Burning Questions

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1. SR Jones says:

   November 18, 2018 at 7:23 pm

   Some experts have it figured out: Make America Rake Again.

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2. Michael Anderson says:

   November 21, 2018 at 9:13 am

   There’s no question that better forest management, which Trump inelegantly described as “raking and cleaning,” is just one of myriad changes that must come to how Californians exist in the wildland-urban interface (WUI).

   Another piece is the construct of energy utilities that, particularly in rural regions, make our modern life possible. As Steve Frisch introduced here in a previous thread, State Senator Jerry Hill of California’s 13th district would like to begin the discussion on breaking up, and possibly moving to the muni model, both SoCalEd (SCE) and PG&E (PCG).

   This discussion will take up a tremendous amount of political oxygen in the room in 2019 in our state, and us hillbillies need to prepare for participating vigorously in that discussion. First question: what is Gavin Newsom’s view?

   https://www.powermag.com/public-power-and-ious-the-same-yet-different/

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   • Steven Frisch says:

     November 21, 2018 at 11:39 am

     Two things to keep in mind here…just transferring ownership of Investor Owned Utilities to Publicly Owned Utilities does not solve the bigger problem…safety is going to cost hundreds of billions of $$ and someone has to pay.

     https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/03/12/climate-change-wildfires-california-utilities/

     But second, Investor Owned Utilities are really at risk due to inverse condemnation rules which state that they are liable for damages eve if they followed all of the rules…in the case of IOU’s they have to get approval to raise rates…POU’s can just do it on their own.

     https://www.counties.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/inverse_condemnation_fact_sheet_league__csac.pdf

     Finally, the biggest problem; it makes almost no sense to any new IOU or POU to take on the cost and risk of serving many of our rural areas. If we just move ahead with busting up the IOU’s no one is there to provide service then …well…what happens? No electricity?

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3. rl crabb says:

   November 22, 2018 at 10:33 am

   https://www.chicoer.com/2018/11/17/editorial-camp-fire-the-tragedy-we-were-all-warned-about/?fbclid=IwAR25_tICmVjDCuH22DuohxYwS27S_RrTNfsPsWI8Xt9l8Rm_S-Mwh_YYkng

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