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PG&E had received OK to repair pipeline near San Bruno, but work was never done
LA Times ^ | 9/15/10 | Marc Lifsher

Posted on 09/15/2010 4:52:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

State regulators in 2007 gave Pacific Gas and Electric Co. the go-ahead to spend $5 million of ratepayer money to replace a 62-year-old section of the same pipeline that exploded last week in San Bruno. But the work never got done as scheduled in 2009, and this year the utility asked for another $5 million to do the same job by 2013, according to documents submitted by PG&E to the California Public Utility Commission as part of a general rate-hike request.

While the cause of the pipeline explosion has yet to be determined, experts say that in general older lines are more prone to problems.

“There’s no excuse for deferring maintenance of potentially compromised pipelines that run under customers’ homes, businesses and schools,” said Mark Toney, executive director of the Utility Reform Network. The San Francisco ratepayer’s group, known as TURN, monitors electric and gas company regulatory activity.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: California
KEYWORDS: cpuc; greenenergypimps; pge; pipeline; prop16; sanbruno
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1 posted on 09/15/2010 4:52:19 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Oops.


2 posted on 09/15/2010 4:52:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: NormsRevenge

Now they want PG&E rate payers to pay the tab for their negligence.


3 posted on 09/15/2010 4:53:56 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Take back our country on November 2, 2010.)
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe the management needs their “smart” meters recalibrated.


4 posted on 09/15/2010 4:54:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

one way or another Pump & Gouge ‘Em makes ya pay..


5 posted on 09/15/2010 4:55:20 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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Sounds like they took the $5 million, didn't do the work and expected to get another $5 million handed to them. BS. They were paid to do the job and authorized to do the job...and they didn't do it. They still have the money and authorization. Insist that they do it AND pay the damages caused by their negligence.
6 posted on 09/15/2010 5:01:45 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: NormsRevenge

I imagine they didn’t want to pay to have an “environmental impact study” done or some other goofy, liberal crap like that. We’re getting to the point in this country where you’re going to need an “environmental impact study” done before you can change a light bulb. FN liberals.


7 posted on 09/15/2010 5:04:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (This isn't going to be "another 1994"! It's going to be much, much worse! Deal with it 'RATS!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge
They are going to fry.... Pun intended :)
8 posted on 09/15/2010 5:04:43 PM PDT by WyvernAK (Knowledge is Power, ie Obama is in trouble)
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To: NormsRevenge

That rotten egg odor is the smell of a gigantic lawsuit.


9 posted on 09/15/2010 5:09:29 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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This is the P G & E (Pacific Gouge and Extortion) pattern, ask for a rate increase to repair something and then use the money for bonus payments to executives.
About 7 or 8 years a go P G & E ask for a $20 million rate increase to replace aging wooden electrical poles. TURN (The Utility Reform Network) noted during the hearing that P G & E had made an identical request the year before for replacing the same poles. In that case P G & E was forced to admit that they had used the money for bonus payments to executives and other employees.
10 posted on 09/15/2010 5:10:58 PM PDT by Wooly
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To: NormsRevenge
5 million of ratepayer money to replace a 62-year-old section What is wrong with that statement? 62YEARS OLD.. THAT IS WHAT IS WRONG. All the money is going to pensions. IMHO!
11 posted on 09/15/2010 5:11:58 PM PDT by ColdOne (November and Beyond! Do not vote for Obama Republicans! Rove who?)
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So if they were supposed to reapir the pipe in 2009 why didn’t the regulatory agency which ok’d the 5 mollion of rate payor money make sure the work was performed. What the heck
is the reasoning of having all these stupid watchdog groups
and agencys if they dont really enforce. And furthermore Why the hell isnt PGE maintaining the pipes I live about 20 miles from San Bruno and am a PG&E customer and every month they send my bill and a little pamplet telling me if I cant pay my bill they can give me discount I wish they would have woried about the pipes instead of advertising get stuff for freee on the backs of the other rate payors.


12 posted on 09/15/2010 5:12:48 PM PDT by funfan
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Instead of spending the $5 million of ratepayer money on the pipeline fix, they spent $46 million pimping Proposition 16...which fortunately lost!

http://www.bnet.com/blog/clean-energy/pg-e-pipeline-explosions-prop-16-and-smart-meters-are-all-symptoms-of-the-same-disease/2501


13 posted on 09/15/2010 5:14:51 PM PDT by Drago
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To: NormsRevenge

And you wonder why PG&E has one of the worst reputations in the USA among public utilities, period. And that bad reputation was why we ended up with rolling blackouts in early 2001.


14 posted on 09/15/2010 5:18:06 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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You don’t want to be able to vote before your local politicians socialize the energy system? Why not?


15 posted on 09/15/2010 5:22:16 PM PDT by BigBobber
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To: ColdOne

Pensions, political contributions and “Green Initiatives”.

PG&E is one of the largest political contributors in the state - most of it to Dems. Earlier this hear they dumped over $40 mil into a ballot initiative to strengthen their monopoly. It lost. That $40 million would have paid to replace the pipeline in San Bruno 8 times over.

LADWP are bad but PG&E are the biggest bunch of crooks in California - after the state legislature of course.


16 posted on 09/15/2010 5:26:55 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Anyone who has read Roman history knows a barbarian invasion when they see one.)
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So you think a good way to end monopolies is to have the government take over private businesses? I’m puzzled to read that, at least here on FR.


17 posted on 09/15/2010 5:38:27 PM PDT by BigBobber
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

Wow worse than LADWP? That is saying something.


18 posted on 09/15/2010 5:49:20 PM PDT by ColdOne (November and Beyond! Do not vote for Obama Republicans! Rove who?)
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To: NormsRevenge

So, do insurance companies holding the bag SUE the gas company for creating the problem?


19 posted on 09/15/2010 5:55:10 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
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So, do insurance companies holding the bag SUE the gas company for creating the problem?

You know who pays for that lawsuit in toto, of course.

Poor ratepayers.

20 posted on 09/15/2010 6:01:27 PM PDT by Ole Okie
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