Natural gas storage is a regulated business that is required to maintain strict safety and environmental controls. Gas storage in a depleted reservoir, like the Central Valley Gas Storage facility, mimics nature's way of safely storing gas for millions of years. Central Valley Gas Storage will be built to meet or exceed all regulatory and modern industrial safety standards employing the latest technologies and engineering.

Construction and operation of Central Valley Gas Storage will have minimal impacts on the environment and on nearby landowners. The storage facility and pipeline corridor are located in previously farmed land with widely scattered rural residences and agricultural operations.

The proposed project pipeline route takes care to avoid environmentally sensitive wildlife areas.

The California Public Utility Commission will serve as the lead agency under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for purposes of environmental review of the proposed project.

There are currently ten natural gas storage fields operating in California. Six of the ten projects are in depleted gas fields while the other four, all in southern California, are using depleted oil reservoirs. In over three hundred years of project operations in California, there have been no injuries associated with natural gas storage operations.