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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAudit: Pacific Gas & Electric didn't spend $50M collected for pipeline safety and maintenance
Audit: PG&E didn't spend $50M for safety
Associated Press
Updated: 06/04/2013 08:50:24 AM PDT
SAN FRANCISCO -- An audit says Pacific Gas and Electric Co. did not use $50 million intended to improve its gas pipeline network in the decade leading up to a deadly explosion in a San Francisco Bay area suburb.
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According to the Chronicle, PG&E from 1999 to 2010 regularly failed to use all the money it collected from ratepayers to fix and maintain small gas lines that deliver natural gas to homes and businesses.
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The 2010 blast in San Bruno killed eight people.
http://www.mercurynews.com/pge/ci_23384671/audit-pg-e-didnt-spend-50m-safety
Associated Press
Updated: 06/04/2013 08:50:24 AM PDT
SAN FRANCISCO -- An audit says Pacific Gas and Electric Co. did not use $50 million intended to improve its gas pipeline network in the decade leading up to a deadly explosion in a San Francisco Bay area suburb.
...
According to the Chronicle, PG&E from 1999 to 2010 regularly failed to use all the money it collected from ratepayers to fix and maintain small gas lines that deliver natural gas to homes and businesses.
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The 2010 blast in San Bruno killed eight people.
http://www.mercurynews.com/pge/ci_23384671/audit-pg-e-didnt-spend-50m-safety
Any wonder that an old, defective pipe blew up a neighborhood in San Bruno and killed 8 people?
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Audit: Pacific Gas & Electric didn't spend $50M collected for pipeline safety and maintenance (Original Post)
CreekDog
Jun 2013
OP
Early on they tried to say that the victims, some dead, had contributory negligence
CreekDog
Jun 2013
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Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)1. Love how they keep trying to paint themselves as victims in all this.
Instead of fighting the huge penalty they were levied, they should be begging forgiveness.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)2. Early on they tried to say that the victims, some dead, had contributory negligence
Disgusting.
In court, PG&E deflects blame for San Bruno blast
Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
Published 7:12 pm, Monday, July 11, 2011
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The company also indicated it would seek to assign some of the blame for the losses from the explosion to residents themselves.
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In its court filing, PG&E also said the blast victims themselves "may have been legally responsible under a doctrine of comparative negligence (or) contributory negligence" - factors that assign a portion of blame to a plaintiff.
PG&E's filing did not specify how residents might have been negligent, or how that negligence contributed to the fireball that consumed their homes.
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PG&E also suggested the payments that the company has already made to some residents meant their lawsuits were invalidated "in whole or in part." The firm made cash payouts of $15,000 to $50,000 after the blast, on a scale that depended on the extent of damage, but said at the time that the payments had no bearing on civil damages.
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San Bruno City Manager Connie Jackson said PG&E's court filing was "completely surprising." She added, "It's unfortunate that they have thrown everything plus the kitchen sink in this, to cover their legal strategy."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/In-court-PG-E-deflects-blame-for-San-Bruno-blast-2355029.php#ixzz2VGesMLQV
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)3. I don't honestly think they should still exist in their present form.
They need complete overhauling or state takeover.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)4. Agreed.
Last edited Tue Jun 4, 2013, 03:22 PM - Edit history (1)
PG & E's obviously not capable of doing the job.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)5. They seem to be really great at fleecing CA.
I forget to what extent they were involved in the whole Enron thing, but with this on top of that--I'm not sure I want to see what they might do next...
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)6. warren buffett owns a big chunk of pg&e, and lots of other utilities. he also likes to take tax