太平洋煤电公司的争议事件

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• 虽然当局尚未宣布正式的起火原因，但PG&E此前已向加州公共设施委员会（California Public Utilities Commission, CPUC）坦承，一棵树倒在该公司电线杆的一条电线上，可能引发迪克西山火。

• 周二（9月14日），近两百人对太平洋瓦电（PG&E）公司提起诉讼，指控该公司引发北加州迪克西山火（Dixie Fire），并要求其支付损害赔偿、惩罚性赔偿和律师费。

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• The Zogg Fire has been blamed on a leaning tree that prosecutors said had a cavity and had been marked for removal but was left standing at the time it fell, sparking the fire.

• In a filing in federal court in San Francisco late Wednesday, federal probation officials added allegations that the company violated its probation terms stemming from the 31 charges Shasta County prosecutors filed in September for the September 2020 fire that left four dead.

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• An ongoing dispute between PG&E and the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District over fire safety procedures has escalated, with PG&E filing a lawsuit seeking to overturn restrictions on its work procedures.

• In its lawsuit, PG&E claims the ordinance exceeds the fire district’s regulatory authority, infringing on jurisdiction that belongs to the California Public Utilities Commission.

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• 澄清 — PG&E

  PG&E officials said they were disappointed by the increased fine after “working diligently over many months with multiple parties” to reach the previous deal.

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• PG&E officials said they were disappointed by the increased fine after “working diligently over many months with multiple parties” to reach the previous deal.

• California power regulators on Thursday slapped Pacific Gas & Electric with a $2.1 billion fine for igniting a series of deadly wildfires that landed the beleaguered utility in bankruptcy.

• The commission approved a settlement in which PG&E will pay $40 million to the state's general fund and incur an $85 million "permanent disallowance" that will not allow it to recover costs from ratepayers for removing abandoned transmission equipment in its service area.

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• 道歉 — PG&E Corp.

  Bill Johnson, CEO of the utility’s parent company PG&E Corp., admitted to the event in an exclusive interview with The Chronicle on Thursday. He described it as a colossal mistake in poor taste and promised it would never happen again.

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• Bill Johnson, CEO of the utility’s parent company PG&E Corp., admitted to the event in an exclusive interview with The Chronicle on Thursday. He described it as a colossal mistake in poor taste and promised it would never happen again.

• Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Corp. CEO Bill Johnson has issued a public apology for a party the company threw at a Northern California winery for major clients on the eve of blackouts affecting hundreds of thousands of people.

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• 道歉 — PG&E

  we sincerely apologize for the insensitivity of the timing and location…given the two-year milestone of the 2017 North Bay wildfires.

• 整改 — PG&E

  Moving forward, we will no longer hold these types of events.

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• we sincerely apologize for the insensitivity of the timing and location…given the two-year milestone of the 2017 North Bay wildfires.

• PG&E is now also apologizing for a wine tasting event the company held on the second anniversary of the North Bay wildfires – in the North Bay.

• Moving forward, we will no longer hold these types of events.

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• The California Senate will investigate a California utility’s process for cutting off power to more than 2 million people to prevent wildfires.

• Last week, dry conditions and dangerous winds prompted PG&E to cut power to more than 700,000 customers to prevent its equipment from sparking wildfires.

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• 道歉 — Shady Oak Barrel House

  SANTA ROSA, Calif. (KGO) -- Shady Oak Barrel House in Santa Rosa is apologizing and explaining why it recently released a beer using a full curse word to describe Pacific Gas and Electric.

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• The brewery says the name is not intended to attack the honest hardworking employees, but the corporation itself.

• Shady Oak Barrel House in Santa Rosa is facing backlash after it named a beer with a disparaging word that slams PG&E.

• They received a lot of bad reviews on Yelp, Google, and Facebook which may explain why it posted on Facebook about the name.

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• The agreed settlement is subject to a number of conditions and requires confirmation by the United States Bankruptcy Court, the company said.

• California’s bankrupt power producer PG&E Corp said on Friday it had reached a $13.5 billion settlement with victims of some of the most devastating wildfires in the state’s modern history.

• The settlement, which the utility says was reached Friday, still requires court approval.