The one-two punch was delivered Wednesday. California power regulators are fining PG&E $106 million for its mishandling of power outages in 2019. The utility also reached $43.4 million in settlements with government agencies in Sonoma, Tehama and Shasta counties, which were ravaged by wildfires ignited by its equipment during 2019 and last year, the biggest wildfire season in the state on record.
Tuesday, June 01, 2021
PG&E To Pay Nearly $150M For Botched Outages, Recent Wildfires
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP/CBS13) — Pacific Gas & Electric is getting hit with a nearly $150 million bill for neglect that caused Northern California wildfires during the past two years and mismanagement of blackouts designed to prevent the utility’s crumbling power grid from causing more damage.
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pocket change, plus the customers will be paying the bill.
ReplyDeleteThe little up and coming thugs wanted their own Mercedes Benz, rat now!
ReplyDeleteOops, I meant to put this insensitive comment in the story about the Atlanta city councilman that had his Benz stolen by some of his young homies.
DeleteCalifornia has found a fall guy for their disastrous environmental policies and the lickspittle idiots out here suck it all up.
ReplyDeleteThey got away CHEAP!
ReplyDeleteI would imagine the insurance companies want their pound of flesh as well...
...and the people that were really hurt by PG&E; people that their lives, homes and businesses, won't see one thin dime of any of that money. The blood sucking lawyers will get it all.
ReplyDeleteNemo
They're (we're) the ones that'll be stuck paying the fine through our higher rates. Fuck Kalifornia (again).
DeleteYep, higher rates for customers
ReplyDeleteMuch of which would have been avoided if State had allowed PG&E to perform necessary under brush maintainance. Send the bill c/o The Sierras Club who instigated ag8tated and equivocated on the issue.
ReplyDeleteState of California forbade proper maintenance of right-of-ways and expansion of the power supply and grid capacity. They are now fining PG&E for the crime of not ignoring them and doing what was needed anyway.
ReplyDeleteScum lawyers will get 90% of it, and the connected will get the other 10
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