Is there a jail big enough to house PG&E
Pacific Gas & Electric..
What an odd name to give a child.
He’s looking at a lot of years with these charges.
I worked for a company that sold equipment to PGE.
Many years ago, they were a high quality organization.
But like a lot of things in California, things went downhill.
How does a CORPORATION plead guilty to manslaughter?
You can’t put a CORPORATION in jail.
Once PG&E goes to jail, how are utility consumers in California going to get electricity and natural gas? Seems like they could be in a “freeze in the dark” situation, adjusted for California’s weather.
And where are all the environmentalists that for years got California’s governors to not allow culling of brush and dead trees that exacerbated the wildfires. Oh, I know. Now they are off sounding the alarm about climate change flying all over the world in private jets for big climate change powows.
Then the state senate and assembly should plead guilty as well.
The Electric Chair for the corrupt PGE and their even more corrupt PUC “regulators” (a- missing money- grabbing wh@res). But alas, PGE would just impose another of their “discretionary power outages” and the chairs wouldn’t work. What a corrupt state Californication’s become!!!! Worse than communist Cuba or Iran or North Korea
This is a mistake. PG & E should not plead guilty. Every major corporation that has been sued for nonsense, political correctness etc, caves with a ‘plea deal’ and end up paying millions in the agreement. This is how the ‘state’ fills its treasury and during the Obama administration, they went after a large number of companies and got billions in fines.
This is a complex issue for me given that I lived in an area serviced by PG&E. I never understood why I would see 2 pg&e guys working on the side of the road and 3 others watching them. On the other side of the spectrum, for years the company attempted to get permission to clear out dead brush around their electrical equipment. This dead brush was fuel for potential fires. However, California bureaucrats would always block their attempts because the Sierra Club and other wacko tree huggers would threaten litigation. It was argued that clearing dead brush might disturb the mating habits of some muskrat that no one has seen for 50 years - for example. So now a once viable company and its employees are in danger of losing their jobs. With the fires not only are the muskrats gone, but just about all other wild life.
My cousin is a licensed arborist who was hired for BIG BUX by the state if California to mitigate some of the causes of this fire.
The proximate cause of the fire was that PG&E COULD NOT keep their rights-of-way clear of brush because of the environmentalist whackos “rules.”
My cousin did not tell met that the rules have been relaxed, but they must have been, because he and his crew are busy clearing brush away FRom the wires!
High winds pushed electric cables into the trees which were too close to the wires, and you know the rest.
Bottom line, it WAS NOT PG&E’s fault that those people died!
I can understand suing a company, and even maybe the judge finding the company was responsible for facts like someone dying.
But a company can't murder someone, that is a human act. To pretend that they can is another SJW distortion.
Don’t let them clear the brush out from under the lines, then prosecute them when the brush catches on fire from foreseeable short-circuits, like when a squirrel chews through the insulation.
PG&E is paying the penalty for obeying California State mandates and rules about trimming trees and protecting assets and the system.
When will the eco-fascists at Sierra Club and leftist politicians who supported these Nazis be charged with manslaughter?
So do they get sentenced to a halfway house as their headquarters?
That’ll drive up power costs!
The WIND started the fire.....
The Enviros never want trees rimmed near power lines.
In South Lake Tahoe in 2007, over 60 homes were burned down. The biggest factor? Tahoe Area Regional Planning (?) refused to let homeowners rake up the dead pine needles that blanketed the valley floor. In some places, the dead needles were actually over a foot deep. “SUCH NEEDLES ARE JUST NATURAL !” Property insurance was also sky high. Couldn’t cut low hanging branches, either.
After that, TARPA changed the rules. I don’t remember if THEY got sued over their refusal to let homeowners clean up their properties.