Los Angeles City Attorney reached an agreement on Wednesday on a plan for the utility to provide temporary housing for residents living near a massive underground natural gas leak, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Under the agreement reached by the company and city attorneys – and approved by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge – the Gas Co. also agreed to pay for security deemed necessary by police to ensure the protection of the vacated homes. It already has forced the company to relocate thousands of residents who said the stench made them sick.
The leak now accounts for roughly a quarter of the state’s total emissions of methane, the principal component of natural gas and a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. As of Tuesday, the gas company had paid to relocate and house more than 2,000 households.
Southern California has said it will take three to four months to drill a secondary well that will be used to stop the gas leak.
Feuer also wants to request that Gas Co. employees be deposed as early as January 7 to address questions about the leak’s causes, efforts to stop the leak, the date they think it could be fixed, the contents of the gas and other issues.
Public health officials have said the leak is not a threat to public health, but hundreds of residents have complained of nausea, headaches, bloody noses and other maladies.
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The Los Angeles Unified School District says it may sue the utility to recover costs of relocating students and staff; two state agencies have begun investigations to determine the cause of the leak, the utility’s response to the leak, and if any laws were broken.