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Weren't the power companies Public Utilities decades ago? Entities capable of making long term investments and maintenance, and paying for things like beating
by mjevans 2y ago
Weren't the power companies Public Utilities decades ago? Entities capable of making long term investments and maintenance, and paying for things like beating back the shrubs from transmission lines so that when they sparked in high wind situations stuff didn't catch fire?
- akira2501 2y agoNot detonating entire neighborhoods with dilapidated natural gas pipelines. Not poisoning entire communities and their wells with hexavalent chromium. Not having half your wikipedia page dedicated to Disasters and Controversies. There are other power providers in California that aren't nearly so horrific. It seems that publicly traded companies operating a natural monopolies on behalf of the public is probably just a bad idea.
- fragmede 2y agoThe Erin Brockovich case was brought 31 years ago, for damage done from a chemical used from 1952-1966. 1966 was 58 years ago. So I don't know about the rest, but as of 6 decades ago, PG&E were capable of grave harm and a cover up.