{"id":2892,"date":"2011-12-02T18:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T18:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2012-03-25T03:24:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T03:24:26","slug":"californias-utilities-commission-and-commission-president-michael-peeveyare-lapdogs-of-pge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/californias-utilities-commission-and-commission-president-michael-peeveyare-lapdogs-of-pge\/","title":{"rendered":"Is California’s Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey PG&E’s Lapdog?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey
Former CEO of a Utility-Southern California Edison<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cNever believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.\u201d – Otto Van Bismark<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, today California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey officially denied being a lapdog to PG$E — “the $38 million fine should put to rest criticism that the agency is a ‘lapdog’ of PG$E.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Peevey was talking about fining PG$E $38 million dollars for murder (“a string of safety violations that led up to a Christmas Eve<\/strong> 2008 explosion outside Sacramento that killed a homeowner.”)<\/p>\n

As one Chronicle reader pointed out — the fine is trivial, PG$E gave $35 million to PG$E’s CEO who was responsible for the murder, Darbee, to retire.<\/p>\n

What’s worse, there is nothing preventing Peevey from approving making you and me pay that $38 million dollars in our power bills.<\/p>\n

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has a long and deep track record of rubber stamping anything any monopoly utility wants to charge. Worse, in PG$E’s 2010 murder of 14 people, the San Bruno pipeline Explosion<\/a>, CPUC<\/strong> staff wholly ignored decades of PG$E’s massive and deadly negligence and incompetence. All the while approving billions of dollars in profits for the evil giant corporation.<\/p>\n

(Incidentally, If you want to escape from the PUC-PG$E tyranny, take a look at how the town of Palo Alto<\/a> and City of San Francisco<\/a> formed their own power Utility and are no longer controlled by the CPUC<\/strong> – or PG$E – though they do negotiate with PG&E and other suppliers for delivery of gas and electrics.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, I believe it is now clear the government agency charged with protecting California residents from giant energy monopolies — our California Public Utilities Commissioners<\/a> are indeed lapdogs to the giant energy monopolies including PG$E<\/u><\/i> and Southern California Edison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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