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gnarlysasquatch | 6 years ago

So then when there’s a fire, some locality gets sued into bankruptcy?

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dave5104|6 years ago

Then so be it? Seems better than having an entity so large that it's shutting power off to large chunks of the state.

delfinom|6 years ago

What? PG&E aren't shutting off power because they are large.

They are shutting off power because there are massive windstorms hitting California right now that are hitting massive swaths of the state at once. Other utilities in California also are performing "public safety power shutoffs".

Even LADWP, the PUBLIC utility of Los Angles has commenced "public safety power shutoffs"

Mind you, the entire concept of "public safety power shutoffs" was 100% California state government approved in May.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-power-shuto...

dehrmann|6 years ago

They can always claim sovereign immunity. Something rarely mentioned around government management of X (utilities, health care, police, etc.) is that it's harder to hold a bureaucracy liable for any wrongdoing.