{"id":179,"date":"2016-01-13T17:37:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/?p=179"},"modified":"2016-01-14T15:16:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:16:33","slug":"michigan-has-a-lot-of-underground-natural-gas-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/michigan-has-a-lot-of-underground-natural-gas-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan has a lot of underground natural gas storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the recent catastrophic natural gas leak in California, the state of Michigan has come out and stated concern about its own underground gas infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The gas leak in California &#8212; north of Los Angeles in Aliso Canyon &#8212; has been an ongoing disaster since December, and authorities are now saying that it could take many more months to stop the leak and end the crisis.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inlink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/california-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-due-to-natural-gas-leak\/\" title=\"California Governor declares state of emergency due to natural gas leak\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Aliso_Canyon_gas_leak_site_Dec._14_2015_23389378449-150x150.jpg\" title=\"California Governor declares state of emergency due to natural gas leak\" alt=\"California Governor declares state of emergency due to natural gas leak\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/california-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-due-to-natural-gas-leak\/\" title=\"California Governor declares state of emergency due to natural gas leak\"><h4>California Governor declares state of emergency due to natural gas leak<\/h4><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/california-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-due-to-natural-gas-leak\/\" title=\"California Governor declares state of emergency due to natural gas leak\" class=\"hide375\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p>It turns out that the state of Michigan has more active underground natural gas storage reservoirs similar to the type currently leaking in California <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2016\/01\/michigan_has_most_underground.html\" title=\"than any other U.S. state\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>than any other U.S. state<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And not only does Michigan have <em>a lot<\/em> of underground natural gas wells and lines, but some of the state&#8217;s aging infrastructure is more than 70 years old. The leak in CA is reportedly from infrastructure that is 61 years old.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Michigan has most underground natural gas storage in U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P3lS6WIKvk\">https:\/\/t.co\/P3lS6WIKvk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6kRJ6cEsgF\">pic.twitter.com\/6kRJ6cEsgF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MLive (@MLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLive\/status\/685612099628875776\">January 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Gas leaks bring multiple concerns<\/h2>\n<p>Not only do massive gas leaks like the one in Aliso Canyon &#8212; and the potential leaks like Michigan is attempting guard against &#8212; cause immediate emergency issues like evacuation and illness, but severe leaks can also cause environmental problems that reach a lot farther than the immediate vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say that the current leak in CA is producing the same daily global warming impact is the same <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4180692\/california-methane-gas-leak-environment\/\" title=\"as driving 4.5 million cars\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>as driving 4.5 million cars<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inlink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/natural-gas-leak-in-california-causes-health-environmental-problems\/\" title=\"Natural gas leak in California causes health, environmental problems\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/natural-gas-stove_w6hj74je-150x150.jpg\" title=\"Natural gas leak in California causes health, environmental problems\" alt=\"Natural gas leak in California causes health, environmental problems\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/natural-gas-leak-in-california-causes-health-environmental-problems\/\" title=\"Natural gas leak in California causes health, environmental problems\"><h4>Natural gas leak in California causes health, environmental problems<\/h4><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/natural-gas-leak-in-california-causes-health-environmental-problems\/\" title=\"Natural gas leak in California causes health, environmental problems\" class=\"hide375\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Source &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2016\/01\/michigan_has_most_underground.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">MLive<\/a><\/span><div class=\"pd-photo-att\">Photo Credit: U.S. Energy Information Administration<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the recent catastrophic natural gas leak in California, the state of Michigan has come out and stated concern about its own underground gas infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}