Flaring has been reported at a facility in the hills above Willow Pass Rd. and Evora Rd. in Concord.
It’s unknown what the name of the facility is, but the fire department is aware of the situation.
Thanks to everyone who sent photos.
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West of gun range on Evora Rd.
Road leading into facility has guard post.
Looked at aerial Pics, looks like pipelines and what might be well heads ?
Tried looking at sign on street view and it won’t show it.
Anyone know company name ?
That whole huge hill is PG&E’s Underground Gas Storage facility. I’ve worked on their compressors in the 90s.
Millions of cubic feet of Natural Gas in those hills!
Climate Crisis !!!
People should be thankful for these flares. They are a safety mechanism. If they didn’t flare pressure would build up and they could explode killing a bunch of people.
Flairs seem to be the thing these days.
Flairs are coming back like the 70s.
That is the PG&E Los Medanos Facility which is a natural gas facility.
We must not be using enough natural gas trying to be good citizens and freezing in our homes to avoid absurd energy bills because government and our utility was not pro-active (or were in a negative way).
An abundance of natural energy? Who wudda thunk it? Sheesh, and PG&E is pushing for rate hikes galore. They treat these flares like it was public enemy #1.
Found this, ‘PG&E Natural Gas Storage Facilities’
Appears there’s 21 wells up there.
https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/rd/mtgs/111616/Larry%20Kennedy%20-%20Risk%20Panel.pdf
OG: Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I was just an Equipment Mechanic in the Diablo area in the late 90’s.
Natural gas flaring is pretty benign.
Anyone remember seeing drill rigs on Willow Pass in late 1960s early 1970s?
Could see their lights for night time operations?
This is why “progressives” want to ban natural gas and gas appliances in homes. We have an abundance of natural gas in the USA meaning we are not dependent on other countries. We export natural gas to 46 countries at present which helps our trade balance. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/imports-and-exports.php
Los Medanos Energy Center is a 678.3MW gas fired power project. It is located in California, the US. According to GlobalData, who tracks and profiles over 170,000 power plants worldwide, the project is currently active. It has been developed in a single phase.Nov 14, 2023
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CALPINE… https://www.calpine.com/los-medanos-energy-center …
It’s been a strangely “secret” tucked away place… When did it “appear” — did anyone see all that construction and noise and all the traffic? Thanks Bay Point… great tax revenue… County all hush-hush?
I thought it was somebody’s birthday.
Maybe the site of a future Olympics.
Will the Bay Area Air Quality Management District issue violations to PG&E like they did to
Chevron refinery in Richmond for the same reason? I don’t think so.