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Lawmakers say PG&E lobbyists in Sacramento are pushing for legislation that could help the company avoid paying fire damages, so long as it isn’t found negligent in the maintenance of its equipment.
“All the reports are not in now, but there are telltale signs that it was our power grid causing a lot of these fires,” said state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, whose district covers much of the North Bay.

THIS IS WHY EVERYTHING GOT SHUT DOWN DUE TO WIND… (Gulf streams can be manipulated via microwaved RF frequencies from orbit.. go back to the first post and read the email from Mr Kimmel again)
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He has introduced legislation — SB 901 — that would force utilities to preemptively shut down power lines during times of high fire risk, although it would be up to the companies and the utilities commission to hash out the criteria for doing so.”
(SB 901 : https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB901)

Consequences… What you need to know about the PG&E wildfire power shutdown – Oct. 16, 2018
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/5-things-we-know-about-the-PG-E-wildfire-power-13308084.php from Oct. 16, 2018
(this one has a great ‘bizarre fire’ photos on it.. burned out tree next to an untouched Power pylon and grren foilage jsut behind it.. very localised damage)
QUOTE :
“PG&E reported that 3,400-plus customers were still without electricity Tuesday morning. The outage affected 1,794 people in parts of Calistoga, Sebastopol and Santa Rosa, and about 1,640 people in Lake County remained in the dark.” (SEBASTAPOL)
IMPORTANT Normally this following article would have been a deathknell for any other company!!!!
Shares of electricity provider PG&E have worst day since 2002 as wildfires ravage California – 9 Nov 2018
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/09/shares-of-electricity-provider-pge-plunge-as-wildfires-ravage-california.html

AH.. wait a minute.. not important.. not our fault, what about GLOBAL WARMING??? …….
California’s top utility regulator says PG&E bankruptcy not a worry, but fires are a ‘s— pie’ – November 16, 2018
https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article221740610.html
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“Speaking to The Sacramento Bee on Friday, Michael Picker, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, said the bigger worry is what to do to stop the onslaught of devastating wildfires the state has seen in recent years.
PG&E’s woes are, he said, “a small slice of a bigger shit pie. That’s a technical term.
What is California doing about wildfires?” Picker said. He called climate change a major unanswered issue, and said, “we have to have other solutions.”
Despite news reports about power lines causing fires, Picker said only one out of ten wildfires is caused by utility infrastructure issues.
“The PUC president acknowledged that PG&E’s growing financial costs and liabilities are a concern and that the state needs to take further steps to ensure the utility, which supplies power in Northern California, has continued borrowing ability at decent rates.”

In fact.. lets protect PG&E from liability….thats a fantastic idea..
Capitol Tracker: Lawmakers working on bill PG&E-friendly wildfire bill – November 26, 2018

Capitol Tracker: Lawmakers working on bill PG&E-friendly wildfire bill

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““We want to send a signal to the financial markets that we are not going to leave the utilities flapping in the wind,” Kellie Smith, chief consultant for the state Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee, told Bay Area News Group last week.”