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Since my house narrowly avoided the #pgeshutdown, I figured I'll use my desktop to give a rundown of the whole deal with not just PG&E, but California's fire problem.

The home of the Sierra Club and the first national park has a unique history of environmental destruction

First of all, it's not just fires. In San Bruno, the original home of YouTube, a PG&E gas pipe exploded in 2010. It was big enough to make a small earthquake

8 people were killed, and dozens injured, leaving a scene you'd expect to see in a Fallout title
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno…

This was completely preventable. The pipe needed replacing because it was a patchwork of varying thicknesses with a weld running the length. It was the load-bearing drywall of welding jobs.

PG&E was indicted with lying to the Nat'l Transportation Safety Board, and much more

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Joe Khalil

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“Terrible management...” Governor Gavin Newsom went IN on PG&E today on power shut-offs, poor management and the utility’s aging infrastructure. I don’t remember the Governor ever being this harsh on the utility #PSPS #PGEpowershutdown @FOX40

@FOX40

Republicans and Democrats in california have been equally critical of PG&E during these recent power-Shutoffs. Here’s (R) Assemblyman James Gallagher, making basically the same argument we heard from the governor #pgeshutdown #PSPS @FOX40

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@FOX40 We were at Cal OES tonight-team members are monitoring wind conditions and power outages in real time. As we left, about 10:35 pm, there were 494,602 customers statewide without power. PG&E has been saying up to 800,000 could have their power shut off #pgeshutdown #PSPS @FOX40

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