Some cause & effect here: PG&E is not shutting down power because they get sued every time they burn down a city. They are shutting down power because they deferred maintenance for decades in order to maximize shareholder profits and now their systems are too broken to safely run
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it’s naive to assume that this wouldn’t be unfathomably hard and unprecedented for a democratic system to also navigate. Californians in both public and private systems are making dumb choices in confronting the sheer scale of climate change.
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They continue to not manage building in areas where homes become the fuel for wildfires.https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-06/california-ignores-science-homes-wildfire-zones …
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Looks like it's cheaper for them to ignore maintenance, stick the money in their pockets, and let the towns they "serve" burn.pic.twitter.com/2YJlRikeYk
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Let's see... $564 million in quarter, that's like $2.25 billion divided by $5000 per tree removed equals 450,000 tree removals per year.
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My daughter worked for a PG&E contractor for a couple of years in Mendocino, CA. Her sole job was to survey trees & report any in danger of touching the power lines.
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But they primarily need to focus on a much smaller swath of their power transmission and generation lines
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They should be out raking the woods, that’s the secret I hear
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5$-6$ thousand to remove a single tree? That seems a bit high! Is that in rural, hard to reach areas? That can’t be true in suburban areas or around cities?
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"it's fine to burn homes and kill people as long as we can still turn a profit" is all I'm hearing my dude. Fuck their bottom line. Every dollar of profit is a dollar *not* spent ending fires and saving lives. That sort of naïve thinking is how we are here instead of solving it.
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(since my tweet is angry I would like to clarify I'm not angry at you, I am angry at PG&E exdcutives and management)
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it’s $5-6K per tree to remove them near power lines and $3-5M per mile to underground lines. PG&E has more than a hundred thousand miles of lines and covers 70% of the vegetated terrain in California. While I agree with you they are negligent in many cases,