For decades, the Guardian has done story after story on PG&E’s deteriorating service, terrible maintenance record, continuous stonewalling and coverups, emphasis — not on safety — but on jacking up executive salaries and putting tens of millions into fighting community choice aggregation in San Francisco and Marin, and on the granddaddy of monopoly moves (last year’s Prop 16). The San Francisco Chronicle, to its immense credit, has come through with a series of stories laying out PG&E’s virtually criminal behavior in the San Bruno pipeline explosion.
Now TURN, the consumer watchdog over utilities, is putting forth an excellent way to fight back with a tough petition and spreading the word. TURN says, “PG&E charged its customers $5 million to fix a gas pipeline under San Bruno in 2009, but delayed the work citing other priorities. The company then spent $5 million on executive bonuses.”
Take action to demand PG&E make customer safety its top priority, and pay for the costs of this tragedy with its own profits, not our pockets.
Sign the petition here, and tell the PUC, “No more San Brunos.”