PG and E has announced a potential for a PSPS starting tonight.
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Should be a wider area since the Oak fire has started.
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PG&E PSPS Shutoffs started this evening and are currently underway. See this link for affected areas. https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outages/map/
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What a TRAVESTY!!!
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And all of the people hurt by the Dixie Fire get 40 million to split up. Pretty small price to pay!
While there is an absolute need to compensate in a small way, ($40M is not going to go far) the people of the Dixie Fire who lost everything, there are other factors involved. First and foremost, laying the restitution on the rate payers for PG&E management’s willful gross negligence and murder is not the best choice. It does nothing towards changing the behavior if they are allowed to pass everything on to the rate payers who have no say in the company policies or actions.
Secondly, the Dixie Fire Recovery Fund is on one aspect of this rate increase. There are recovery fees for line clearance and fuel reduction along with the intent to build a “war chest” for future bad behavior.
It isn’t as simple as just saying the Dixie Fire victims deserve this money, which absolutely do, but this is being sourced from people who live in areas also impacted by PG&E’s mistakes and bad behavior, such as the Kincade Fire area, the Atlas Fire area, even the Camp Fire area.
It’s a bad decision which will have no effect on reducing the bad behavior and further impact people who have already been impacted by the management’s bad judgment
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Pretty much everything PG&E does is reviewed and approved by the govt, for many decades.
Anybody remember the Trauner fire? Same thing but much smaller. Our county DA sued and won, it was a scene like Erin Brockovich.
Make PG&E pay, they have to turn around and make us pay in return. Can’t just go back on the shareholders, they are CalPERS and mutual and retirement funds, and widows and orphans.
You can go back on the management, fire them. The ones who led up to this are probably retired anyway.
It is a tangled up mess.
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