A big part of the problem is this the legal fiction of "personhood" of corporations, which are nothing more than a piece of paper in a filing drawer in the office of the Secretary of State. If corporate officers carried personal responsibility for the actions of the companies they control, many of the abuses would stop. Blame the misuse of a head note added by a court reporter in the case of _Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific R. Co.,_ 118 U.S. 394 (1886) for starting this mess. The head note wasn't even an official part of the court decision. Until a case comes along that allows the Supreme Court of the United States to issue a ruling that abolishes or restricts personhood for corporations, state courts could interpret the personhood status so that convicted corporations temporarily lose their right to lobby and donate money to politicians, just as flesh-and-blood citizens lose their right to vote until their sentence is served.
What good are state inspectors in a state where the government doesn't care about the people only how much money that they can bilk out of the populace. Graft. But then what difference does it make to a dictator.
Or, build power lines like they do in the Midwest, that can withstand 80 MPH winds AND were updated sometime sooner than 1942 (which is how outdated the Feather River Canyon lines are, where the Camp Fire started).
@@anitahamlin2411 But then “the people” become responsible for the liability of fire loss, including homes, businesses, and lives. That’s a huge cost. They also take on the cost of upgrades, repairs, and new building of the grid. It becomes the taxpayer’s responsibility.
These folks are too pampered not to be evil. What the people running pgne is a jail cell with a well endowed boyfriend.. every one of them. evil up the rear will surprisingly turn them into good boys.
When you are charging people an average of $1,000 a month for a WIRE going into a house , PGE could take some of that for maintenance, instead of shipping most of it to LOBBYISTS in California to AVOID doing maintenance.
I know this comment is a year old, but I just found these older episodes...my 2cents to your comment: part of the problem with maintenance is the cost of pge labor due to their union. Pge is not known for efficiency on job sites, and the rate of pay and benefits packages for pge workers is astronomical, which is good if you’re a worker, but not so good if you’re a greedy corporate shill...plus, new trucks don’t buy themselves every single year...I worked for a company for a bit that worked closely with pge in the field, always saw them putting in a lot of new lines and service, didn’t see much repair work of old lines and service, both electric and gas jobs.
@@TheFrogfeeder You're right. Internal structures suck up a lot of momentum. The real problem is the voters wanting this clean energy garbage because of their lack of any research. Does anyone know that as bad as the Calii infrastructure is - CALI IS THE LARGEST IMPORTER OF POWER IN THE US at 35% plus. Most of the imports are from coal and nat gas from neighboring states and some of the coal plants are owned by PGE and are placed out of state to get around the regs.. So while the voters are so smug amazed at how clean the air is and how great their green energy is, much of their power is from dirty coal.All this green energy is a total scam,enriching the politicians while the voters get screwd paying 1000 a month plus for coal power in their tesla.
@@fladave99 Additionally, millions of dollars is spent on green energy through vehicles for employees, investing in alternative green energy such as solar and windmills, and shutting down nuclear power plants which are efficient forms of energy production. All this distracts from repair of lines and replacing overhead lines with buried ones.
@@zuzuspetals9281 Down in So Fla we have mainly buried lines, concrete poles. I notices lots of very old wood poles as well in Cali. Cali imports 30% of its power from coal plants out of state. Alt green power is a myth. I feel for the people of Cali but they vote for this garbage while politicians get rich. I cant believe that the recall only has about 50% support. Vote for LOOKS you get CROOKS. Larry Elder 2022
PG&E should have to give their equipment to the people of California as restitution! Might I point out that didn't Gavin or anyone else working "for the people" ever think that public safety would be well served by policing the quality of our utilities?
An actual solution to this problem is to break up the power monopoly. Allow smaller corporations/companies to take responsibility for rebuilding smaller parts of the electrical grid. If those companies do a poor job, let those smaller areas vote for another company to come in. If you allow that big of a monopoly over that large an area, and it can donate to political campaigns? What do we expect? 😔😅
instead of PG&E getting fines as little as they are , make them having to sell off share of Assets to another Electric company, the wallet may get smaller
B.S. I just heard that this power company will not be charged for starting the 2018 fire and possibly started the Dixie fire. If this was a private owned power company they would be shut down and the CEO arrested.
Rittiman doesn't get it. PGE gave itself $235 million in bonuses while in bankruptcy with federal approval because it has the federal government over a barrel. That money didn't go to the fire victims or equipment safety inspectors to prevent the next fire. The U.S. Congress (Joint Committee on Atomic Energy) covered up a severe nuclear accident that occurred on 7-17-1970 at the Humboldt Bay Unit#3 plant. Fifty-nine commercial nuclear plants were under construction in America at the time so on 7-22-1970 the JCAE made the truth go away. How many children in South Bay Elementary School 450yrds downwind would have their lives cut short. Now if pressed, PGE could threaten to reveal the truth. Google "Humboldt Nuclear Accident" a 39min video and 66min radio interview.
Jerry Brown, Ronald Reagan, Grey Davis, Pete Wilson, and almost every past Governor have been in bed with PG$&E Gavin is just one of hundreds of politicians who have been bribed by PG&E
Pge should be forced to update and replace all their existing natural gas infrastructure, and relocate as much of the power wire infrastructure to underground as is possible while also updating and replacing all towers, substations, and wires. Then, as the actual punishment, they can pay to repave every every single city, county, and state road in their service area.
Yeah, I know 17 Billion a year seems like a lot of money, but in reality, they’d never be able to afford to get those projects done. Just like the government….
Corporations are run by people so charge people who made decisions leading to crime in addition to the corporation. Also there RICO laws to get crime bosses so use it against corporate bosses.
your map of PG&E's territory is a bit off. Redding, Roseville, Lodi and santa clara all have their own power companies. Theres also SMUD which covers sacramento area, as well as MID/modesto irrigation district, TID turlock irrigation district, and MerID merced ID.... Profit Gouge and Electric does not have customers in those territories. MID alone has 130,000 meters and TID has about 80,000... SMUD has hundreds of thousands more
PG&E stands for Pacific _Gas_ and Electric. The service map shown includes PG&E's gas customers, not just electric. As you pointed out, there are other electrical companies; I'm a SMUD customer but I also pay PG&E for gas. Roseville has their own electrical, but they are also serviced by PG&E for gas.
The power grid is not safe in most of America. Think of how old our grid is. Europe had a new grid done in the 1940s. Because of WW2. OURS IS SO MUCH OLDER.
I am a supporter of Gov. Newsom, but his response to the direct question of taking money from PG&E is poor. Our main problem with politics is the direct influence of huge corporations buying policy. This has to stop.
Why are you still a supporter of Gavin Newsome? As the late Lee Rodgers, host of the Morning Show on KSFO in San Francisco often said, "Never fall in love with a politician: They'll disappoint you every time."
Found this video today while our home is enveloped in smoke by the Dixie Fire. Started this year a registered Democrat but Newsom is like an icon representing why I switched. Kindly curious, given all our state has experienced this year, if you changed your mind about Newsom?
Is it actually PG&E that people should look at...?? Or should people look at legislation...? Yes PG&E definitely has blame here., But legislation protects them and that's part of why this stuff happens.
Almost a good documentary. Unfortunately over-simplified and dumbed down to an extent that it will not assist a solution.Good inflammatory prose, no constructive suggestions.
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A big part of the problem is this the legal fiction of "personhood" of corporations, which are nothing more than a piece of paper in a filing drawer in the office of the Secretary of State. If corporate officers carried personal responsibility for the actions of the companies they control, many of the abuses would stop. Blame the misuse of a head note added by a court reporter in the case of _Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific R. Co.,_ 118 U.S. 394 (1886) for starting this mess. The head note wasn't even an official part of the court decision.
Until a case comes along that allows the Supreme Court of the United States to issue a ruling that abolishes or restricts personhood for corporations, state courts could interpret the personhood status so that convicted corporations temporarily lose their right to lobby and donate money to politicians, just as flesh-and-blood citizens lose their right to vote until their sentence is served.
What good are state inspectors in a state where the government doesn't care about the people only how much money that they can bilk out of the populace. Graft. But then what difference does it make to a dictator.
Everyone please go around your county and take pictures of these poorly maintained lines!!!! Send pics to your leaders and keep for your records!!!!
Huge news. Quality reporting. On TH-cam for two years. Only fourteen thousand views? A glitch in the matrix or corporate suppression?
We need a new electrical grid with buried wires.
This should be a priority for the whole state! One that is modern and not owned by the corporation but the people!
Or, build power lines like they do in the Midwest, that can withstand 80 MPH winds AND were updated sometime sooner than 1942 (which is how outdated the Feather River Canyon lines are, where the Camp Fire started).
@@anitahamlin2411 But then “the people” become responsible for the liability of fire loss, including homes, businesses, and lives. That’s a huge cost. They also take on the cost of upgrades, repairs, and new building of the grid. It becomes the taxpayer’s responsibility.
You pay the fees and get the permit process started. Good luck.
START PUTTING THEM IN JAIL ! HOW SIMPLE IS THAT !!!
It's like watching Erin Brockovich and the evil cruelty that PG&E inflicted on Hinkley, CA
These folks are too pampered not to be evil. What the people running pgne is a jail cell with a well endowed boyfriend.. every one of them. evil up the rear will surprisingly turn them into good boys.
@VictoriaVictorialand Oh, please. You should do more research.
When you are charging people an average of $1,000 a month for a WIRE going into a house , PGE could take some of that for maintenance, instead of shipping most of it to LOBBYISTS in California to AVOID doing maintenance.
I know this comment is a year old, but I just found these older episodes...my 2cents to your comment: part of the problem with maintenance is the cost of pge labor due to their union. Pge is not known for efficiency on job sites, and the rate of pay and benefits packages for pge workers is astronomical, which is good if you’re a worker, but not so good if you’re a greedy corporate shill...plus, new trucks don’t buy themselves every single year...I worked for a company for a bit that worked closely with pge in the field, always saw them putting in a lot of new lines and service, didn’t see much repair work of old lines and service, both electric and gas jobs.
@@TheFrogfeeder You're right. Internal structures suck up a lot of momentum. The real problem is the voters wanting this clean energy garbage because of their lack of any research. Does anyone know that as bad as the Calii infrastructure is - CALI IS THE LARGEST IMPORTER OF POWER IN THE US at 35% plus. Most of the imports are from coal and nat gas from neighboring states and some of the coal plants are owned by PGE and are placed out of state to get around the regs.. So while the voters are so smug amazed at how clean the air is and how great their green energy is, much of their power is from dirty coal.All this green energy is a total scam,enriching the politicians while the voters get screwd paying 1000 a month plus for coal power in their tesla.
@@fladave99 I agree with all that completely as well.
@@fladave99 Additionally, millions of dollars is spent on green energy through vehicles for employees, investing in alternative green energy such as solar and windmills, and shutting down nuclear power plants which are efficient forms of energy production. All this distracts from repair of lines and replacing overhead lines with buried ones.
@@zuzuspetals9281 Down in So Fla we have mainly buried lines, concrete poles. I notices lots of very old wood poles as well in Cali. Cali imports 30% of its power from coal plants out of state. Alt green power is a myth. I feel for the people of Cali but they vote for this garbage while politicians get rich. I cant believe that the recall only has about 50% support.
Vote for LOOKS you get CROOKS. Larry Elder 2022
PG&E should have to give their equipment to the people of California as restitution! Might I point out that didn't Gavin or anyone else working "for the people" ever think that public safety would be well served by policing the quality of our utilities?
An actual solution to this problem is to break up the power monopoly. Allow smaller corporations/companies to take responsibility for rebuilding smaller parts of the electrical grid. If those companies do a poor job, let those smaller areas vote for another company to come in. If you allow that big of a monopoly over that large an area, and it can donate to political campaigns? What do we expect? 😔😅
instead of PG&E getting fines as little as they are , make them having to sell off share of Assets to another Electric company, the wallet may get smaller
Hehe have all the assets of the ‘person’ include bonuses the bosses get.
Ah yes, look at all those eco friendly emissions. Good job California.
Corruption at its finest. Share this series with others so we can spread the info
B.S. I just heard that this power company will not be charged for starting the 2018 fire and possibly started the Dixie fire. If this was a private owned power company they would be shut down and the CEO arrested.
This is why I call them "Pig Guts & Entrails."
Rittiman doesn't get it. PGE gave itself $235 million in bonuses while in bankruptcy with federal approval because it has the federal government over a barrel. That money didn't go to the fire victims or equipment safety inspectors to prevent the next fire.
The U.S. Congress (Joint Committee on Atomic Energy) covered up a severe nuclear accident that occurred on 7-17-1970 at the Humboldt Bay Unit#3 plant. Fifty-nine commercial nuclear plants were under construction in America at the time so on 7-22-1970 the JCAE made the truth go away. How many children in South Bay Elementary School 450yrds downwind would have their lives cut short. Now if pressed, PGE could threaten to reveal the truth. Google "Humboldt Nuclear Accident" a 39min video and 66min radio interview.
Start with your Governor ! He would be considered as of " Taking a Bribe "
Jerry Brown, Ronald Reagan, Grey Davis, Pete Wilson, and almost every past Governor have been in bed with PG$&E Gavin is just one of hundreds of politicians who have been bribed by PG&E
A politician taking lobbyists money is nothing new. Part of the reason why businesses should not be able to donate to politicians.
Pge should be forced to update and replace all their existing natural gas infrastructure, and relocate as much of the power wire infrastructure to underground as is possible while also updating and replacing all towers, substations, and wires. Then, as the actual punishment, they can pay to repave every every single city, county, and state road in their service area.
Yeah, I know 17 Billion a year seems like a lot of money, but in reality, they’d never be able to afford to get those projects done. Just like the government….
How does this have so little views this is important!!!
Soooooo why is Newsom still governor? I guess most Californians are okay with this?
No Corporation is any better than the Quality of it's Upper Level and top Management .
Corporations are run by people so charge people who made decisions leading to crime in addition to the corporation. Also there RICO laws to get crime bosses so use it against corporate bosses.
your map of PG&E's territory is a bit off.
Redding, Roseville, Lodi and santa clara all have their own power companies. Theres also SMUD which covers sacramento area, as well as MID/modesto irrigation district, TID turlock irrigation district, and MerID merced ID.... Profit Gouge and Electric does not have customers in those territories. MID alone has 130,000 meters and TID has about 80,000... SMUD has hundreds of thousands more
PG&E stands for Pacific _Gas_ and Electric. The service map shown includes PG&E's gas customers, not just electric.
As you pointed out, there are other electrical companies; I'm a SMUD customer but I also pay PG&E for gas. Roseville has their own electrical, but they are also serviced by PG&E for gas.
This corporation is a person deal is strange.
But the attorneys will always get paid .
And now Dixie. What are you waiting for, California?
#RecallNewsom!
The power grid is not safe in most of America. Think of how old our grid is. Europe had a new grid done in the 1940s. Because of WW2. OURS IS SO MUCH OLDER.
Let's just see if you guys can turn it right
This coming up recall vote
California could buy enough shares of PG&E to control the company.
I am a supporter of Gov. Newsom, but his response to the direct question of taking money from PG&E is poor. Our main problem with politics is the direct influence of huge corporations buying policy. This has to stop.
Why are you still a supporter of Gavin Newsome? As the late Lee Rodgers, host of the Morning Show on KSFO in San Francisco often said, "Never fall in love with a politician: They'll disappoint you every time."
Found this video today while our home is enveloped in smoke by the Dixie Fire. Started this year a registered Democrat but Newsom is like an icon representing why I switched. Kindly curious, given all our state has experienced this year, if you changed your mind about Newsom?
How can l save the things i want to save for a longer period of time?
We need Newsom out now!
Is it actually PG&E that people should look at...?? Or should people look at legislation...? Yes PG&E definitely has blame here., But legislation protects them and that's part of why this stuff happens.
And who signed the legislation...
actual journalism on censor tube?
What about the Dixie fire think they started that fire this year anyways I think PG needs to be punished right now
It's called electricity
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Almost a good documentary. Unfortunately over-simplified and dumbed down to an extent that it will not assist a solution.Good inflammatory prose, no constructive suggestions.
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