Pacific Gas and Electric Co. announced Monday it has reached two settlements with six Northern California counties to resolve the cases surrounding the 2019 Kincade Fire and the 2021 Dixie Fire.
The utility will pay $55 million over five years as part of both settlements.
So fires caused by overloaded lines, in turn caused by incompetent state regulators and NIMBY idiots get blamed on the power company...
ReplyDeleteAnd charged to the customers...See how nice that works out?*sarc*
DeleteThe Kincade Fire, like the Camp Fire the year before, started when a PG&E transmission tower failed. The Dixie Fire started as a result of a tree falling into a line. Both fires were the company's fault.
DeletePG&E saved more than the $55 million settlement by not having to defend itself in court from prosecution by six different counties to cases in which they had no defense.
Um, no.
DeleteAnd the customers pay for it. Laughing all the way to the next election.
ReplyDeleteAnd I see that there is no mention of monies set aside to reimburse the insurance companies or the victims of the fires.
ReplyDelete$55 Million? No problem.
ReplyDeleteWe'll just raise our rates to cover it. Again.
PG&E should tell the state regulators that they (PG&E) will turn off the power every time that wind and storms are predicted, until the state allows PG&E to clear the underbrush, and the state starts practicing intelligent forest management instead of listening to tree-huggers and PETA a**holes.
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