Under Senate Bill 1028, San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric were supposed to prepare annual wildfire mitigation plans for reducing fire threats and identify who specifically would be responsible for implementing them.
The bill, signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown in September 2016, also called on the California Public Utilities Commission to review the filings every year, comment on the material and audit the companies to make sure the plans were being followed.
More than two years after the legislation was enacted, state regulators have yet to issue directives for the utilities to write the plans, let alone discuss or examine them for compliance — although SDG&E says its own fire plans comply with the law.
California is passing more laws than they can enforce.
California is such a complicated state. I lived there all my life, and I never knew PG&E was responsible for regulating forest management or house zoning in wooden areas within the state.
Shut it down.
Let them sit in the dark.
Then they will be safe from electrical fires.
The real question is what’s motivating Becerra here? Hard to believe it has anything to do with seeking justice.
Translation:
Your "Campaign Contributions," bribes, kickbacks and graft paid to the California DemoRat Party and Commie Lawyer Xavier Becerra have not been sufficient to buy you protection, so pony up, or else.
How about charging Forest Service for forest mismanagement for the past 50 years.
Uhhhhh how can a company be guilty of murder? The officers perhaps, but everyone in the company? Stupid. Sensible people should leave that godforsaken state.
Sounds like someone wants a big fat campaign contribution.
Are they going to electrocute the electric company if they find it guilty?
Know whats gonna happen? The state of commiefornia will declare it will take over the running of the power company because of this.
WAIT! IT WILL HAPPEN.
Electricity is the next thing the poe won’t be able to afford anymoe...
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!
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!!!