[ptsal]

[snip] “Decades of frivolous lawsuits, foot dragging bureaucracies, and a virtual ‘no touch’ forest policy have coupled with onerous regulations on utilities on where, when, how, and what kind of electricity to generate,” LaMalfa wrote in a Facebook post. “It has all come home to roost.”

[ptsal]

Nothing like Democrats not stepping up to the plate and taking responsibility. Bad actors from top to bottom.

[healy61]

America doesn’t need much from California. They are a mess.

[Celtic Conservative]

The California Democratic Party: building a bridge to the 19th century.

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[JLAGRAYFOX]

California sucks, Your Governor sucks, Your chosen, Democrat Party, Low Life, Scum & Vermin Humanity...sucks, You deserve every personal daily pain, the homeless, the high taxes, the “Zero” services, the massive druggies and their street discarded needles, the massive Feces Turds on your streets and sidewalks, and the massive illegal immigrants, etc., you get. You idiots voted for these morons. You deserve every shortcoming that impacts you and your families and businesses every day!!! Your getting exacting what you voted for!!!

[_Jim]

Judge’s order strives to reduce the number of fires caused by PG&E
By Adam Brinklow Jan 10, 2019, 11:09am PST

“PG&E may not take into account the inconvenience to customers or its revenues and profits” over safety, says federal judge

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/1/10/18177144/pge-power-grid-shutdown-order-wildfire-judge-fires

On Wednesday, a federal judge in charge of Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) ongoing criminal probation laid out a series of new regulations on the utility that are “intended to reduce to zero the number of wildfires caused by PG&E in the 2019 wildfire season.”

In the most sweeping of the proposed changes to the terms of PG&E’s probation, Judge William Alsup says that the company must shut off power to parts of its grid whenever there is sufficient risk of a fire hazard:

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At all times during the 2019 Wildfire Season (and thereafter), PG&E may supply electricity only through those parts of its electrical grid it has determined to be safe under the wind conditions then prevailing. Conversely, PG&E must de-energize any part of its grid not yet rated as safe by PG&E for the wind conditions then prevailing until those conditions have subsided. [...]

PG&E may not take into account the need for reliability of service, the inconvenience to customers resulting from interruption in service, or its impact upon PG&E’s revenues and profits.
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This could mean extended blackouts for PG&E customers. But as Alsup points out, that’s a minor concern compared to the results of the state’s 2017 and 2018 wildfire records.