Posted on 10/31/2020 11:10:44 AM PDT by Mariner
Californias 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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Tie both their hands behind their backs and then sue them for not using their hands.
So PG&E gets fined and raises everybody’s rates. How does that help the consumers?
I’ve been in Third World countries where the power is more reliable.
It wasn’t until I got to the end of the article before I realized that this wasn’t in the Babylon Bee.
“Ive 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.
If you want reliable info, you’re better off getting your Bees from Babylon rather than Sacramento.
“So PG&E gets fined and raises everybodys rates. How does that help the consumers?”
It’s devolved to just another tax to redistribute wealth from the rate payers to preferred groups.
Merely prepping public opinion for the States fascist takeover of PG&E
>>Californias 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.
I can’t think of any other company I would rather NOT be than PG&E.
You are right.
The state taking over PG&E is the ultimate goal.
Standard progressive leftist money grab. They can’t produce or contribute s&!t.
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!
e.g. the socialization of their power grid.
Why do Californians vote for Democrats. Are 51% really benefiting?
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.
l8r
Just like the did to Con Edison in NY, they take funding away and then blame you. The rat way of doing business
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