Updated on July 21, 2021 at 6:43 pm
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PG&E’s top official went to Chico on Wednesday, close to the origin of the Dixie fire, to announce her “moon shot” plan to bury 10,000 miles of distribution lines in an unprecedented effort to guard against future wildfires.
“We will make this safe and we will bury the lines,” said PG&E CEO Patti Poppe, adding she hopes the campaign – patterned after the effort to reach the moon in the 1960s -- will be done within a decade, at a cost of $15 billion or less.
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