Lupine Furmen wrote to Thumper <=-
The Wastelands BBS will be down for a couple of days due to PG&E shutting down power to my county. We are in a severe fire hazzard warning and shutdowns start at midnight tonight.....
WOW, How can they legally kill the power to an entire county??? How
can that even be legal, to say nothing of my ethical?
1. They're getting their asses sued for improperly maintaining their infrastructure and being the cause for fires that burned entire towns down, along with loss of life and the cost to the state to fight the fires. This
was after blowing up a neighborhood with a poorly-maintained gas line.
2. "Too Big to Fail"
3. I have to wonder if there's some internal sociopathy at PG&E that sees
this as retaliation for the lawsuits. Sue us? Fine. Next time you'll pay the price for our substandard maintenance - not our shareholders!
Spoiled food, lost productivity, lost tax dollars for schools - there will
be a huge cost. But, PG&E shareholders won't be affected.
Back in the Enron crisis, PG&E declared bankkrupcy, claiming insolvency.
Some digging revealed a $5B cash transfer to PGE Corp, the parent company. Woops!
... Do you ever see inconsistencies in your world?
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