“The problem is that PG&E’s government overseers seem to have prioritized the state’s climate goals over safe and reliable service…California lawmakers last year enacted legislation to allow PG&E to socialize some costs of wildfire damage, so customers will have to pay many times over for its failures. The corporate utility future will be expensive.”
“There is one clear pattern here: PG&E is starting these fires. Global warming is not starting these fires”, said U.S. District Judge William Alsup.
Source: Daily Caller
But PG&E management blames the boogeyman of global warming. Now it’s headed for bankruptcy. Too bad management didn’t spent more time worrying about trimming trees and other real risks.
Continue reading California utility at fault in 18 of 21 wildfires in 2017
“Simulations show up to 90% of California’s power can come from a combination of wind, solar, batteries and geothermal… Beyond 90%, it gets difficult and expensive.” Not that any of this matters as the rest of the world is building 1,200 new coal plants. If California is the future, it doesn’t work.
What BURN MORE COAL is fighting against: “California now has the highest overall poverty rate in the nation, they write, and suffers from a level of inequality ‘closer to that of Central American banana republics.’ Much of this is the fault of California’s green agenda, which chokes off economic growth and has been imposed more as a theological imperative than the result of any sober, cost-benefit analysis.”
California Gov. Brown, the National Climate Assessment, and the Fake News media blame the California fires on “climate change.” This is all agenda driven for various reasons but the hard and tragic truth is human error/mismanagement and a lot of vegetation planted by humans in a hot, dry and windy state. So start with PG&E and then check out Gov. Brown’s inaction over his entire tenure. Also, take a look at 19th century pictures of the burned areas where there is almost no vegetation, starting with LA and surrounding areas. If we were PG&E management, we would pay more attention to the here and now of power line safety than the hypothetical future of “climate change.”
