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As 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
by ip26 7y ago
As 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.