The explosion seen from Mandalay Tower
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The City of San Bruno has taken to Change.org to petition the California Public Utilities Commission to hold PG&E accountable for wrong doing which resulted in the gas explosion in 2010. On that fateful day San Bruno lost 8 residents to death and 66 more were injured while a whole neighborhood was ripped apart. In addition CPUC needs to also step up for accountability.
The City of San Bruno states “Faulty record keeping and negligent oversight by PG&E management and the California Public Utilities Commission led to the 2010 explosion and fire in San Bruno.
PG&E says they invested millions in its gas pipeline safety program,yet troubling discoveries demonstrate that PG&E still does not know what pipes they have in the ground. Company executives recently admitted to serious record-keeping errors and were sanctioned by the CPUC for failing to inform regulators of these problems on a pipeline in San Carlos, Calif.”
Devastation was all that was left.
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The petition reads as follows:
I urge you to hold the Pacific Gas & Electric Company and its shareholders accountable for the explosion and fire in San Bruno, Calif. and help ensure that a gas pipeline tragedy of that magnitude never happens again, anywhere.
State and federal investigations found that the deadly pipeline
Still smoldering many days after the explosion
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explosion in San Bruno, Calif. that killed eight was entirely preventable and did not have to happen.
Sloppy record-keeping and decades of neglected pipeline safety improvements are to blame for eight people losing their lives. Ratepayer dollars PG&E should have spent on pipeline safety improvements instead went to executive pay and shareholder dividends. For decades, PG&E’s leadership put their bottom line ahead of public safety.
Today, PG&E says they’ve invested million its gas pipeline safety improvements, yet troubling discoveries demonstrate that PG&E still does not know what pipes are in the ground. Recently company executives event admitted to hiding faulty pipelines in San Carlos. Calif.
Desolation where once families lived
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This is unacceptable.
Now is the moment to make our cities safe. We are demanding that you hold PG&E shareholders accountable by:
- Levying the recommended $2.45 Billion penalty and fine against PG&E SHAREHOLDERS for the devastating and deadly explosion
- in San Bruno. This penalty would require that shareholders – not ratepayers – invest in needed repairs to guarantee the safety of PG&E’s aging pipeline infrastructure. It would also ensure that money allocated for safety is used only for that purpose.
- Assigning an Independent Monitor to serve as a statewide safety watchdog, designated to protect public safety at the risk of future negligence by PG&E and weak oversight by the politically appointed CPUC commissioners with close ties to utilities.
- Changing the way regulators do business and ending regulators’ cozy relationships and the conflicts of interest with utility companies. Federal investigators identified these troubling relationships as contributing factor to the disaster in San Bruno.
We respectfully ask that that you consider these measures and help keep our communities safe from preventable future tragedies.
Sincerely,
TO SIGN THIS PETITION CLICK HERE
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