Among women who became pregnant after the disaster, the level of premature births was about 50% higher than expected.
Pregnant women who lived near the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility during and after its 2015 blowout had a higher chance of premature births and low-weight newborns compared to women from other communities, according to the findings of UCLA researchers studying the effects of the massive gas leak on nearby residents’ health.
The gas leaked from a well in a vast underground storage facility owned by SoCalGas. A representative of the gas company wrote in an email that “the Health Research Study has not reached any final conclusions. Any further comment at this stage would be premature because the study’s methods, analysis and results are preliminary, subject to change and have not been peer-reviewed, according to the researchers.
These discoveries were among several findings that researchers shared with the public during their presentation on the Aliso Canyon Disaster Health Research study, which is looking into the short-term and long-term effects of the gas leak on the health of residents who live near the facility.have not yet been peer-reviewed and are not final. The 2015 leak, which spewed gas for four months, released nearly 100,000 metric tons of methane, making it the largest methane gas release in U.S. history.
“This is heart-wrenching, that women who were pregnant at the time and even though they were full-term, they still had underweight babies,” she said. “This is something that everyone in the community should know about.” During that period, there were about 14,000 births in the 6-mile radius area around the Aliso Canyon facility, researchers said. That area includes communities in Granada Hills, Northridge, Porter Ranch and Chatsworth. Those births were compared to infants born in areas not near the facility.
But some residents in impacted areas such as Porter Ranch, which is located about a mile away, hope to see UCLA dig deeper into the health impacts in their communities.
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