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Yet not one single person will be punished for it.
Thursday, June 18, 2020
PG&E pleads guilty to 84 deaths in 2018 Camp Fire
Pacific Gas & Electric confessed Tuesday to killing 84 people in one of the most devastating wildfires in recent U.S. history during a dramatic court hearing punctuated by a promise from the company's outgoing CEO that the nation's largest utility will never again put profits ahead of safety.
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Yet not one single person will be punished for it.
ReplyDeleteHowever, all of "our" PGE bills will go up dramatically. Guess who gets to really pay for it.
You don't mean that the rate payers, PG&E's customers, are going to bent over and screwed again do you? Say it ain't so.
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They have a government-created monopoly on power distribution and government-controlled finances. The green weenies made it impossible to trim the rights-of-way for distribution lines and the financial controls made it almost impossible to maintain them.
ReplyDeleteThe CA PUC killed those people, PG&E is just the scapegoat.
So these yahoos killed 85 IN ADDITION to the eight they “accidentally “ killed in 2010 and they hope the actions taken today bring some measure of peace.
ReplyDeleteFuck you, asshole. 97 people died as a result of your company’s negligence. I don’t give a flying fuck how bankrupt your bullshit monopoly is; there is no justice in your hollow words. You might as well have said “thoughts and prayers for those affected”. I hope each and everyone of you rot in hell.
Make that 93 dead, not 97
DeleteIf you add in all the folks who died afterwards of heart-attacks, strokes, and suicide brought on by losing everything in the fires, I'm sure the body count in much higher.
DeleteI see them getting a massive fine and passing it on to the consumer via higher rates. If it don't kill you, you will suffer some other way.
ReplyDeleteTaking a wrist-slapping ruler from his desk, the judge admonished PG&E, saying, "You do this sort of thing again and this court will get real serious."
ReplyDeletePG&E is socialized in 3...2...1.... by Mexifornia state government.
ReplyDeleteTHEY know how to run a utility.
Since they are forced to do what the gov't tells them to do the gov't bureaucrats who tell them what to do are at least as much responsible, if not more so.
ReplyDeleteThey'll be getting their 6 figure pensions.
No more than the premeditated murder committed by Gov Cuomo..
ReplyDeleteIs this the same PG&E that did the hexavalent chromium thing? Would scumbags like that be able to afford lots of carrots and sticks to smooth the path to riches?
ReplyDeleteMeh - I'm no fan of the utility companies but PG&E is nothing more than the fall guy for decades of bad environmental policies driven by the likes of the Sierra Club and their buddies in government. Back country maintenance in California has been non-existent for many, many years. The terrible fire we had here in San Diego in 2003 was due in large part to the HUGE load of dry fuel that covered the hills and valleys throughout San Diego County at the time. Whenever the Forest Service announced plans to do some cleaning the environmentalists would take them to court to stop it. But somebody has to take the blame when the inevitable happens and it might as well be the utilities.
ReplyDeleteLets not forget about San Bruno...
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion