PG&E again: Law allows state PUC to keep utilities data secret

[Ernesto]

Just WTF does "PUBLIC" mean?

"Californians concerned about dangerous pipelines running underneath their neighborhoods are barred from obtaining government records about them by a 60-year-old state law backed by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and other utilities, a Chronicle investigation shows."

DOCUMENT DESTROYED!

After the September 2010 explosion of a PG&E pipeline in San Bruno that killed eight people, state regulators and PG&E officials couldn't locate a report detailing a natural-gas blast in 1963 that resulted in the heart attack death of a San Francisco firefighter and destroyed a home.

PG&E and the utilities commission both stamped it confidential under the secrecy law, records show. The commission later destroyed its copy, officials say.



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/11/27/MN8I1M091E.DTL

[truedelphi]

1. Thank you for this mind blowing information.

And because of this law, neighborhoods are blowing as well!

Meanwhile we are supposed to "trust" this utility that their smart meters are safe.

[Ernesto]

2. Good News!...... PUC pipeline secrecy battle heading to Sacramento

State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, said Tuesday that his first action when the Legislature reconvenes in January will be to introduce a bill to repeal a law barring the public release of most records at the commission without a vote of its five appointed members.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/30/BAPR1M5TJ8.DTL