{"id":178733,"date":"2018-09-03T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/03\/the-law-in-its-infinite-majesty\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T00:28:00","slug":"the-law-in-its-infinite-majesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/03\/the-law-in-its-infinite-majesty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law, in its Infinite Majesty\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is now a bill on Governor Jerry Brown’s desk, and given his corporatist bent, he will to sign it, that passes PG&E’s liability for the wildfires onto its rate payers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A bill requiring customers to bail out PG&E for liabilities stemming from the 2017 Northern California fires is now on the governor’s desk awaiting his signature.<\/p>\n

SB901 passed both houses late Friday night. The controversial part of the bill addresses the wildfires, including those that burned in the North Bay.<\/p>\n

Cal Fire investigators determined that 11 of the fires were caused by PG&E. They have turned those cases over to the corresponding District Attorney’s offices. PG&E could be on the hook for millions — even billions — in damages.<\/p>\n

“Before we know what PG&E’s liabilities are, we’ve already given a bailout and that’s wrong,” said State Sen. Jerry Hill. “What we voted on last night was to allow PG&E, if they are negligent and can’t afford to pay that liability, we will pass that cost onto ratepayers, make them pay for it,” Hill said, referring to PG&E customers.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a surprise:  once again PG&E has proved that bribing public officials gives a better return investments in safety and technology.<\/p>\n

The law is only for poor people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is now a bill on Governor Jerry Brown’s desk, and given his corporatist bent, he will to sign it, that passes PG&E’s liability for the wildfires onto its rate payers: A bill requiring customers to bail out PG&E for liabilities stemming from the 2017 Northern California fires is now on the governor’s desk awaiting …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[513,368,364,449],"class_list":["post-178733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-campaign-finance","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}