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PG&E gas employees wined and dined just before mass power outages
- sarcasmatwork 7y agoWorking link: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-gas-employees-wined-and-dined-just-before-14512194.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-gas-employ...
- java-man 7y agoExecutives wined and dined. What do they care? The company is bankrupt: they just succeeded in shedding down a load of responsibility.
- tamaharbor 7y agoJust one last 'big middle finger' to the California politicians (who still appear clueless).
- tlb 7y agoFixed, thanks.
- TallGuyShort 7y agoOh fuck these ad blocker walls. I don't even have an ad blocker on this device.
- SheinhardtWigCo 7y agoI understand why the admins don’t want to ban links with paywalls or ad-blocker walls, but it would better if these links at least had some indication that they are inaccessible with reasonable privacy settings enabled. I don’t want to vote for this behavior by giving them page views if I can help it, but by the time I know the site is walled off, it’s too late - I’ve already helped to pad their numbers. This one is egregious because it pops a modal dialog with a dummy “X” button.
- Aloha 7y agoMaybe I'm out of touch, but why is this a big deal - the Gas and Electric side of every combined utility I've worked with are very separate business units, with differing sales forces, policies and completely different regulatory regimes.
- ip26 7y agoAs a non-Californian it sometimes look like there is a body hard at work scapegoating PG&E. Not that they are blameless, but I think there's a lot of blame to go around and the voters & government do not want to consider their own contributions to the problem.
- notadoc 7y agoWhat specific blame do you put on the voters and government?
- ip26 7y agoForestry management decisions (not allowing enough controlled burns, underfunding manual brush clearing), unwillingness to pay for buried powerlines, poor development planning in towns on the wildland-urban interface, lax wildfire building codes, no real enforcement of defensible space rules, inability to cope with even brief power outages during high risk periods... PG&E was holding the match, but the public & the government built the tinderbox IMO.
- s1artibartfast 7y agoOne partial explanation is a portion of the public and government that want to take control of the infrastructure from PG&E and make it state owned.
- coldcode 7y agoClickbait. It's like complaining about the Army when an AF plane crashes.
- cryptozeus 7y agoSeems like. Hit piece....they were from has side of things, what would they have done anyway ?.....“PG&E confirmed that 10 to 12 employees on the gas side of the business were mingling with 50 to 60 of their top customers at a winery in Sonoma County on Monday and Tuesday.”
- s1artibartfast 7y agoYeah, Most of the coverage of the outage has been complete garbage fueling and fueled by public resentment. I was listening to NPR forum yesterday and people were calling in and complaining that PG&E was continuing their tree trimming activities during the outage. The expert panel empathized with caller outrage opposed to pointing out trimming is countionious activity.
- GoodJokes 7y agoDuh, they are rich. It is their normal day to day lifestyle.
- tzm 7y agoPersonally, I'd gladly go without power for a few days if this helps avoid catastrophic wildfires and certain death. I'll take it upon myself to find a solution independent of PG&E.