Posted on 12/30/2018 5:42:35 PM PST by NoLibZone
California's largest public utility provider could face murder or manslaughter charges if it were found responsible for causing the state's recent deadly wildfires, according to court documents filed by the state attorney general.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co., or PG&E, could potentially face a range of criminal offenses if any of the wildfires broke out as a result of the utility failing to properly operate and maintain power lines, per an amicus brief filed in US District Court Friday by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
PG&E, which provides electricity to about 16 million Californians, has been under scrutiny for how it maintains its infrastructure amid questions about what caused the Camp Fire -- the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state's history.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Control. All socialists crave control. In this case, charging and convicting PG&E would bankrupt the utility, allowing the State to step in and take control. Then they could solve "climate change" by raising rates through the roof, and only allowing energy use for "responsible" industries and individuals, while denying it to all others.
Don't think for a moment this is not their end goal.
Electricity is the next thing the poe won’t be able to afford anymoe...
A more corrupted “regulatory agency” and political “oversight” would be very hard to find, in the opinion of many. Has a long track record of corruption too - - some very well documented - resulting in some of the highest utility rates in America. Just who’s gonna buck the power brokers there? HilLIARy will go to prison long before the utility power brokers or their puppet political hacks and “regulators” imho.
My guess is that he is salivating over the idea of "nationalizing" PG&E by bankruptcy...
Absolutely. Every effort they make is always a deceptive con job towards full communism as the final goal. The frogs are about to boil.
I agree. PG&E is so heavily regulated that it’s practically an agency of the state already. Maybe they want to go all the way and quasi-nationalize it
Simple solution, PG&E should simply state that they are turning the power off, taking down its lines, etc...for as long as the stupid-ass Cali AG thinks murder charges should be on the table.
Sounds like Xavier is using the “good stuff”....murder, right...might as well indict the CPUC as well...PG&E doesn’t dare sneeze without the CPUC’s permission.
This is all grandstanding. In California an illegal alien shooting a gun into a crowd and killing someone wasn’t even able to be convicted of manslaughter. Falling trees knocking down high voltage electrical lines are going to sometimes cause fires no matter what precautions have been taken. It is like the tens of thousands of people killed in automobile mishaps every year. You can’t completely eliminate it without basically eliminating automobiles.
Power Company should shut down the electrical grid until you know it’s safe. Any wires over brush, shut it down. You may be executed if you don’t .
Sounds like Cali pols have found their patsy.
Now if I were PG&E then I would just flip the master switch and shut the entire grid down in California. Lock the door on the way out.
Atlas Shrugged!
Who needs electricity anyway?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SatzuAXvNVM
Eyewitness fire inspector reported a sheet metal carport which remained intact, with only slight signs of heat damage at the eave on it’s paint, but the SUV beneath the carport was completely torched, including it’s engine block melted on the ground and glass vaporized, but trees around the property perimeter still had their crowns intact.
Anomalies such as this occurred in EVERY subdivision they inspected. So they weren’t anomalies any longer, but evidence of a different source for the fires. Considering the unreported body count, it isn’t being fully reported.
I never knew PG&E was responsible for regulating forest management or house zoning in wooden areas within the state.
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If you were as rich as PG&E, you would be responsible for all that.
California Assembly Bill No. 2911
CHAPTER 641
An act to amend Sections 51179, 51189, and 65302.5 of, and to add Section 65040.21 to, the Government Code, and to amend Sections 4291 and 4291.3 of, and to add Sections 4290.5 and 4295.5 to, the Public Resources Code, relating to fire safety.
Approved by Governor September 21, 2018.
Filed with Secretary of State September 21, 2018.
Existing law requires a local agency to designate, by ordinance, very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction within 120 days of receiving recommendations from the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection and exempts a local agency, as defined, from that requirement if ordinances of the local agency, adopted on or before December 31, 1992, impose standards that are equivalent to, or more restrictive than, specified state standards. Try and find those standards in the latest California Fiore Code:
https://www.citymb.info/Home/ShowDocument?id=28089
In the California Legislation Information, you can find this:
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=4291.&lawCode=PRC
But it does not match up to any federal documents I can find and appears incomplete in the designation of fault. And from what I could find, PG&E does not own the land they service. Part is private ownership, and the rest is the state or feds. Gonna take a scorecard to straighten this out.
rwood
AG should face murder charges for not protecting citizens in sanctuary cities!!!!
He’s a serious retarded individual.
Can’t wait for him to cross swords with federales.
Becerra is openly violating US Federal law!
Someone please charge him!!!
Sounds quite reasonable.
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