'If PG&E were a person, they would be on the way to prison right now.' (via latimesopinion)
It was no surprise that the state’s largest power company would take responsibility in court for the death and destruction of the 2018 Camp fire, the state’s deadliest wildfire on record.that they would plead guilty to the criminal charges, admitting that their equipment was responsible for the events that led to the failure of a century-old transmission line. The catastrophic fire that ensued killed 85 people and nearly wiped out the entire town of Paradise in the Northern California foothills.
There may be little satisfaction in this conviction for fire victims or loved ones of the 85 people who died in ghastly, unthinkable ways. After all, years of fines and past convictions haven’t managed to make PG&E a safer utility for the 16 million customers in central and Northern California that it serves.
But here’s the key to making the deal stick: If PG&E fails to follow through or sets more fires, it could have its operating license revoked by state regulators and be forced, under the terms of the deal, to sell its operations to the state or a nonprofit entity. And the state is getting prepared for the possibility. Both houses of the state Legislature have supported a
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