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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I’m truly shocked that Mill Valley homeowners have put their own immediate desires over the welfare of the public. We should privatize everything. I’m convinced!
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But mostly PG&E have been differing maintenance and pocketing the change for decades. It’s a little naive to think otherwise about these long standing crooks.
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This is extremely underreported. Most homeowners in the back country put off necessary vegetation removal & then expect the govt to protect them from raging fires.
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It has more to do with the lack financial help for people who live in the farthest outreaches of the National Park l
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PG&E has been deferring maintenance for more than 20 years. Not just trees but also gas pipelines, or have you forgottten that already? No shareholder benefits in maintenance
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I am not making this stuff up. To whit:https://www.kqed.org/news/11737336/judge-pge-paid-out-stock-dividends-instead-of-trimming-trees …
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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,