I hope they can use some of this money and personnel on controlled burns and other fire prevention. We spend way too much managing the symptoms rather than the disease.
Good, but I feel like they let PG&E off with a slap on the wrist. I'm not 100% sure they were 100% responsible for that fire, but I do believe they were more negligent than they were fined for. Nothing "personal" against PG&E or anything like that but I feel like they could have had better safety regulations that may or may not have prevented that one big fire a few years back.
Is what should have happened. Instead, bankruptcy protection shed debts, and now they're more profitable than ever before... CPUC has failed the people it was created to protect.
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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 353d
I hope they can use some of this money and personnel on controlled burns and other fire prevention. We spend way too much managing the symptoms rather than the disease.
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 353d
Or we could just let sheep graze the hills. Would be a cheap alternative to guy prevention and would make some farmers happy too.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 353d
Yeah I think a lot more reforms are needed than just this, but I’m hoping this will play a part.
I’d personally much rather restore wild herbivores than expand livestock grazing but if the former isn’t viable then I’m open to the latter.
Chessmasterrex@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 352d
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 352d
Good, but I feel like they let PG&E off with a slap on the wrist. I'm not 100% sure they were 100% responsible for that fire, but I do believe they were more negligent than they were fined for. Nothing "personal" against PG&E or anything like that but I feel like they could have had better safety regulations that may or may not have prevented that one big fire a few years back.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 352d
PG&E went broke, with shareholders losing everything, and the victims ending up with ownership of the firm
zogrewaste_@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 352d
Is what should have happened. Instead, bankruptcy protection shed debts, and now they're more profitable than ever before... CPUC has failed the people it was created to protect.
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 352d
That’s good the work is not seasonal. The permanent workers should be 90% focused on fuel reduction and fire breaks.