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by permo-w 1306 days ago
as far as I know, the gas was not off; massive quantities of gas were released. I recall reading about bubbles 1km in diameter
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From what I understand, the pipe was full of mostly stationary gas - it wasn’t flowing at an economically significant rate. That is effectively “off”
Pressurized with methane, now released to the atmosphere. It was actually one of the greatest ecological crimes of the century.