PG&E Delayed Safety Work on Power Line That Is Prime Suspect in California Wildfire

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The deadliest wildfire in California history started near one of PG&E's high-voltage lines. The company had planned to fix it every year for five years, and never did.

For five years, PG&E Corp. repeatedly delayed a safety overhaul of a century-old high-voltage transmission line that is a prime suspect behind the deadliest wildfire in California history.

The company told federal regulators in 2013 it planned to replace many of the towers, wires and hardware pieces on the line, called the Caribou-Palermo, regulatory filings show. It again proposed the project in 2014, 2015 and 2016—pushing it back each year. The company planned to start work June 2018 and finish late last year. It hasn’t...

 

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PG&E needs to foot the bill for ALL of the damage caused by those fires

How is this climate change dems

Dont be late on that bill though.

Reading your tweet, one would think you are accusing PG&E of being responsible for the fire.

ErinBrockovich !!!!!

Why is PG&E still open?

Not to take away from that disater, but it that fire would have only been a minor inconvinience if California had proper forestry laws....

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