The state's utilities commission announced Wednesday that it is fining Pacific Gas & Electric Company for what it is calling "flawed implementations" of its power shutoffs system in 2019.
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Sulphur Mayor Mike Danahay said âoutside interest from environmental groups that have been brought into the situation are trying to change the narrativeâ when it comes to plans for improving the Verdine Water Plant.
Danahay, speaking to members of L.I.F.T. who were meeting at Hixon Funeral Home in Sulphur, was referring to the Brockovich Report and recent social posts by that group. The following is from a May 15 post: âSulphur Drinking Water is NOT SAFE . not even close. Itâs not just the iron and manganese making the water unpalatable. Sulphurâs water is very corrosive with a pH of 6. It is destroying the infrastructure, your plumbing, hot water heater, fixtures and appliances.â
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Retired U.S. Foreign Service officer Bill Cook lost his home in Paradise, Calif., during the Camp Fire, the 2018 blaze sparked by Pacific Gas & Electric Company equipment that ranks as the deadliest and most destructive fire in state history.
Two and a half years later, Cook, 70, and his family are barely scraping by. Like Cook, the vast majority of the 67,000 PG&E fire victims included in a December 2019 settlement with the company have yet to see a dime. That s as lawyers and administrators have been paid millions, with the money coming directly from funds set aside to help survivors like Cook.
Courtesy Bill Cook
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Bill Cook s family home in Paradise, Calif., was destroyed by the Camp Fire in 2018. Like the vast majority of 67,000 fire victims of multiple PG&E-related fires, Cook s family has yet to see a dime. Courtesy Bill Cook
Retired U.S. Foreign Service officer Bill Cook lost his home in Paradise, Calif., during the Camp Fire, the 2018 blaze sparked by Pacific Gas & Electric Company equipment that ranks as the deadliest and most destructive fire in state history.
Two and a half years later, Cook, 70, and his family are barely scraping by. Like Cook, the vast majority of the 67,000 PG&E fire victims included in a December 2019 settlement with the company have yet to see a dime. That s as lawyers and administrators have been paid millions, with the money coming directly from funds set aside to help survivors like Cook.