#pg&e

[shiftythrifting]

Found in Seattle Japantown

[theinternetarchive]

pg&e workers photographed by merton doss, 1997.

[ellewantsrevenge]

some of you have never seen the 2000 film erin brockovich about a paralegal who helps the town of hinkley, ca sue the electric company that poisoned their ground water and gave them and their kids cancer and it shows

PG&E lawyer: Counselors. Let's be honest, here. Twenty million dollars is more money than these people have ever dreamed of.

Erin: See, now that pisses me off. First of all, since the demurrer, we have more than 400 plaintiffs. And let's be honest, we all know there are more out there. They may not be the most sophisticated people but they do know how to divide, and $20,000,000 isn't shit when you split it between them.

Second of all, these people don't dream about being rich. They dream about being able to watch their kids swim in a pool without worrying that they'll have to have a hysterectomy at at the age of 20 like, Rosa Diaz, a client of ours; or have their spine deteriorate, like Stan Bloom, another client of ours.

So before you come back here with another lame-ass offer, l want you to think real hard about what your spine is worth, Mr. Walker; or what you expect someone to pay you for your uterus, Miss Sanchez. Then you take out your calculator and you multiply that number by a hundred. Anything less than that is a waste of our time.

By the way, we had that water brought in special for you folks. Came from a well in Hinkley.

PG&E lawyer, refusing to drink the contaminated groundwater her clients admitted to polluting in 1987: I think this meeting's over.

erin brockovich full film on daily motion

you're welcome

[yuzukimist]

I feel like more people should be talking about utility companies implementing repeated and exorbitant price hikes for the sake of increasing shareholder profits

[deadpresidents]

Every minute of my 2023 has been spent without electricity so far.

But at least there's nothing going on that would interest a historian like, say, a Papal funeral being presided over by another Pope for the first time in historical memory. Or a rare contested election for Speaker of the House that is not only a disastrous, newsworthy mess for the incoming Republican majority (as I immediately predicted following Election Day in November), but has featured the added bonus of spineless Kevin McCarthy having his ambitions crushed and getting publicly humiliated over-and-over again.

It's a good thing I'm not missing anything like that, right?

I guess I should feel lucky since Pacific Gas & Electric's legendary incompetence and notorious customer "service" hasn't killed anyone this time around. But there's plenty of time for that to still happen if PG&E's repairs continue at their current pace.

Happy New Year!

[sweetfirebird]

So I live like, smack in the middle of the California wildfires-mostly-caused-by-PG&E-negligence zone, and PG&E's solution to the problem while they slowly, slowly, slowly, allegedly, replace all the old lines and pipes and shit that haven't been replaced in 70 or more years *screams internally* is for this safety shutoff thing. Basically, if a branch or idk a piece of garbage touches a powerline wrong, the whole thing shuts off. Then they come out, investigate, turn it all back on.

This is to prevent wildfires. I get it. It's happened three times so far this month and the month is barely halfway through and we have the rest of our long summer (through October, usually) to go.

*screams externally*

[justwalkiingthedog]

Pacific Gas & Electric - Are You Ready? (1972)

[andritambunan]

California wildfire survivors struggle to rebuild as settlement money trickles in

Inez Salinas, a Concow resident and Camp Fire survivor, recently broke ground to build a tiny home with the help of Tiny Pine Foundation, an organization that builds homes for wildfire survivors. Inez is among the thousands of rural residents displaced by the wildfire and many are still in limbo. “Each fire, the people from the previous fire just get forgotten,” she said. “Please just don’t forget about us.”

The 2018 Camp Fire destroyed 18,000 structures, killed 86 people, and left 42,000 people homeless and many jobless. Some survivors of California's deadliest wildfire continue to live in trailers, tents and makeshift homes nearly four years later as they wait for payments from a trust set up to compensate them. The PG&E Fire Victim Trust has paid less than half, or $5.2 billion, of the more than $13 billion owed to survivors in the two years since it was established, according to the latest data. Most are low-income homesteaders who were already living off the grid before the Camp Fire tore through the region and razed the entire town of Paradise. These communities are not uncommon in California and throughout the West, but they largely remain out of the public eye and seldom receive media attention. 

Inez received her first payment of about $60,000 from the trust earlier this year, she said, and used some of it to pay legal fees, buy materials for new property where a "tiny home" is being built and spent the remainder trying to make ends meet as a single mother. Salinas is owed about $200,000 total, according to the determination letter she received from the trust, but neither she nor her lawyer know when it will be paid in full. “I will fight and scrape by and bleed if I have to just to keep [my daughter, River] safe,” she said. “Everything I’m doing is to make sure she’s stable. I can’t risk her being taken away from me.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-wildfire-survivors-struggle-rebuild-settlement-money-trickl-rcna45049