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Regulators Put PG&E on Probation for Wildfire Safety Shortcomings


The Camp Fire rages through Paradise, Calif. , on Nov. 8, 2018. (AP file photo/Noah Berger)
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) California regulators on Thursday placed beleaguered utility Pacific Gas and Electric in the first stage of an enhanced oversight process that could lead to the state’s largest provider of power and natural gas losing its license to operate in California.
The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved a resolution to move PG&E into the first stage of a six-step enhanced oversight process, citing its failure to prioritize wildfire prevention work in areas that posed the greatest risk of fire last year. ....

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Regulators Put PG&E on Probation Over Wildfire Safety Lapses


“We will continue to monitor very closely,” CPUC President Marybel Batjer said before the vote.
But safety advocates, like Nathaniel Skinner with CPUC’s Public Advocates Office, were not satisfied. Skinner says the commission must do more in light of PG&E’s failure to cut down a leaning tree identified as the cause of the deadly Zogg Fire last year.
“We are seeing the same old PG&E management of deflect, defer, ignore and obfuscate,” Skinner said. “They are playing a game of dodging accountability, when what they should be doing is accepting their failure, coming clean about it and being accountable.” ....

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U.S. District Judge Alsup is currently considering proposals that would require PG&E to consider the risk of trees falling onto power lines as part of the conditions to its criminal probation.
Alsup has been highly critical of PG&E s efforts to abate the risk of wildfires. In one recent order Alsup recounted what he called a a stunning chapter in California history.
According to his tally, since PG&E was placed on probation following a 2016 conviction for a 2010 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, PG&E has ignited 20 or more wildfires in California, killing at least 111 individuals, destroying at least 22,627 structures, and burning half a million acres. ....

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