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PG&E has been charged with manslaughter and other crimes after its equipment sparked a Northern California wildfire that killed 4 people and destroyed hundreds of homes last year, prosecutors said.

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Let's put the executives in jail OOPS! - Top management and engineering teams quit and accept jobs in less dangerous states (with lower cost housing and less taxes) - Power grid collapses - Impossible to hire replacement executives - California enters the stone age

PG&E is 70% owned by the state of California and 100% funded by ratepayers So a 'fine' is utterly meaningless, since the fine will be paid by ratepayers or the State LOL

What prison will PG&E be placed in?

Just to be contrarian, the statewide electricity grid is a complex and difficult thing to manage. Many factors effect these fires, while ignition source is a major one, it is not the only one.

LOLOLOL AND THAT WILL GO NOWHERE...

Do Texas and ERCOT next.

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I remember hearing that there's a legal limit to how much companies have to pay out, a year, in legal damages. Think i heard it from from yourewrongabout podcast

Come on PG&E board president. Do the right thing. Sell the company to Sacramento and let California go dark.

They have never been held accountable for their decades of negligence. I doubt this will make any difference.

Yay! our rates got up to pay the damages.

PG&E is the embodiment of everything we most fear in a corporate entity: greedy, utterly without conscience, ruthless, and sinister. How long are we going to put up with them? They regard the deaths of a few people as the cost of doing business. It's chilling.

And absolutely nothing of consequence will come of this.

Never mind the state that says that you can’t touch dead brush or displace a fucking bug……

👏👏👏👏👏 As a Californian whose state is on fire I'm excited to see the charges. SDG&E has also been guilty of starting massive fires & passing their fines on to customers. Its past time to hold the bastards accountable. 👏👏👏👏👏

how do you charge a COMPANY with manslaughter? what does that actually mean?

JFC.

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Who goes to jail, though?

Wow..... you mean it's not global warming? Color me shocked. This is a first.

Things like this happen when corporations prioritize paying stock dividends instead of establishing a safe and reliable distribution network.

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IT SHOULD BE FIRST DEGREE MURDER!

Yet another frivolous lawsuit paid for by tax payers.

nice

Daaaaamn

Time for California to seize control of its power grid from an unethical and corrupt power company

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