PG&E knew about its shoddy record-keeping of natural gas pipelines as early as 1992

[Newsjock]

Source: San Jose Mercury News

Raising new questions about PG&E's oversight of its natural gas lines, internal company memos released Monday show the utility was alerted nearly 20 years ago that its pipeline record-keeping system was disorganized and out of date.

The lack of documentation "may be costly to PG&E in the future and it may be difficult to defend," one PG&E records manager wrote.

The disclosure came on the same day the California Public Utilities Commission proposed slapping PG&E with a $26 million fine -- the biggest the agency has issued in more than a decade -- over the company's 2008 Rancho Cordova gas-line explosion, which killed one person and injured five others. In a separate development, the utility turned over thousands of pages of documents the commission had demanded detailing 55 years of weld defects in PG&E's pipes.

The memos from the 1990s, which said PG&E had stopped updating some records on its pipelines, were released by the PUC and are a key part of the agency's investigation into September's pipeline explosion in San Bruno, which killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county/ci_18319092

[Angry Dragon]

1. There are some people that should be brought to trial

for murder.
Until people that are in charge of corporations are charged with crimes that cause death, attempted murder, it will not stop.
They want to be people, then they need to treated like people. If they want rights then they also need to have the responsibilities.

[CreekDog]

2. Who needs paperwork? You just fix the lines that explode

right afterwards.

that's what they're doing here in San Bruno.

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