After choosing profits over maintenance, California utility giant forces blackouts on customers: https://www.salon.com/2019/10/09/after-choosing-profits-over...

PG&E Spent Billions on Lobbyists and PR Instead of Upgrades: https://theintercept.com/2019/10/11/pge-power-shutdown-calif...

John Oliver on utilities, including PG&E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-YRSqaPtMg

Can we stop just automatically assuming that the poor, beleaguered companies would definitely be acting in the public's interest all on their own if only it weren't for the big bad regulators? It really seems like, in 2026, there should be ample evidence to the contrary by now.

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hedora 2 days ago | parent [-]

Any news on what happened to the statewide “bury high risk lines” project? I get the impression it was very expensive, since PG&E was touting it, but the last time I heard (a year or so in), they had not yet buried 10 miles of line, statewide. This was a few years ago.

For reference, we have buried about 1000ft of line on our property (pg&e actively prevented us from burying an additional 200ft of their line that runs through trees and has been taken out by limbs since then).

So, we’re over 1% the statewide first year burying project. (Our lines do not count towards their total).

	▲	everybodyknows a day ago \| parent [-]
		Do you have to maintain a strip on top, free of any new tree roots?