PG&E Could Face Murder Charges If Found Responsible for Deadly Wildfires in NorCal: Attorney General

KTLA ^ | 12-30-18 | CNN Wire

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Cvenger, that's an odd detail.

[Ozark Tom]

Klingon Disruptor?

[Karl Spooner]

Sanctuary cities get innocent people murdered, too. Any talk about murder charges against the government officials responsible for that?

[RhoTheta]

If you were as rich as PG&E, you would be responsible for all that.

I worked for PG&E for about 35 years. I remember when the State of California and its CPUC bankrupted PG&E. Democrat Grey Davis was Governor, and decided that a whole contract department in PG&E were too ignorant to negotiate natural gas prices with their sources. They also decided to deregulate the supply side of electric sources, and that PG&E shouldn't own their own natural gas fired power plants. At the same time, they failed to deregulate the delivery side, so PG&E couldn't pass along their actual costs to the consumers. The CPUC caps how much PG&E can earn in any rate case, but doesn't guarantee that they can achieve that rate of return.

Guess what. PG&E was forced to sell off all its fossil fuel generation plants, and then those owners could charge PG&E whatever they wanted for the energy. Funny thing though, California's environmental regulations made fossil fuel plants so expensive to operate that the new owners couldn't afford to keep up. Several of the plants were decommissioned, and the remaining few now belong to PG&E again. There isn't any new construction, because the permit process and regulatory issues are inhospitable, and the NIMBYs in Silicon Valley don't want any power generation close to the big electrical load.

PG&E gets a significant part of its energy from good, clean, capitalized hydroelectric plants in Northern California, but environmentalists want to eliminate the necessary dams to protect the seasonal migration of spawning salmon.

One of PG&Es most reliable plants has been the Diablo Canyon nuclear units near San Louis Obisbo. The environmentalists and anti-nuke groups almost succeeded in keeping it from ever going online, but now they have managed to bully PG&E to retire these plants well before their designed life.

On the gas side, PG&E's expert buyers were replaced by Grey Davis, day-trading against experts.

Too bad PG&E headquarters is at 77 Beale Street in downtown sanctuary city, San Francisco, and subject to all the additional stupid regulations that go with that location.

[ronnie raygun]

And the enviro nazis and the homeless living in the forest go free

[palmer]

The very first picture in the video shows a fallen tree with black mold inside. Did the tree fall over (somehow), then get blasted with a laser? Or was it microwaved until it burned internally then fell over? Then a picture of a burned metal structure with some holes. Are those from the lasers? Then a plastic trash container next to a burned vehicle without any notion of whether it is an original picture or taken later after stuff was moved around.

I only watched a little, but it was very uninformative. If they decide to write it up, with pictures and explanation under each picture please let me know. Now I remember why I never watch videos.

[ridesthemiles]

Bacerra was NOT eligible for the office Brown appointed him to in the first place.

California Constitution clearly states that AG in California MUST have an active law license for at least 5 years prior to appointment.

Bracerra had not had an active license for over 25 years.

Now- he is doing a serious over reach with these comments.

P G & E DID NOT CAUSE the fire.

WIND caused the fire, broke tree branches in forests that needed serious thinning, and arced between lines.

[mewzilla]

This is an extortion attempt.

It will be interesting to see of PG&E submits...

[kiryandil]

     

Carolinafornia is now hard at work chasing the electric power companies out of the state.

Maybe they can import pallets and pallets of AA batteries from China to run all their stuff...