The Butte County District Attorney’s Office and Pacific Gas and Electric Corp. (PG&E) have reached terms on a settlement agreement that will resolve claims involving three fires that occurred within Butte County as part of the deadly and destructive October 2017 North Bay Fires, the Chico Enterprise-Record reported. The agreement will create a new operation, the […]
Following revelations by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) that its investigators blamed sagging power lines for sparking the deadly Cascade Fire in October 2017, the Yuba County Board of Supervisors announced October 24 that it would be suing utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. (PG&E) over losses the county suffered in
In what could be a huge blow to PG&E, a Federal court judge has ordered PG&E to explain any role it had in the Camp and Tubb fires. Why do we believe this could be a huge blow? PG&E has not been very forthcoming with information. For example, more than a year after the devastating
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While no one knows for sure whether PG&E caused the devastating wildfires in Sonoma and Napa Counties, all eyes are on this troubled and controversial utility company. Unfortunately, PG&E has a history of failing to properly maintain the vegetation around its power lines, and, in several cases, that negligence has led to severe and destructive
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