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This seems like a huge pr fail on the part of PG&E.

by fzzzy 7y ago

dv_dt 7y ago
Maybe not. If you read the portion posted by another comment, any shutoff is perhaps a big public sign that they haven't done their maintenance on the network yet.
- fzzzy 7y ago
  Sure, I'm well aware of their previous lack of maintenance, but if they really wanted to change the discourse about it and deflect the blame, "a judge made us do it" seems like it would be effective at redirecting public anger toward the government. I'm just surprised that PG&E, as a huge bureaucratic company, isn't spinning this story as hard as they can.
  - rubicon33 7y ago
    Do you really think that after the recent fires (camp, santa rosa, etc.) that a PR campaign attacking the government is a good idea? Not sure PG&E is in a place to be throwing stones...
- drdeadringer 7y ago
  Something a better PR campaign might be able to address. I'm no genius marketer, but perhaps on top of "please don't shoot our line workers" they could hype-train all the work that is actually happening. "See what progress we are making on our mistakes of the past!" type of message. Not sure how to say that without the needless reminder of how they got us all here in the first place, or if that's even possible, but there's got to be some type of spin out there... spin that I sure haven't seen.
  - cgriswald 7y ago
    They can't. They're doing something, but they aren't having a lot of success with it. See: https://www.kqed.org/news/11767619/monitors-spot-check-of-pge-wildfire-safety-effort-finds-missed-trees-recordkeeping-errors https://www.kqed.org/news/11767619/monitors-spot-check-of-pg... > In his report, Filip said that by late July, his team had inspected more than 1,550 PG&E vegetation management projects covering about 71 miles of the utility's power lines. That's a tiny fraction of the utility's more than 100,000 miles of distribution and transmission network. About 25,000 miles of those lines runs through areas the state has identified as high fire-threat districts. > In more than 400 cases, the monitor's team identified what Filip termed "potential exceptions" — nearly 3,300 trees that needed work or should have been considered for removal but were missed by PG&E's enhanced vegetation management program. Report: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6272392/Monitor-s-Report-on-PGE-Vegetation-Management.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6272392/Monitor-s...

This seems like a huge pr fail on the part of PG&E.

by fzzzy 7y ago

This seems like a huge pr fail on the part of PG&E.

Maybe not. If you read the portion posted by another comment, any shutoff is perhaps a big public sign that they haven't done their maintenance on the network yet.

fzzzy 7y ago
Sure, I'm well aware of their previous lack of maintenance, but if they really wanted to change the discourse about it and deflect the blame, "a judge made us do it" seems like it would be effective at redirecting public anger toward the government. I'm just surprised that PG&E, as a huge bureaucratic company, isn't spinning this story as hard as they can.
- rubicon33 7y ago
  Do you really think that after the recent fires (camp, santa rosa, etc.) that a PR campaign attacking the government is a good idea? Not sure PG&E is in a place to be throwing stones...
drdeadringer 7y ago
Something a better PR campaign might be able to address. I'm no genius marketer, but perhaps on top of "please don't shoot our line workers" they could hype-train all the work that is actually happening. "See what progress we are making on our mistakes of the past!" type of message. Not sure how to say that without the needless reminder of how they got us all here in the first place, or if that's even possible, but there's got to be some type of spin out there... spin that I sure haven't seen.
- cgriswald 7y ago
  They can't. They're doing something, but they aren't having a lot of success with it. See: https://www.kqed.org/news/11767619/monitors-spot-check-of-pge-wildfire-safety-effort-finds-missed-trees-recordkeeping-errors https://www.kqed.org/news/11767619/monitors-spot-check-of-pg... > In his report, Filip said that by late July, his team had inspected more than 1,550 PG&E vegetation management projects covering about 71 miles of the utility's power lines. That's a tiny fraction of the utility's more than 100,000 miles of distribution and transmission network. About 25,000 miles of those lines runs through areas the state has identified as high fire-threat districts. > In more than 400 cases, the monitor's team identified what Filip termed "potential exceptions" — nearly 3,300 trees that needed work or should have been considered for removal but were missed by PG&E's enhanced vegetation management program. Report: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6272392/Monitor-s-Report-on-PGE-Vegetation-Management.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6272392/Monitor-s...