Aliso Canyon Health Study Community Advisory Group

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New regulations are in the works for underground natural gas storage!

SB 463 in draft form is open for public review.

Here's a link to the pdf on the Department of Conservation website: https://bit.ly/3HuGLZm

Please read and submit your comments before November 30.

Submit comments to:
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Department of Conservation
ATTN: SB 463 Underground Gas Storage Regulations
715 P Street, MS 1907
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Quarterly CAG/LACDPH meeting, Monday September 27 at 6pm.

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Residents, activists express no confidence in L.A. County’s Aliso Canyon gas leak health study The public health department, which is spearheading the study with guidance from a scientific oversight committee, known as SOC, and community advisory group, or CAG, recently released the study’s …

The health study CAG will not be holding our weekly mini town hall meeting today, but I wanted to remind you that all feedback for the health study is due by Friday, April 30, by 5pm.
We plan to hold our next meeting on Monday, April 26th at 6pm.
Below is our information about what to write about and where to send the email. If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to send us an email at [email protected].
We have all our town hall videos on our website, https://alisohealthstudycag.org/cag_town_halls/. You can watch the video of our presentation to the Porter Ranch Neighborhood Council at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSG-QvhRY7I.
From the Aliso Canyon Disaster Health Research Study Community Advisory Group
Here are the CAG’s recommendations for your public comments on the Health Study Goals & Priorities draft document. The CAG unanimously agrees that the loose draft language invites a mediocre study by encouraging the use of data proxies and environmental abstractions. We feel that only a clinically-based health study will result in the Gold Standard Health Study that our community deserves. PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD ENDS FRIDAY APRIL 30 AT 5PM.

HOW to respond
Use email rather than the limited data input form.

WHO to send your comments to
[email protected]

CC the following to maximize impact of your comments:
CAG at [email protected]
Supervisor Kathryn Barger at [email protected]
Councilman John Lee at [email protected]

WHAT to include in your comments
Require research to be clinically focused:
• Require clinical examinations.
• Require long-term clinical monitoring and evaluation.
• Require evaluation of the acute disaster exposures as well as the chronic exposure
before and after the blowout.
• Require evaluation of all chemicals and substances of exposure, including radiation,
crude oil, and particulate matter.

Require transparency of the following flaws in existing data:
• Data based on estimates of known chemical exposure, much is unknown.
• California Council on Science & Technology (CCST) deemed the air monitoring
measurements to be flawed and unusable for a Health Assessment.
• No air monitoring data in the early days of the blowout when release was most intense.
• Air monitoring toxic trigger points were set arbitrarily and well above safety limits.
• Majority of the air monitoring during the blowout was done by SoCalGas.

Require Dept. of Public Health to deliver foundational, scientific data about the exposure chemicals and substances since researchers will not have subpoena authority to compel SoCaGas to provide this data.
• Complete chemical list used in daily operations.
• Complete composition of gas, liquids, and solids from the blowout.
• Complete composition of well-kill elements and quantities.
• Contents of missing evidence bins, including radiation finding.
• Complete CBC Study data and findings.

For the CAG mini hall town hall that further talks about the statement: https://alisohealthstudycag.org/cag_town_halls/ Scroll down to the April 12 town hall.

Again, you have until Friday, April 30th, 5pm to let the Dept of Public Health know that this Goals & Priorities statement is unacceptable and completely ignored what the community wants (a clinically-based – which means looking at us – health study) and not a environmental risk assessment which will be a white wash of what we residents went through because of Aliso.

If you have gotten any symptoms or diagnoses of serious diseases, you need to let DPH know what kind of health study you want.

CAG Town Halls - CAG The Community Advisory Group (CAG) hosts a weekly mini town hall series on Mondays 6pm-7pm via Zoom. Each week the CAG will discuss a new topic to help the community … Continue reading "CAG Town Halls"

Friday, April 30 at 5pm (extended 2 weeks) is the Department of Public Health's deadline for public comment on the Goals & Priorities draft document. When finalized, this will be the document that researchers who wish to bid on the health study will use to form their proposals.

The Health Study has been a long time coming and this is a pivotal moment for its potential direction. Do you want to know how the exposure to the 2015-2016 Gas Blowout and affected the health of you and your family? Do you want to know if it's safe to live near the gas facility now? Whether or not this health study is relevant requires the involvement of all of us.

Your Community Advisory Group has posted recommendations to help you negotiate the Health Study Goals & Priorities document. It's very important that the health impacts the community is concerned about are part of the study and your CAG wants to ensure that the people who were exposed are studied clinically.

This link to the CAG website includes access to the document and email addresses to send your comments to.

https://alisohealthstudycag.org/2021/04/13/cag-recommendations-for-your-response-to-the-goals-priorities-draft-document/

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The Community Advisory Group (CAG), working on the Aliso Canyon Health Research Study, continues our weekly mini-townhall series

This week’s topic is: The Chemical List & More

Agenda:
Chemical List and DPH & County Subpoena Authority
Cancer Registry Study – a better path
Complete Blood Count (CBC) Study – why is it important and where is it?

Videos of past town halls available at: https://alisohealthstudycag.org/cag_town_halls/

Don’t miss your chance to hear the truth about how the Aliso Canyon Health Research Study is really going and why you need to be very concerned.
Each week the CAG will discuss a new topic, giving insights to who’s done what, the challenges faced, and who’s getting in the way of the people-centric study the community deserves. This isn’t another webinar with us just talking at you, we want to hear from you! Each week includes a Q&A session.
For much more information on the Community Advisory Group, to watch our past townhall videos, our actions, our views and much more, visit www.alisohealthstudycag.org or email us at [email protected].
We look forward to seeing you Monday!
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Air Monitoring Meeting - CAG Share this postVery important! Please attend! Register for the Zoom meeting at this link Download the pdf flyer about the meeting

Hope you are planning to join us for our monthly CAG meeting at 4pm today. Find the link to join via Microsoft Teams or phone on this webpage:
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/eh/healthresearch/cag.htm

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CAG/SOC Joint Letter to Supervisor Barger re: full chemical list - CAG The undersigned Scientific Oversight Committee and Community Advisory Group members hereby request that the County use any and all means available, including but not limited to subpoena power, to obtain the full list of chemicals and substances related to Aliso Canyon from the Southern California Ga...

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CAG seeks support from Elected Officials - CAG Share this postYour CAG has repeatedly requested meetings with Supervisor Barger as well as Councilman John Lee to urge them to obtain the full list of chemical and material exposures during the blowout from So Cal Gas. The CAG has received no response from Supervisor Barger nor Councilman John Lee....

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Please support this important Petition! - CAG Share this postChange.org Petition demanding the full Chemical List

Here is an update regarding the Aliso Canyon health study.
√The next monthly CAG (Community Advisory Group) meeting is next Monday, July 27, 4 to 6pm.
The public is invited to listen in and even make public comment.
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√The next day, Tuesday, July 28, from 10:30am to 12:30 pm, will be a joint meeting of the CAG and the Scientific Oversight Committee. The SOC consists of several experts in the fields of epidemiology and disaster behavior health, among others, that the CAG help push to get on this group alongside representatives from governmental agencies such as the AQMD, CARB, and the California Dept. of Public Health. This SOC will be working on the scope for the study
During this meeting, the CAG will be giving a presentation, including a video, to inform the SOC of what the communities’ issues are concerning the health study.

The public is invited to “attend” this meeting. It will be on Web X, and after the CAG tried it out this last Monday, we found some issues with this platform. Unfortunately this will be the way to access this meeting (but we have asked the County Dept of Public Health to explore alternatives for the upcoming town hall and other meetings. The County has stopped using Zoom).
• Here’s the info: Meeting Link:
https://lacpublichealth.webex.com/lacpublichealth/onstage/g.php?MTID=ea5f565c6982fbaefe3b5bba3807dedf6
• Meeting event number (access code): 145 979 0123
• Call in information:
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(unfortunately, there’s not a local phone number)

We suggest starting the process to get on the meeting at least 15 minutes before the start time as you may need to load a temporary extension.
√And yes, we have a rescheduled date for the town hall that originally was set last March. It will be on Wednesday, September 30 from 6-8pm.
√The CAG has created a website and we’ll try to post any meeting info, plus other great info.
https://alisohealthstudycag.org/
√The members of the CAG are continuing to press two major issues. The first is the BTEX air monitoring system that was funded by the August 2018 SoCalGas consent decree, but seems to be locked up in some pi***ng contest among the state, county, and city legal entities. The CAG has been corresponding with the parties that are mentioned in the consent decree as well as the lawyers who seem to be holding it up. The PRNC has also been trying to get this project in motion as this system will help us residents know the level of four toxic chemicals in our area (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene).
√The other issue is the comprehensive chemical list of all materials used on the Aliso wells, before and during the blowout, as well as the four years since well SS-25 was sealed. Residents have been asking for this list all along, and the top medical officials at the County Dept. of Public Health have acknowledged that this list is a necessity for a science-based health study. The CAG has found out that the County can subpoena this list, but there’s some reticence on part of Supervisor Barger. We are pressing her (and also asking other elected officials to help with our goal) to agree to have the County issue this subpoena.

√We have also started circulating a petition to show Supervisor Barger that residents want this list. If you haven’t already, please sign it and also let friends and families know about it, even if they don’t live in the north SFV (a health study using this info can help other communities which live near gas or oil facilities understand what could be affecting their health).
Here’s that petition: https://www.change.org/p/los-angeles-county-supervisor-kathryn-barger-obtain-the-full-list-of-chemicals-released-by-socalgas-during-the-aliso-canyon-gas-blowout
√This is the LA County Dept. of Public Health website for the health study: http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/eh/healthresearch/
√On the Shut Down Aliso Canyon front, we are working on how to commemorate the 5th Anniversary of the blowout. There will be a webinar Topic: Aliso Canyon Webinar - 5YR Anniversary Preview on Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 7pm PDT.
Here’s the details of how to get on that Zoom call:
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√Save Porter Ranch plans to have meetings every first Wednesday of the month and the third Saturday of the month. To keep informed and get the info for getting on these calls, please sign up for the email list (you won’t get spam mail), at https://saveporterranch.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6cf616c59fcfdb2130d70abbd&id=37104a047b.

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SOC Scoping Meeting #2 - CAG Share this postThe CAG will give a presentation to the Scientific Oversight Committee to help them better understand the communities impacted by the Aliso Canyon Gas Facility. Please join us. WebEx Meeting Information Meeting Link: https://lacpublichealth.webex.com/lacpublichealth/onstage/g.php?MTI...

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June 22 CAG meeting 4pm - CAG Share this postCLICK HERE for a direct link to today’s meeting online via Microsoft Teams App. You’ll want to visit early to get the application on your device if you don’t already have it. Members of the community are invited to participate in public comment using the “Raise Hand” functio...

Direct link to today's 4pm CAG meeting:

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You'll want to click on it earlier to get Teams set up on your device. We're not crazy about Teams, but that's what DPH IT is using today.

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REMINDER: JUNE CAG MEETING MONDAY JUNE 22 AT 4PM

Join the online meeting via Microsoft Teams at the link below. We recommend you visit the link and get set up with Microsoft Teams 30 minutes or so before the meeting starts. It's pretty easy.

The link to this meeting, as well all upcoming meetings with the agenda and other materials, is available at http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/eh/healthresearch/

Public comment time is included in the agenda!

Remember, CAG meetings are on the 4th Monday of the month unless it's a holiday. Bookmark the link if you want to check to see what's going on and what materials are available, but we will post reminders here and on our CAG blog.

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All upcoming meetings are now posted on the main DPH Health Study page, along with "join meeting" links. This is a good first step towards better communication with you. We're also instituting a greater lead time for letting the public know when special events (online meetings) are happening.

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