EDITORIAL: Ratepayers should not have to pay for utilities’ wildfires negligence
Last week in
Those fires killed two people and burned more than 1,000 homes. Investigators determined that the
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It's entirely possible that something other than downed power lines started the Wine Country fires in October. Even if downed lines were the cause, it's possible that
Californians should never accept the burden of paying for a utility's negligence, however. It's shameful that the companies try to shift that burden when their own failings contribute to a disaster. In the case of
Keep that in mind next time the utility runs one of its big public-relations campaigns to try to restore customers' trust.
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