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For starting over 1500 wildfires. this includes the camp fire. and that one pg&e pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter. for many in northern california, including me, pg&e has become a four-letter word. im just taking a poll of everybody i talk to. word association. pg&e. >> fire. >> corporate greed. >> outdated. >> outdated. >> fall guy. >> lacking. >> my word is accountability. >> accountability, yeah, that would be nice. fighting for that accountability is mark tuolumne, the...

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Multiple violations related to the san bruno natural gas explosion. >> back in 2010? >> uh-huh. >> 2010. >> so like any felon, pg&e is on felony probation. and the first order is commit no more crimes. in the course of their probation, theyve started multiple wildfires. >> during their probation? >> yes. >> theyre committing further crimes. i was just watching "goodfellas". >> if a person committed this, they would be locked up in jail. but you cant lock a corporation in jail. >> what really ups...

Infrastructure and wildfire mitigation plans but anticipated it will take many years and billions of dollars to complete, and guess who pays for all of that, the pg&e consumer, they charge us not to burn us down. and until that is in place, one of pg&es primary wildfire mitigation strategies is just shut the power off. because it is hard for powerlines to start a fire if there is no power, so pg&e does rolling blackouts regardless of the fact that some people need electricity to you know, surviv...

Federal crawl probation case. i want to help promote and protect accountability. i want to rehabilitate pg&e. one of the things we brought up in the proceedings is that pg&e continues to engage in criminal thinking. it wasnt just an accident. it was the product of recklessness. so if pg&e was a person, within their first year of incarceration, they would have had to have taken criminal thinking classes. they help you to stop engage in that criminal thinking in order to rehabilitate yourself. cor...

Wildfire mitigation plans, but its anticipated that these upgrades will take many years and billions of dollars to complete. and guess who pays for all that? the pg&e consumer. they charge us not to burn us down. and until thats all in place, one of pg&es primary wildfire mitigation strategies is just shut the power off. because its hard for power lines to start a fire if theres no power. so pg&e does rolling blackouts regardless of the fact that some people need electricity in order to, you kno...

Fire started when a c-hook on one of pg&es electrical transmission towers broke. this caused a high voltage cable to fall. the sparks from the resulting short circuit ignited the dry brush below. although pg&es records were unclear on specifics, it was estimated that the broken c-hook along with other components of the tower had been in use for about 97 years. yeah. >> they had inspected that transmission tower and had reported that they were going to replace the critical parts, but they never g...

Violations, related to the natural gas explosion in 2010, and so like any felon, pg&e is on probation, the first order of federal criminal probation is commit no more crimes, in the course of the probation they started multiple wildfires, as well. >> during the probation. i was watching goodfellows, sounds very similar. >> if they started different fires, a person, with lots of in jail but you cant lock a corporation in jail.>> what upsets people is that there is a pattern of pg&e doing inspecti...

>> people need to reach out to the governor, elected assembly members and senators, and demanded that the utility companies be held accountable.>> i would say holding them accountable is the least that we can do. not everyone is as hard on pg&e is me. >> pg&e?>> fall guy. >> fall guy? >> yes.>> too much blame on pg&e? >> yes, they didnt come with the policy to put out every fire ended with the force get out of balance. >> the fires might start with them but if we did a better job of taking care ...

Starting over 1500 wildfires, this includes it the campfire, pjd pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter, for many in northern california including me, pg&e has become a four letter word. >> a poll of people i talk to, pg&e, word association?>> fire. [ laughter ] >> corporate greed. >> outdated. >> fall guy. >> accountability. >> yes, that would be nice. >> fighting for the a cat -- account ability, is the executive director of turn, the utility reform network. >> weve been aroun...