{"id":5813,"date":"2014-04-06T10:51:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T18:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=5813"},"modified":"2020-09-12T04:28:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T12:28:23","slug":"more-troubles-for-criminally-indicted-pge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/5813\/more-troubles-for-criminally-indicted-pge\/","title":{"rendered":"More Troubles for Criminally Indicted PG&#038;E"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5797\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5797\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5797\" alt=\"An aerial photo shows the destruction of the Crestmoor residential neighborhood in the City of San Bruno neighborhood following a September 9 PG&amp;E gas pipeline explosion.  Eight people were killed as a result of the explosion and inferno.  Photo via FEMA.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2014\/02\/20100911_120051_sbfire5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2014\/02\/20100911_120051_sbfire5.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2014\/02\/20100911_120051_sbfire5-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial photo shows the destruction wreaked on the Crestmoor residential neighborhood in the City of San Bruno following a PG&amp;E gas pipeline explosion on September 9, 2010. Eight people were killed as a result of the blast and ensuing inferno. Photo via FEMA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/rstone\/\">Ralph E. Stone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>April 6, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Pacific Gas &amp; Electric Company (PG&amp;E) was recently criminally indicted for twelve violations of the federal Pipeline Safety Act. No executives of PG&amp;E were indicted.<\/p>\n<p>The federal indictment follows PG&amp;E&#8217;s alleged negligence in safely maintaining its natural gas pipeline infrastructure which resulted in a massive explosion in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood of San Bruno on September 9, 2010. The resulting inferno killed eight people, injured 64, leveled 35 homes and damaged many more.<\/p>\n<p>The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which regulates PG&amp;E, may fine the utility as much as $2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>PG&amp;E enjoys a near monopoly over much of Northern and Central California with 5.1 electric customers and 4.3 million natural gas customers. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which has been <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150905104704\/http:\/\/www.sfbg.com\/2011\/05\/24\/secret-life-michael-peevey\">accused of being too cozy with the utilities it&#8217;s mandated to regulate<\/a>, allows PG&amp;E to charge 30 percent higher rates than the national average. As a regulated utility, the publicly traded company&#8217;s shareholders benefit from a guaranteed 11.35 percent return on equity, 10.5 percent above the national average.<\/p>\n<p>Regulators had approved PG&amp;E&#8217;s request for $4.9 million to repair the South San Francisco segment of the pipeline, but PG&amp;E spent the money elsewhere, and then in 2009 requested an additional $5 million from ratepayers to do the job.<\/p>\n<p>On September 20, 2010, PG&amp;E released a list of its top 100 aging pipeline &#8220;projects&#8221; in need of replacement or repair. The San Bruno pipeline segment was not included on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the 2003 record bankruptcy bailout that put ratepayers on the hook to pay PG&amp;E&#8217;s creditors and resuscitate the corporation? It was in addition to the $8 billion in previous bailout funds already paid to PG&amp;E by ratepayers since 1998, bringing the bailout total to over $16 billion. The bailout plan was approved by the CPUC and the Bankruptcy Judge despite accusations that PG&amp;E&#8217;s officers siphoned $4 billion to its unregulated holding company, PGE Corporation, from the $8 billion in &#8220;Competition Transition Surcharge&#8221; funds already paid to PG&amp;E by its ratepayers between 1998 and 2000.<\/p>\n<p>To add insult to injury, just weeks after handing out $50 million in bonuses while on the verge of financial collapse, PG&amp;E received judicial permission to award $17.5 million for a &#8220;management retention program&#8221; intended to prevent over 200 top executives from departing the company during the bankruptcy process.<\/p>\n<p>PG&amp;E should have let these executives depart and then hired a more competent management team, possibly saving the lives and homes in the San Bruno explosion.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty of the federal criminal charges, PG&amp;E will be on the hook for a maximum penalty of $6 million, chump change for PG&amp;E and its holding company.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is the possibility the Court will appoint a monitor for PG&amp;E&#8217;s natural gas operations. Perhaps the monitor will fire PG&amp;E&#8217;s executives. But, then again, any fired executives will likely receive hefty golden parachutes, courtesy of ratepayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Gas &#038; Electric Company (PG&#038;E) was recently criminally indicted for twelve violations of the federal Pipeline Safety Act. 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