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They wouldn’t let me get near it, but a neighbor let me go into his backyard. And from there I could see our house. It was still there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My kids are in counseling now, just to make sure they’re okay. For a while, when we’d see a sunset, they’d ask, “Is that the fire?” When we were driving around, they’d ask “Are we in San Bruno now?” I’ll say, “No we’re in Millbrae,” or whatever. They’ll say “Good, because the fire is in San Bruno.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It crystallizes everything in your life and makes you realize how you want to live, and how you don’t want to live, I guess. Seven days after the fire, my wife filed for separation from me. It’s been a nightmare year. I wonder whether other relationships have gone through the same thing. From the kids’ perspective, they might always associate this fire with the breakup of their family. I don’t know how to explain it to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ask, “Why was the fire on our house? Why did it come?” And I have to say, “You know what? It was an accident. Accidents happen.” But I tell them, “I don’t think it’s going to happen again. And if it does, we’re going to do the same thing. We’re going to jump in the car and run away.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch2>All of our San Bruno Stories:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/08/29/san-bruno-stories-i-didnt-want-to-die-but-then-i-go-whatever-i-didnt-want-my-kids-to-die/\">Part 1: 'I didn't want to die. 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But, he stressed that he's mostly concerned about losing an estimated $300 million in badly needed state revenues that his budget expected to get once Amazon complies with a new law that took effect on July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm concerned about anything that would reduce revenues going forward because we're in a very uncertain economy,\" the governor said after attending an awards ceremony for correctional officers in Sacramento. \"We need more revenues unless we're going to keep curbing schools, courts, corrections.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's Senate President Pro Tem Darryl Steinberg and Assembly Speaker John Perez basically rejecting the deal yesterday. 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"content": "\u003cp>Well that didn't take long. Here's a Republican National Committee \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0scZmVQXP_Q&feature=player_embedded\">ad\u003c/a> whipping President Obama on the collapse of Solyndra, the Fremont-based solar tech firm that received $535 million in federal loan guarantees. (Hat tip Chron's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=96638\">Politics Blog\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"480\" height=\"300\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/0scZmVQXP_Q\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not a surprise, really. When the company went \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/08/31/fremonts-solyndra-solar-tech-firm-suspending-operations-filing-bankruptcy/\">belly up\u003c/a> on Wednesday, we noted headlines like these: \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/white-house-backed-solar-solyndra-company-collapses/story?id=14420755\">White House-Backed Solar Energy Company Collapses\u003c/a> (ABC)\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Solyndra-Filing-a-Disaster-for-Obama-128816968.html\">Solyndra Filing a Disaster for Obama\u003c/a> (NBC Bay Area)\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video trail of Obama's praise for the company, which received a $535 million federal loan guarantee from the Department of Energy in 2009, isn't hard to find. To wit: \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"345\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/KYiJ-_K9NCo#t=02m43s\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans were already \u003ca href=\"http://gigaom.com/cleantech/republicans-investigate-loan-guarantee-program-solyndra/\">investigating\u003c/a> the loan guarantee \u003ca href=\"http://gigaom.com/cleantech/republicans-investigate-loan-guarantee-program-solyndra/\">program\u003c/a>, created as part of the 2009 stimulus bill, considered to be the world's biggest \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/us/politics/18obama.html\">boondoggle\u003c/a> by the GOP; in July, the House Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight and investigations subcommittee \u003ca href=\"http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-07-15/business/29776293_1_solyndra-loan-guarantee-overdraft\">issued a subpoena\u003c/a> for White House documents related to the Solyndra loan. And on Wednesday, Republicans on the committee issued this \u003ca href=\"http://energycommerce.house.gov/news/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=8890\">press release\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We smelled a rat from the onset. As the highly celebrated first stimulus loan guarantee awarded by the DOE, the $535 million loan for Solyndra was suspect from day one. Our investigation to protect American taxpayers has revealed that in the rush to get stimulus cash out the door, despite repeated claims by the Administration to the contrary, some bets were bad from the beginning. And yet, despite the red flags and vocal concerns this Administration continued to tout Solyndra as a stimulus success story, going so far as to have the President visit the plant last summer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is clear that Solyndra was a dubious investment, but DOE doubled down in March of this year and restructured the loan, possibly further increasing taxpayers’ liability. That is a question we want answered. In this time of record debt such disregard for taxpayer dollars cannot be tolerated. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Government Accountability Office, the investigative and research arm of congress, also expressed concerns over the loan program in a 2010 report. (Read the \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10627.pdf\">report\u003c/a> (pdf) here.) From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10627.pdf\">Washington Post\u003c/a> today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Solyndra’s closing has also raised concerns about the status of tens of billions of dollars the Obama administration has invested in other renewable-energy companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Rusco, a Government Accountability Office director who helped lead a review of the Solyndra loan and the Energy Department’s loan guarantee program, said the GAO remains “greatly concerned” by its 2010 finding that the agency agreed to back five companies with loans without properly assessing their risk of failure. The companies were not identified in the report, but the GAO has since acknowledged that Solyndra was one of them.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while the GOP isn't down with the whole clean tech thing, the energy around slamming the administration's early focus on green companies is probably going to be highly renewable until at least November, 2012.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/netflixlogo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/netflixlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"netflixlogo\" width=\"94\" height=\"94\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38971\">\u003c/a>In July, after the infamous Netflix \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-12/netflix-increases-prices-for-dvd-streaming-plans-by-60-.html\">price hike\u003c/a> for those customers who want the option of both streaming movies online and receiving DVDs in the mail, some \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201107140900\">tech pundits\u003c/a> told KQED Radio's Michael Krasny that the Los Gatos company's new \u003ca href=\"http://blog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-introduces-new-plans-and.html\">pricing plan\u003c/a> was meant to incentivize customers to ditch the discs and go totally digital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be a much harder sell now. The cable network Starz said today it won't renew a deal, expiring at the end of Feb, 2012, which gives Netflix customers streaming access to newly released films from the Sony and Disney catalogues. Starz is a pay cable network that owns the TV and online rights to those studios' movies. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=nflx&ql=1\">LA Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Premium cable network Starz Entertainment will end its deal to provide movies to Netflix, a surprise decision that will deprive the popular online video service of its most valuable source of recently released movies...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starz, which controls pay-cable rights to movies from Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures, signed its current agreement with Netflix in 2008. At that time, online video was watched by only a small number of tech-savvy young people and the estimated $30 million per year the cable network received was seen as new revenue that would have little impact on its traditional television business...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only other recently released movies Netflix gets for its streaming service come from Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer via cable channel Epix. HBO, which has offerings from 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros., has refused to partner with Netflix.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Update 4:35 p.m. Our news intern Nick Fountain just talked to Gartner media analyst Mike McGuire about Starz' announcement: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One could be cynical and think that what we're seeing is a couple of folks negotiating in the press,\" McGuire said, noting the deal doesn't expire until next February. But if the relationship does end up severed, he said, \"with Sony and Disney removed from the mix, one has to wonder if there wont' be some issues for the customers of Netflix at seeing what could be important titles from those studios not being available to them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we're going to see more [developments] like this as these online services are having to battle with a lot of the incumbents over licensing and content rights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire said some of the immediate drop in Netflix shares today may be due to programmed trades, \"where people were saying if the Starz things go this way or that way, sell. But I think the savvy investors are going to wait to see what actually transpires between now and February, 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On whether the Starz announcement was timed for the same day that Netflix is raising prices for some customers, McGuire said, \"Is that coincidental? Probably not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the interview below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Audio: Mike McGuire on Netflix - Starz Pt 1\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/nflx1.mp3|titles=nflx1]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mike McGuire on Netflix - Starz Pt 2\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/nflx2.mp3|titles=nflx2]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mike McGuire on Netflix - Starz Pt 3\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/nflx3.mp3|titles=nflx3]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the \u003ca href=\"http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=nflx&ql=1\">press release\u003c/a> from Starz: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Starz Entertainment has ended contract renewal negotiations with Netflix. When the agreement expires on February 28, 2012, Starz will cease to distribute its content on the Netflix streaming platform. This decision is a result of our strategy to protect the premium nature of our brand by preserving the appropriate pricing and packaging of our exclusive and highly valuable content. With our current studio rights and growing original programming presence, the network is in an excellent position to evaluate new opportunities and expand its overall business.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=nflx&ql=1\">Netflix shares\u003c/a> have dropped over eight percent after-hours since the news broke. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically and either coincidentally or intentionally enough, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business-headlines/ci_18796676\">today is the day\u003c/a> that Netflix users get hit with the big \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-12/netflix-increases-prices-for-dvd-streaming-plans-by-60-.html\">price hike\u003c/a> -- as much as 60 percent for dual streaming/mail customers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AP has run this helpful article on how to navigate the new price scheme:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\n\u003cem>How to prepare for Netflix price increase\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The toughest choice most Netflix customers usually face is figuring out which movie to put at the top of their queues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But millions of Netflix subscribers will be wrestling with a new dilemma as they decide how to respond to price changes that will hit the video service's existing customers beginning Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new system will impose substantially higher rates on customers who want to keep renting DVDs through the mail and enjoying the more immediate gratification of streaming video over high-speed Internet connections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few factors for Netflix subscribers to consider:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find out which day of the month Netflix bills you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click \"Your Account & Help\" on the top right, then look for the next billing date in the center. That is when the new rates take effect. For example, if Netflix doesn't charge you until the 22nd of each month, you still have another three weeks before being charged more to have both DVD rentals and Internet video. If you usually get billed on the second day of each month, you will need to make a change promptly to avoid being charged more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Know the new prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time since it introduced Internet streaming in 2007, Netflix is offering DVD-only plans. For $8 per month, customers can rent an unlimited number of DVDs per month, with a maximum of one disc out per time. DVD-only plans allowing two discs out at time will cost $12 per month and three DVDs at a time will go for $16 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cheapest package that combines Internet video and DVD rentals (one disc at a time) will cost $16 per month -- up from $10 per month under the old system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The price for an Internet-streaming only plan remains $8 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're among the customers who want to keep just one of Netflix's entertainment options, assess what you like to watch on the service and how you watch it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internet streaming is more convenient because there's no waiting for video to be delivered by the U.S. postal system. It also enables viewing on personal computers, tablet computers and phones, besides television sets. The negatives: It requires high-speed Internet access, which isn't cheap, and Netflix's streaming library is about one-fifth the size of the 100,000 selections in the DVD section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DVDs remain the best way to see the latest movies after they have ended their run in theaters. In some cases, Netflix must wait four weeks after DVDs go on sale in stores before they can mail them to customers, but that's far better than Internet streaming where the wait can last several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internet streaming is better for watching good documentaries (which sometimes are available at the same time as the DVDs), catching up on past seasons of TV shows and enjoying older movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like to watch series such as \"The Wire\" and \"Curb Your Enthusiasm\" that have previously been shown on HBO, stick with DVDs because those titles have never shown up in Netflix's streaming library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before abandoning Internet streaming, remember it is probably going to keep getting better because it is Netflix's top priority. Netflix has left no doubt that it intends to spend big bucks to make its streaming library more compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep some perspective. Sure, a 60 percent increase sounds outrageous, but it's only $6 more per month to have your DVDs and Internet video, too. Most people could cover that cost by cutting out one or two visits to Starbucks or some other store each month. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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Many of the recommendations are for new regulations or the toughening of old regulations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Radio’s Cy Musiker will be talking with South Bay Congresswoman Jackie Speier about the report at 5:30 p.m. Speier, who sent out many \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/repspeier\">tweets\u003c/a> from the hearing today, has been a fierce critic of PG&E. You can listen to that live on the radio or \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\">right here online\u003c/a>. Check here for an \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/radionews/\">archive\u003c/a> of the discussion afterward.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier posts\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe Bay Citizen has a really good wrap-up of the NTSB findings in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">\u003cstrong>live blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of today’s hearing: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To recap, the five members of the National Transportation Safety Board voted unanimously that PG&E’s deficient pipeline management system – from the 1950s until the present time – was the “probable cause” of the Sept. 9, 2010 San Bruno pipeline disaster, which killed eight people. Deficient oversight by state and federal regulators were “contributing causes,” the board ruled. PG&E’s response to the disaster and its lack of emergency preparedness increased the severity of the accident, the board ruled…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other findings adopted unanimously by Board: San Bruno’s 2008 sewer project did not contribute to the accident; The pipeline didn’t meet 1950s standards; The pipeline fracture began along an deficient weld; PG&E lacked a comprehensive plan for responding to such a disaster; The 95 minutes that PG&E took to shut off the flow of gas to the rupture was exceessive; Local emergency workers and agencies coordinated their response to the disaster well; PG&E’s post-accident drug and alcohol testing program was inadequate; There is no basis to exempt old pipelines from modern inspection rules; PG&E’s gas transmission integrity program was deficient and ineffective; And the disaster was the result of an “organizational accident” – ie, there was no single cause of the accident, instead it was the culmination of systemic failures within PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">\u003cstrong>Read more here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s a little taste of the kind of shellacking PG&E took today. After rattling off a welter of systemic problems delineated in the NTSB final report, board member Robert Sumwelt sounds incredulous when he asks one of the investigators on the panel, “how does an organization get to the point where they have all these deficiencies?” Listen below…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbsumwelt.mp3\">\u003cstrong>Audio: Board member Robert Sumwelt, bemused by sheer number of PG&E organizational deficiencies board found\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbsumwelt.mp3|titles=ntsbsumwelt]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 1:05 p.m.\u003c/em> Over the past year, the San Francisco Chronicle has done a lot of terrific investigative reporting on this story. 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From NTSB Chair Deborah Hersman’s opening salvo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today you’re going to hear about flawed pipe, flawed operations, and flawed oversight. It was not a question of if this pipeline would burst, it was a question of when.” (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbopen.mp3\">Audio of that here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.capitolconnection.net/capcon/ntsb/ntsb.htm\">\u003cstrong>Watch the NTSB hearing live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 10:48 a.m.\u003c/em> The Bay Citizen is \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">live-blogging\u003c/a> the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:45 a.m.\u003c/em> Here’s Hersman’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ntsb.gov/news/speeches/hersman/daph110830o.html\">opening statement\u003c/a>, and it’s a dilly. For those looking for a federally sanctioned catharsis to their frustration and/or despair over San Bruno, this might provide a dose. Here’s Hersman’s closing slam of both PG&E and its state regular, the California Public Utilities Commission:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This accident represents a snapshot in time, and we recognize that individuals in the system work hard every day – at PG&E, CPUC, and PHMSA – to keep our pipelines safe. But good intentions did not prevent this accident from happening, Opportunities were missed that could have – and should have – prevented this tragedy. We acknowledge that in the intervening months since the accident, much has been learned and commitments to change have been made. But we’re here today to talk about what led to the rupture on September 9, 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you will hear troubling revelations … about a company that exploited weaknesses in a lax system of oversight and government agencies that placed a blind trust in operators to the detriment of public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know now that this tragedy began years ago with PG&E’s 1956 installation of a woefully inadequate pipe. It was compounded over the years by a litany of failures — including poor recordkeeping, inadequate inspection programs, and an integrity management program without integrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first NTSB investigation involving PG&E. In August 1981, following a pipeline rupture in San Francisco, it took PG&E more than nine hours to shut down the gas flow. The NTSB found inadequate recordkeeping as a contributing cause in that event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in the investigation of a 2008 house explosion caused by PG&aamp;E’s gas distribution pipeline in Rancho Cordova, California, NTSB identified similar issues, including lack of quality control during pipe installation and inadequate emergency response procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, it’s Sept. 2010. Another explosion. Eight people killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you will hear about flawed pipe … flawed operations … flawed oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not a question of if this pipeline would burst. It was a question of when.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, on KQED Radio’s Forum at 9 a.m., an hour-long discussion on the NTSB final report. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\">Listen live here\u003c/a>, or to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201108300900\">archived show\u003c/a> later in the day. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier posts\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe Bay Citizen has a really good wrap-up of the NTSB findings in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">\u003cstrong>live blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of today’s hearing: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To recap, the five members of the National Transportation Safety Board voted unanimously that PG&E’s deficient pipeline management system – from the 1950s until the present time – was the “probable cause” of the Sept. 9, 2010 San Bruno pipeline disaster, which killed eight people. Deficient oversight by state and federal regulators were “contributing causes,” the board ruled. PG&E’s response to the disaster and its lack of emergency preparedness increased the severity of the accident, the board ruled…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other findings adopted unanimously by Board: San Bruno’s 2008 sewer project did not contribute to the accident; The pipeline didn’t meet 1950s standards; The pipeline fracture began along an deficient weld; PG&E lacked a comprehensive plan for responding to such a disaster; The 95 minutes that PG&E took to shut off the flow of gas to the rupture was exceessive; Local emergency workers and agencies coordinated their response to the disaster well; PG&E’s post-accident drug and alcohol testing program was inadequate; There is no basis to exempt old pipelines from modern inspection rules; PG&E’s gas transmission integrity program was deficient and ineffective; And the disaster was the result of an “organizational accident” – ie, there was no single cause of the accident, instead it was the culmination of systemic failures within PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">\u003cstrong>Read more here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s a little taste of the kind of shellacking PG&E took today. After rattling off a welter of systemic problems delineated in the NTSB final report, board member Robert Sumwelt sounds incredulous when he asks one of the investigators on the panel, “how does an organization get to the point where they have all these deficiencies?” Listen below…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbsumwelt.mp3\">\u003cstrong>Audio: Board member Robert Sumwelt, bemused by sheer number of PG&E organizational deficiencies board found\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Here’s reporter Jaxon Vanderbeken summarizing some of what the paper discovered:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cembed src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/823619053\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" flashvars=\"videoId=1134718001001&playerId=823619053&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are two recent reports by Van Derbeken worth reading:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/28/MN6C1KSGPC.DTL&ao=2\">PG&E missed opportunity to head off the disaster\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. knew in fall 2009 that an inspection crew had stumbled onto cracks and defective welds on the San Bruno gas transmission line near where the pipe ruptured at a similarly flawed weld 11 months later, but failed to check for such problems elsewhere on the line, company e-mails and documents reviewed by The Chronicle show.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/21/MN8Q1KIKM6.DTL\">PG&E knew of vulnerable welds in 2008, memo shows\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. knew in 2008 that the San Bruno gas line that later exploded and the network of smaller pipes it fed had multiple potentially at-risk welds, but decided to spike the system’s pressure so it could avoid the possibility of costly inspections, according to a company memo turned over to federal investigators.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Considering the challenges of the prolonged fire fueled by natural gas, the emergency response was well coordinated and effectively managed by local responders.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>If the grandfathering of older pipelines had not been permitted since 1961 by the California Public Utilities Commission and since 1970 by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Line 132 would have undergone a hydrostatic pressure test that would likely have exposed the defective pipe that led to this accident.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>There is no safety justification for the grandfather clause exempting pre-1970 pipelines from the requirement for postconstruction hydrostatic pressure testing.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>The PG&E gas transmission integrity management program was deficient and ineffective.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>The ineffective enforcement posture of the California Public Utilities Commission permitted PG&E’s organizational failures to continue over many years.\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe NTSB has concluded a nearly year-long investigation (final report should be \u003ca href=\"http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/2010/sanbruno_ca.html\">posted here\u003c/a> later) into the San Bruno gas pipeline explosion, and PG&E is coming under a lot of fire from the panel presenting the results today. From NTSB Chair Deborah Hersman’s opening salvo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today you’re going to hear about flawed pipe, flawed operations, and flawed oversight. It was not a question of if this pipeline would burst, it was a question of when.” (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbopen.mp3\">Audio of that here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.capitolconnection.net/capcon/ntsb/ntsb.htm\">\u003cstrong>Watch the NTSB hearing live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 10:48 a.m.\u003c/em> The Bay Citizen is \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">live-blogging\u003c/a> the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:45 a.m.\u003c/em> Here’s Hersman’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ntsb.gov/news/speeches/hersman/daph110830o.html\">opening statement\u003c/a>, and it’s a dilly. For those looking for a federally sanctioned catharsis to their frustration and/or despair over San Bruno, this might provide a dose. Here’s Hersman’s closing slam of both PG&E and its state regular, the California Public Utilities Commission:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This accident represents a snapshot in time, and we recognize that individuals in the system work hard every day – at PG&E, CPUC, and PHMSA – to keep our pipelines safe. But good intentions did not prevent this accident from happening, Opportunities were missed that could have – and should have – prevented this tragedy. We acknowledge that in the intervening months since the accident, much has been learned and commitments to change have been made. But we’re here today to talk about what led to the rupture on September 9, 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you will hear troubling revelations … about a company that exploited weaknesses in a lax system of oversight and government agencies that placed a blind trust in operators to the detriment of public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know now that this tragedy began years ago with PG&E’s 1956 installation of a woefully inadequate pipe. It was compounded over the years by a litany of failures — including poor recordkeeping, inadequate inspection programs, and an integrity management program without integrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first NTSB investigation involving PG&E. In August 1981, following a pipeline rupture in San Francisco, it took PG&E more than nine hours to shut down the gas flow. The NTSB found inadequate recordkeeping as a contributing cause in that event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in the investigation of a 2008 house explosion caused by PG&aamp;E’s gas distribution pipeline in Rancho Cordova, California, NTSB identified similar issues, including lack of quality control during pipe installation and inadequate emergency response procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, it’s Sept. 2010. Another explosion. Eight people killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you will hear about flawed pipe … flawed operations … flawed oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not a question of if this pipeline would burst. It was a question of when.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, on KQED Radio’s Forum at 9 a.m., an hour-long discussion on the NTSB final report. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\">Listen live here\u003c/a>, or to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201108300900\">archived show\u003c/a> later in the day. Guests include Congresswoman Jackie Speier, San Bruno Mayor\u003cbr>\nJim Ruane, and San Jose Mercury News reporter and managing editor of KQED Quest Paul Rogers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, live \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23sanbruno\">#sanbruno tweets\u003c/a> below, including a bevy from Congresswoman Jackie Speier, whose district includes San Bruno and who has been extremely critical of PG&E, and a couple from the company itself. A sampling of this study in alternate realities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://twitter.com/#!/RepSpeier/status/108550285483458560\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_38643\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 223px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/sanbrunozapata1SM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-38643\" title=\"sanbrunozapata1SM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/sanbrunozapata1SM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"216\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike and Tammy Zapata\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>September 9 will mark the one-year anniversary of the San Bruno pipeline explosion and subsequent fire in which eight people were killed and 38 homes destroyed. Leading up to the anniversary, Amy Standen of KQED QUEST is interviewing survivors of the disaster. This is Part Two of the series; you can \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/08/29/san-bruno-stories-i-didnt-want-to-die-but-then-i-go-whatever-i-didnt-want-my-kids-to-die/\">listen to Part 1\u003c/a> here. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter how fast or how hard you tried to move, the house just kept sucking you back in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Zapata family were in their house on Earl Avenue when the explosion occurred. Their home was damaged but not destroyed. During the fire, Tammy and her daughter transported their neighbor, Joseph Ruigomez, to the hospital. He'd been watching the football game with his girlfriend, Jessica Morales, who died in the blaze. Ruigomez was badly injured but survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/sanbrunostories2.mp3%7Ctitles=sanbrunostories2\">Audio: Tammy Zapata describes transporting a burnt neighbor to the hospital during the fire\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/sanbrunostories2.mp3|titles=sanbrunostories2]\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Amanda was sitting here on the couch, watching TV. I was cooking, as usual. See how all those big trees are like that? No matter how high up you looked, all you could see was fire. You couldn’t see anything. My daughter was so freaked out that she couldn’t move. And Mike kept trying to get her out of the house, he actually picked her up and like tossed her. It wasn’t so much what you could see at that point, it was the noise. The noise was so loud, it was deafening. You couldn’t hear yourself, let alone anyone else. It sounded just like a plane crashed in our backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were trapped. When you’re in a dream and you’re trying to run as fast as you can, but you feel like you’re getting nowhere like you’re in quicksand? That’s how it felt. No matter how fast or how hard you tried to move, the house just kept sucking you back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then when we got down the walkway, Joe came running up. He had no skin. It looked like he had a shredded t-shirt, but it was the skin all melted off him. His face was all white. You could hardly see features. In fact, he still had smoke coming off his entire body. When he tried to open the door to get in, he couldn’t. Because his hands were so badly burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was like Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. I ran stop signs, stop lights, I made left turns through red lights. But I’m telling you, God drove, because everyone parted waters for us to get him there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know we can’t use our street anymore. So every day that reminds you. Even if you think you’re going to forget it, you’re not. And the sound of all the construction; you know it’s people who’ve lost their homes and are rebuilding. But you can’t forget it. You’ll never forget it. You may learn to deal with it, but you’ll never forget the sounds, and the smells, and the rest. You just can’t.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's an eyewitness video of the conflagration, from the files of the National Transportation Safety Board:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cembed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/823619053\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" flashvars=\"videoId=1134470162001&playerId=823619053&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>All of our San Bruno Stories:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/08/29/san-bruno-stories-i-didnt-want-to-die-but-then-i-go-whatever-i-didnt-want-my-kids-to-die/\">Part 1: 'I didn't want to die. But then I go, whatever, I didn't want my kids to die.'\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/08/30/san-bruno-stories-he-still-had-smoke-coming-off-his-entire-body/\">Part 2: 'He still had smoke coming off his entire body.'\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/06/san-bruno-stories/\">Part 3: 'The kids ask, 'Why was the fire on our house?'\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/08/san-bruno-stories-i-knew-our-house-and-the-greatest-cats-in-the-world-were-gone-but-i-was-smiling/\">Part 4: 'I knew our house...[was] gone, but I was smiling...'\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/09/san-bruno-stories-she%E2%80%99s-screaming-into-her-cell-phone-and-all-i-heard-was-screaming/\">Part 5: 'She’s screaming into her cell phone, and all I heard was screaming'\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/09/san-bruno-stories-they-cut-corners-took-shortcuts-looked-for-ways-to-interpret-federal-law-in-a-manner-that-would-benefit-them-financially/\">Part 6: 'They cut corners, took shortcuts...'\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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