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"content": "\u003cp>Pacific Gas & Electric confessed Tuesday to killing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710884/list-of-those-who-died-in-butte-county-paradise-camp-fire\">84 people\u003c/a> by causing the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in modern California history during a dramatic court hearing Tuesday, punctuated by a promise from the company's outgoing CEO that the utility will never again put profits ahead of safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E CEO Bill Johnson appeared in a Butte County courthouse to plead guilty to 84 felony counts of involuntary manslaughter stemming from the November 2018 Camp Fire, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747485/cal-fires-official-finding-pge-equipment-touched-off-camp-fire/\">ignited by the utility's crumbling electrical grid\u003c/a>. The blaze nearly wiped out the entire town of Paradise and drove PG&E into bankruptcy early last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the mass deaths it caused, PG&E also pleaded guilty to one felony count of unlawfully starting a fire as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/b9a1b0ea20a2f76307cafcc6c64000bc\">agreement\u003c/a> with District Attorney Mike Ramsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Butte County Superior Court Judge Michael Deems read the names of each victim, Johnson acknowledged the horrific toll of PG&E's history of neglect while solemnly staring at photos of each dead person shown on a screen set up in the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No words from me could ever reduce the magnitude of that devastation or do anything to repair the damage,\" Johnson said in a statement afterward. “I hope the actions taken today bring some measure of peace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11710884 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1070764466-e1544221282927-1038x576.jpg']He also assured the judge that PG&E took responsibility for all the unnecessary devastation that it caused “with eyes wide open to what happened and to what must never happen again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson was hired about six months after the Camp Fire and plans to step down as CEO on June 30, when PG&E hopes to have won court approval for its plan to get out of its second bankruptcy case in 16 years. A mostly new board of directors recently announced by PG&E as part of a deal with California will hire his replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's extraordinary court hearing was set up to publicly shame PG&E for past practices that emphasized boosting profits to keep investors happy instead upgrading and maintaining its crumbling equipment to protect the 16 million people who rely on the utility for power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the fire's victims were elderly or disabled. They took desperate measures to save themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennis Clark, Jr., 49, was found in the passenger seat of a car his 72-year-old mother was driving. Their car was in a line of three other vehicles with bodies of victims in each one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara Magnuson, 75, was found inside her home, wrapped in a wet carpet in the bathtub in a futile attempt to save herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 20 family members of the people killed are expected to make statements in court Wednesday. Deems is expected to formally sentence PG&E either Thursday or Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said they discussed charging utility individuals but decided they lacked the evidence to do so, which means no one will go to prison for the crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Ramsey, Butte County district attorney\"]'We show that [PG&E] was absolutely criminally responsible for the death and destruction visited upon our friends, family and neighbors here in Butte County.'[/pullquote]PG&E has agreed to pay a maximum fine of $3.5 million in addition to $500,000 for the cost of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proceeding unfolded as PG&E approaches the end of a complicated bankruptcy case that it used to work out $25.5 billion in settlements to pay for the damages from the fire and others that torched wide swaths of Northern California and killed dozens of others in 2017. The bankruptcy deals include $13.5 billion earmarked for wildfire victims. A federal judge is expected to issue a final decision on PG&E’s plan by June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>PG&E Put Profits Over Safety, Grand Jury Report Says\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Butte County's district attorney also released a summary of a scathing grand jury report Tuesday, finding that PG&E officials repeatedly ignored warnings about its failing power lines, performed inadequate inspections to focus on profits and refused to learn from past catastrophes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We show that [PG&E] was absolutely criminally responsible for the death and destruction visited upon our friends, family and neighbors here in Butte County,\" District Attorney Mike Ramsey said. \"We uncovered a corporate culture that started sometime back, but specifically in the mid '90s, to squeeze every dime they could with creative risk management mumbo jumbo, and to find creative financing to get as much profit as they could. They basically put profit above safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E exhibited “a callous disregard” for the life and property of residents before its equipment ignited the Camp Fire, the 92-page summary said. “Through a corporate culture of elevating profits over safety by taking shortcuts in the safe delivery of an extremely dangerous product – high-voltage electricity – PG&E certainly lead otherwise good people down an ultimately destructive path.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report paints a damning picture of PG&E as an entity that regularly shirked accountability and was shameless in its unwillingness to learn from past failures. The San Francisco-based utility was convicted in 2016 of multiple federal felonies after one of its gas transmission lines exploded in San Bruno in 2010, killing eight people. That tragedy resulted in a criminal conviction that put PG&E on a five-year probation that ends in January 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators determined the cause of the Camp Fire was a suspension “C” hook on a transmission tower that had worn through after decades hanging in the Feather River Canyon. The report notes PG&E would have known had it bothered to inventory the hook, maintain thorough inspections with qualified inspectors or even listened to its own employees. But its line inspections were designed not to detect flaws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11759835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679.jpg\" alt=\"PG&E transmission line towers on the Caribou-Palermo line are seen adjacent to the Feather River in Butte County, near the spot where the Camp Fire began. In February, PG&E said it's "probable" that its equipment caused the blaze, the deadliest and most destructive in modern California history. Cal Fire investigators later confirmed that to be the case.\" width=\"1020\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/PGE-Transmission-Line-Camp-Fire-1-1020x679-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transmission towers on PG&E's Caribou-Palermo line are seen adjacent to the Feather River in Butte County, near the spot where the Camp Fire began. In February, PG&E said it's \"probable\" that its equipment caused the blaze, the deadliest and most destructive in modern California history. Cal Fire investigators later confirmed that to be the case. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PG&E acquired the transmission line from the Great Western Power Company in 1930 and, despite realizing it was likely at the end of its life, did minimal maintenance and repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In essence, in 1930 PG&E blindly bought a used car. PG&E drove that car until it fell apart,\" according to the report. “A reasonable person has the common sense to know that service and maintenance become more important as the car ages and the miles accumulate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Catastrophic failure ... was not an ‘if' question; it was a ‘when’ question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, the report notes, a PG&E engineer requested $800,000 to replace a section of the Caribou-Palermo line, writing of “multiple conductor failures” because of aging equipment. The engineer noted “the probability of that failure is imminent due to the age of both the towers and the conductor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utility officials allocated $200,000 to the project, but the work was scrapped in 2009 against the project manager’s concerns that without upgrades, “we could be picking up these towers out of the Feather River Canyon when they fall over.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"pge\" label=\"related coverage\"]In December 2012, a transmission tower on the line collapsed, dragging down four other towers and damaging a fifth. A PG&E engineer recommended inspecting the other towers, which did not happen “consistent with PG&E’s practice of not following up on clearly established potential safety and/or maintenance issues,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors found the inspections and patrols of the Caribou-Palermo line were hastily done and conducted by inexperienced, untrained and unqualified “troublemen.” The company also routinely moved money for repairs to its capital budget so it could pass the costs to consumers rather than shareholders, the grand jury found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite being on probation that meant the company must not commit another crime, investigators said its negligence resulted in multiple wildfires in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it acknowledges it still has a lot of catching up to do after years of neglecting its equipment, PG&E maintains its electrical grid is far less dangerous than before the Camp Fire. Under a judge's orders, it says it has spent more than $1 billion trimming 1.3 million trees near its power lines and conducting exhaustive inspections for potential trouble spots. PG&E has budgeted another $1.3 billion this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are intently focused on reducing the risk of wildfire in our communities,” PG&E CEO Bill Johnson pledged after pleading guilty on behalf of the utility Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also indicated in court that the grand jury findings wouldn't say anything PG&E doesn't already know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our equipment started that fire,” Johnson ruefully acknowledged. ”PG&E will never forget the Camp Fire and all that it took away from the region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite PG&E’s pledge, critics fear more danger looms during an upcoming wildfire season after an unusually dry winter in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED's Lily Jamali.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E says that in the aftermath of its vast preemptive power outage in early October that it found dozens of locations on its electrical network where trees or equipment failures likely would have caused lines to arc — a condition that could lead to sparking wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s analysis, delivered in response to a directive from U.S. District Judge William Alsup, disclosed 13 instances of likely arc-producing damage in the fire-prone Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Pacific Gas and Electric Power Shutoffs\" tag=\"power-shutoffs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company had reported finding more than 100 instances of damage to the 25,000 miles of electrical lines taken out of service during the blackout, which affected about 729,000 customers in 35 counties during a period of extreme fire weather between Oct. 9 and Oct. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is possible that any one of these instances could have been a potential source of ignition had a PSPS (public safety power shutoff) not been initiated,” the company said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191014_15_things_you_need_to_know_about_pges_oct_9-12_public_safety_power_shutoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an Oct. 14 press release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release was issued the same day Alsup, who is overseeing the company’s criminal probation for violating federal pipeline safety laws, directed the company to tell him how many of those reported episodes involved damage that would have caused lines to arc and thus pose a dramatically heightened risk of sparking a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a brief report filed with the court Wednesday, PG&E said it found a total of 115 sites where damage had occurred — 74 involving wind-whipped trees or branches that had come into contact with power lines and 41 involving wind damage to equipment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility said 44 cases of vegetation-related damage and a dozen cases of infrastructure damage could have led its lines to arc. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing acknowledged that the company has no way of determining with any degree of certainty whether arcing would actually have occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has said that inspections following its most widespread preemptive blackouts, which began last Saturday night, have uncovered at least 127 instances of damage to its lines and other equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E elected to turn off power to 970,000 customers — an estimated 2.5 million people — to avoid sparking fires during a prolonged episode of high winds and very dry weather. 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Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday — and PG&E CEO Bill Johnson confirmed — that the utility will grant credits to the 728,980 customers who were cut off from electricity during the wide-reaching public safety power shutoff from Oct. 9 through Oct. 12. Newsom had suggested earlier this month that PG&E grant a $100 rebate to every residential customer whose lights were turned out and $250 to every business blacked out. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said at a media briefing Tuesday evening that PG&E was going along with Newsom’s request after considering some of the hardships it imposed on customers — specifically, the collapse of the company’s website and the woeful understaffing of its call centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11783884 label='Share Your Experience']“Some of the things we did in that didn’t go very well — our website and all those issues — and we thought this was probably a pretty good idea to show a little recognition to our customers of some of those things that didn’t go right, ” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says the credits will show up on customers’ next bill. Our back-of-the-envelope estimate of how much the credits will cost the company: about $90 million, based on a guess that 85% of customers affected Oct. 9-12 were residential and 15% were businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next fight over the shutoffs and their impact on customers: Whether PG&E and the other big utilities should be allowed to charge people for periods when their power has been turned off. Newsom and some state legislators have called for a change in state law to prohibit such charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Credit details:\u003c/em> Those who lost power in the later PG&E power shutoffs will not be eligible for credits related to those events, the company says, because: 1) it says it’s cured its communications difficulties and 2) regulators have approved the shutoffs as a means to head off wildfires. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the details on the credits: \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/2019/10/29/pge-statement-on-oct-9-public-safety-power-shutoff-customer-bill-credit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PG&E Statement on Oct. 9 Public Safety Power Shutoff Customer Bill Credit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=“medium” align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘Utilities must be held accountable and be aggressively penalized for their overreliance on [power shutoffs].’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Daily Plea From PG&E: Be Kind to Line Workers; They’re There to Help\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A regular feature of PG&E’s nightly media briefings is a plea from the company’s most senior executives for the public not to take out their frustrations on utility workers who are out in the field inspecting lines or restoring power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company leaders have said workers, including some who have come to California from other utilities across the nation to provide mutual aid, have been the targets of verbal abuse, threats and in some cases actual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday evening, PG&E Corp. 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So let’s make those workers, and all the workers, feel safe and welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Catching Up: Utility Regulators Will Investigate Public Safety Power Shutoffs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With much of California under siege from a rapid-fire series of windstorms and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11783228/with-massive-blackout-still-in-place-pge-considers-yet-another-preemptive-outage\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vast preemptive power outages\u003c/a> meant to prevent electrical equipment from sparking wildfires, state utility regulators announced earlier they’re launching a formal investigation into the blackouts and taking steps to try to minimize them in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission said the investigation will center on the increasingly broad public safety power shutoffs — or PSPS events — conducted by PG&E and the state’s other major power providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11782798 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-1175134929-1020x676.jpg\"]The agency will also re-examine how the utilities are using the shutoffs with an eye to reducing their scope. It will also take steps to ensure that the utilities do not charge customers for periods when their power has been turned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC says the inquiry will look into whether utilities — and especially PG&E – have complied with state regulations, raising the possibility the companies may face fines or other penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom applauded the CPUC probe — and said he’s hoping the commission curbs the extensive use of blackouts to manage the state’s wildfire threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to see the CPUC launch a total reform of power shutoff rules and regulations,” Newsom said in a statement. “Utilities must be held accountable and be aggressively penalized for their overreliance on PSPS, and the product of this investigation must be new rules and regulations to do that. I also want to see customers not charged for PSPS. It seems obvious, but under the current rules, utilities can do just that. 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