PG&E probation ends, but judge offers harsh comments
Rather than fixing its system during its five-year felony probation, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. instead spent the time, which ends today, “on a crime spree” of negligence, causing 31 wildfires, 113 deaths, thousands of lost structures and a half-million charred acres, according to the federal judge who oversaw the probation.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup minced no words expressing his disappointment and frustration in eight pages of “final comments” about the expiration of probation.
Alsup said the court “tried hard to rehabilitate” the energy giant, but had failed. PG&E, he wrote, “will emerge from probation as a continuing menace to California.”
The huge, investor-owned utility serves about 5.2 million homes in California, including 4.5 million receiving natural gas, in a territory stretching to nearly Oregon and Nevada in the north and east to Kern County in the south.
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