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Consumer agency wants PG&E fined $166 million for botching California wildfire blackouts
The Sacramento Bee ^ | October 31st, 2020 | By Dale Kasler

Posted on 10/31/2020 11:10:44 AM PDT by Mariner

California’s official advocate for utility ratepayers wants to have PG&E fined $165.7 million for mishandling a series of deliberate wildfire-safety blackouts last fall.

The Public Advocates Office of the California Public Utilities Commission said the commission should punish PG&E Corp. for failing to adequately warn hundreds of thousands of customers, including those relying on reliable electricity to power medical devices, about the October 2019 so-called public safety power shutoffs.

In a legal brief filed late Friday with the commission, the advocates said the blackouts were “a major public safety failure. PG&E put the lives of many vulnerable customers at risk, and either failed in or disregarded, its obligations to public safety partners, local agencies, and essential service workers.”

The blackouts — including three in one week — were a major debacle for Pacific Gas and Electric Co., which was already struggling through bankruptcy proceedings because of liabilities from the 2017 and 2018 wildfires. The size and duration of the shutoffs, engineered as ferocious Diablo winds rolled through Northern California, infuriated customers, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials.

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For the life of me I can't figure out why every PGE employee doesn't just go home and turn off their cell phone.
1 posted on 10/31/2020 11:10:44 AM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

Tie both their hands behind their backs and then sue them for not using their hands.


2 posted on 10/31/2020 11:12:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.)
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So PG&E gets fined and raises everybody’s rates. How does that help the consumers?


3 posted on 10/31/2020 11:12:41 AM PDT by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Mariner

I’ve been in Third World countries where the power is more reliable.


4 posted on 10/31/2020 11:12:57 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Mariner

It wasn’t until I got to the end of the article before I realized that this wasn’t in the Babylon Bee.


5 posted on 10/31/2020 11:15:19 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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“I’ve been in Third World countries where the power is more reliable.”

Doubtful.

At least not in any 3rd world country I’ve been in...from the east coasts of Asia and Africa, to South America.


6 posted on 10/31/2020 11:15:32 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: higgmeister

If you want reliable info, you’re better off getting your Bees from Babylon rather than Sacramento.


7 posted on 10/31/2020 11:17:02 AM PDT by Stosh
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“So PG&E gets fined and raises everybody’s rates. How does that help the consumers?”

It’s devolved to just another tax to redistribute wealth from the rate payers to preferred groups.


8 posted on 10/31/2020 11:20:29 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Merely prepping public opinion for the State’s fascist takeover of PG&E


9 posted on 10/31/2020 11:21:31 AM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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>>California’s official advocate for utility ratepayers wants to have PG&E fined $165.7 million for mishandling a series of deliberate wildfire-safety blackouts last fall.<<

So one side of California wants to transfer the taxpayer money to the other side of California.

This is like taking your cash out of your wallet and putting it in your nightstand and saying you have less money — and then demanding a raise which your boss cannot say no to.


10 posted on 10/31/2020 11:22:21 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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They are not allowed to clear weeds and brush, and yet when there is a fire it is PG&E's fault. I would just close up shop if I were they. Let California be looted in the dark.
 
11 posted on 10/31/2020 11:23:09 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Fish Speaker

I can’t think of any other company I would rather NOT be than PG&E.


12 posted on 10/31/2020 11:25:09 AM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: jcon40

You are right.

The state taking over PG&E is the ultimate goal.


13 posted on 10/31/2020 11:27:08 AM PDT by moviefan8
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To: Mariner

Standard progressive leftist money grab. They can’t produce or contribute s&!t.


14 posted on 10/31/2020 11:28:28 AM PDT by BusterDog
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The state taking over PG&E is the ultimate goal.

If they run it like their sustainable energy and forestry program, expect California to be on its knees in 5 years!


15 posted on 10/31/2020 11:31:06 AM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
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To: moviefan8

e.g. the socialization of their power grid.


16 posted on 10/31/2020 11:31:49 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Mariner

Why do Californians vote for Democrats. Are 51% really benefiting?


17 posted on 10/31/2020 11:32:15 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism requires slavery.)
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To: moviefan8

It’s time for PG&E to treat California like Dagny Tagert treated the Mexican San Sebastian Line in Atlas Shrugged. When the state takes over the only thing left should be a couple hundred feet of orange extension cord and a beat up Honda generator.


18 posted on 10/31/2020 11:33:02 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: Mariner

l8r


19 posted on 10/31/2020 11:39:43 AM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just like the did to Con Edison in NY, they take funding away and then blame you. The rat way of doing business


20 posted on 10/31/2020 11:55:07 AM PDT by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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