California utility to shut off power for nearly 1 million customers due to wildfire risk

John Farley said:
News flash, Marc, they do have prescribed burns in California. And if you are going to claim that the state, as opposed to PGE's management, is responsible for the lack of preventive maintenance, please post a link to some evidence for that claim.
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John - I'm not trying to stir shit, but I'm making an educated guess that PGE just cant do what they are doing without approval from some from of government body.

Also, my commentary is mostly just a joke against California, because they do stupid things.

We're allowed to have some brevity on this site right? Or are we all supposed to be super serious scientists?
 
Marc R. O'Leary said:
Also, my commentary is mostly just a joke against California, because they do stupid things.

We're allowed to have some brevity on this site right? Or are we all supposed to be super serious scientists?
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I went back and re-read your post, and on re-reading it still sounds more like polemics than humor to me. I think when you make claims like "other states have prescribed burns" as if California doesn't and "It's not global warming", a little in the way of facts or science to back it up would be good. But hey, maybe I am just old-fashioned in my thinking, so joke on.
 
Interpret it how you will, it clearly did nothing to help. Perhaps anecdotally it prevented "some" fires from "maybe" happening, but clearly their plan, that this thread is based on, failed.

"It's not global warming" as in GW didn't make PGE turn off the power. Their involvement in last years deadly fires did. Why does everyone jump up peoples asses when they say anything about global warming? What I said was to discard GW completely, in this context, as the reason/an excuse for the original article and subsequent actions by a power company. Slightly different scale of action being discussed. So no, I can't prove that PGE shut down power because of global warming as opposed to trying to cover their asses from another batch of huge lawsuits.

FFS.
 
Unreliable power is hell for economic development. It's not about climate change, which people do influence. It's about maintaining ROW right of way. Big fail!
 
Climate change is DEFINITELY increasing the wildfire risk in California.

And regarding power - it's less about ROW and more about maintaining the infrastructure itself. A power line falling on dry grass will burn just as fast as one falling on uncleared brush.
 
And really the biggest issue (and this is true for hurricanes, floods, etc.) is building where we shouldn't. FAR too much construction happens in areas prone to wildfire, and then people get upset when they are told they can't build there - so they sue, win the right to build, get taxpayer funded insurance, their house burns, and you and I pay them to build back. Seems like a cycle we should break :)
 
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