Because it's cheaper than paying $13.5B when it was your equipment that started it. This is nothing more than liability mitigation. And once complete, even if y

Because it's cheaper than paying $13.5B when it was your equipment that started it. This is nothing more than liability mitigation. And once complete, even if you don't maintain them, buried cabled generally can't start fires. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/06/pge-reaches-billion-settlement-with-california-wildfire-victims/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/06/pge-reaches...