Nearly $ 20 million in PG & E OKD fines by the state PUC
firefighters are trying to Claremont Drive in San Bruno fire that had burned down the neighborhood. Believed to be caused by the blast destroyed the natural gas explosion in San Bruno, California neighborhood, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Ran: 9/10/2010 Daly City firefighter stands on top of the engine to map the inferno rages on Claremont Drive in San Bruno, which is suspected to ignite the gas pipeline explosion in the neighborhood. Helicopter, left, drops retardant material in the air, trying to remove the heat. Firefighters from San Francisco, on the bottom left is one of the many agencies that helped fight the fire with their trucks to monitor the situation and await orders. Below, a man silhouetted by the flames when he goes away from the burning home near Sneath Lane. Ran: 9/10/2010 Daly City firefighter stands on top of the fire engine to map the Claremont Drive in San Bruno, where a suspected gas explosion, fire in the area. Ran: 9/12/2010 Daly City f irefighter stands on top of the engine to map out the Claremont Claremont Drive in San Bruno.Fireman Drive in San Bruno tried to fire that had burned down the neighborhood. Believed to be caused by the blast destroyed the natural gas explosion in San Bruno, California neighborhood, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010.
state Public Utilities Commission Thursday unanimously approved a couple of fines totaling nearly $ 20 million for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. was unable to control the pipeline leaks in seven East Bay communities and lack of maturity to reverse the pipeline safety records. two larger fines, $ 16800000, comes from its recognition in December, it does not leak surveys of the federally mandated years of nearly 14 miles of gas distribution lines in Concord, Danville, Antioch, Pittsburg, Brentwood, Byron and Discovery Bay. Last month, the Commission administrative law judge dismissed his appeal the fine. PG & E would cut the $ 400,000 penalty, partly be cause it appeared the problem. “PG & E was a serious action,” Judge Burton Mattson said, and “potential public harm of these violations was great.” Mattson commented PG & E pipeline explosion in 2010 in San Bruno, which killed 8 people and one in 2008 which killed a homeowner in the Sacramento suburb of evidence that the company had a lot of warning signs of problems with your gas system. “Every quality control procedures for PG & E may have a clearly failed,” Mattson said. PG & E should check the neighborhood of the gas distribution lines for leaks every five years, but a few lines of Contra Costa County cities had not been verified since 1993, the company said. utility to make short-term studies, after that went to a public problem, and 23 leaks were found, one of which required emergency repairs. Bodies Total $ 16800000 838 fine will be breached in January. PG & E later admitted th at he was not to investigate further the 9-mile points of your system, but has not yet been cited or fined for each violation of the Regulation. Commission officials say the case is still under investigation. Nick Stavropoulos, PG & E vice president of gas operations, said Thursday that the punishment was too harsh. “PG & E understands that if we make a mistake, we must own up,” he said in a statement. “That’s what happened when our staff took a leak survey maps of the damage to our attention last year when we said our appeal, we believe that the fine is too high, as we did the right thing – .. At the prompt self-reporting violations ‘Commission voted against the $ 3,000,000 settlement, PG & E and the legislature agreed to in March 2011 to meet the deadline of its inability to find a gas-related safety issues.
agreement kept the company’s critics denounced it too lenient, and the Commission balked, the provisions that appeared to limit government’s authority. After all, the penalty was $ 3000000 was approved with no obligation. fine with the second and the third largest country has ever taken against PG & E gas safety problems, but the fine to exceed $ 38000000 2008 fatal accident in Rancho Cordova (Sacramento County). They pale in comparison to what the company is likely to pay for other problems that have contributed to the disaster in San Bruno. PG & E leaders recently said they would fine the government gas safety and record-keeping problems to $ 200 million. Timothy Alan Simon, one of the five members of the Commission, said Thursday that the recent fine was justified, but the process was slow and cumbersome. He said that he favors one solution for all matters relating to PG & E gas safety deficiencies. “I think the time for debate on these issues and the publicity has gone to unconsciousness, and it’s time to move forward,” says Simon.This article on page C – 1 San Francisco Chronicle
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