Judge Orders PG&E's Board Members to Tour Wildfire-Ravaged Paradise

[dixiegrrrrl]

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered board members of Pacific Gas & Electric to tour the Northern California town of Paradise, which was leveled by a wildfire that may have been caused by the utility’s equipment.

The judge ordered the tour as part of the utility’s punishment for violating its felony probation terms, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.

PG&E was convicted and placed on felony probation after one of its natural gas pipes exploded in 2010 killing eight people in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup says he wants the utility’s newly appointed board to focus the company on complying with new wildfire safety plans approved by regulators. Complying with the plan is the utility’s top probation condition.

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[BigmanPigman]

1. Wow, thank you Judge Alsup!

This reminds me of when the german citizens who denied knowledge of murdered people during the Holocaust were forced to walk past the open graves and piles of decaying bodies in the newly liberated death camps. Of course PG& E isn't in the same ballpark as the Nazis but the judge's idea is similar.