The Daily Journal (San Mateo)/ Garance Burke/The Associated Press, 10/13/12. "Ratepapers gas safety cost drops."
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| Continuing clean-up of the 9/10/10 tragedy |
The money is aimed at improving record-keeping and safety testing of PG&E’s gas transmission lines after the Sept. 9, 2010, blast that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes.
The explosion prompted a series of investigations and new requirements for state utilities. Among them, the commission required state utilities last year to forecast how they would pressure-test or replace the untested segments of their gas transmission lines.
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| CPUC inspecting a gas pipeline |
On Friday, Administrative Law Judge Maribeth Bushey of the California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposed decision to have ratepayers cover about 55 percent of the company’s $2.2 billion plan. Read article.
Related - KGO-TV, ABC Channel 7, 3/19/12, Heather Ishimaura. Includes embedded video, 2:19 minutes. Assemblymember Jerry Hill said the real cost with interest is not $2.2 billion, but closer to $5 billion.
Related Fix Pacifica - PG&E articles (2), and PG&E, San Bruno articles (several, scroll down).
Posted by Kathy Meeh
4 comments:
how is this any different that what the city/Mary Ann did with the sewer spill fines?
We don't maintain the pipes that bring the natural gas to your house that pge charges you for. It breaks down and they stick the customers with the bill.
The pacifica sewer system breaks down and council charges the home owners to fix the system they never paid to maintain
Screw the consumer!
The absolute genius of the Pacifica approach is that we are charging the homeowners twice for sewer repairs their sewer tax dollars already paid for. Year after year this city used those sewer funds for everything but the sewer system. They'd still be doing it if it hadn't become illegal not long ago.
Of course its a ponzi scheme
Rob Peter to pay paul
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