PG&E Criticized For Gas Pipeline Pressure Tests
PG&E is facing new concerns over a revelation that it intentionally spiked the pressure on 10 of its gas transmission lines.
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PG&E is facing new concerns over a revelation that it intentionally spiked the pressure on 10 of its gas transmission lines.
California regulators said Pacific Gas and Electric Co., owner of the gas pipeline that exploded in San Bruno last year, has a two-month deadline to make sure its records are accurate and up-to-date.
A Peninsula assemblyman criticized the California Public Utilities Commission for allowing safety lapses before the San Bruno explosion that killed 8 people and destroyed dozens of homes.
A much anticipated report from the California Council on Science and Technology confirms no significant health impacts from SmartMeters, but some remain skeptical.
The utility made the announcement Monday, a day after the San Francisco Chronicle reported pressure increases to the legal limit may have weakened the San Bruno pipeline before it ruptured on Sept. 9.
A gas leak prompted the evacuation of four homes in San Francisco's Sunset District overnight, a PG&E spokesman said.
PG&E has acknowledged that it briefly raised the pressure on the gas pipeline that exploded in San Bruno to the legal limit two years before the fatal blast.
PG&E crews continued to work in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood Sunday morning where about 348 customers have been without power for more than eight hours, a spokeswoman said.
A power outage affected about 15,000 PG&E customers in Berkeley Friday afternoon, but service has since been restored to all customers, a utility spokeswoman said.
Nearly four months after a fatal gas pipeline explosion devastated San Bruno, residents are asking city leaders to immediately distribute the donations that flooded in after the disaster.
City officials in San Bruno held a meeting Wednesday night to determine how best to distribute $380,000 in donations made to victims of the Sept. 9 gas pipeline explosion and fire.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said it will not comply with Marin County's moratorium on the installation of wireless utility meters.
Pacific Gas and Electric has been told to stop installing SmartMeters in unincorporated Marin County.
A Bay Area lawmaker is vowing to re-introduce her pipeline safety bill when the new Congress convenes this week.
Federal investigators have issued seven safety recommendations in the wake of last year's deadly gas pipeline blast in a San Francisco suburb.
Electricity bills for some Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers will climb slightly in the new year while others will see their rates decline.
Two women were arrested in Inverness Park in unincorporated Marin County Wednesday in a protest against PG&E's installation of SmartMeters.
Federal investigators may subpoena witnesses to testify in Washington about the deadly Pacific Gas & Electric Co. natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno.
A May audit by the California Public Utilities Commission has brought the way Pacific Gas and Electric inspects most of its high pressure natural gas pipelines into question.
An outage knocked out power to thousands of PG&E customers in Half Moon Bay and Hollister Saturday evening.
Power has been restored Saturday morning to more than 1,500 PG&E customers on the Peninsula who were affected by two separate outages in Redwood City and Belmont overnight, a utility spokesman said.
Three homes damaged in the massive gas explosion fire that were not initially slated for demolition will have to be bulldozed, city officials said Thursday.
A state safety inspector advised Pacific Gas and Electric more than a year before the deadly San Bruno explosion that the utility was not properly testing for corrosion and weakness on its pipelines.
A group of women gathered at a PG&E office in San Rafael on Tuesday to protest the utility's installation of SmartMeters in Marin County.
A gas pipeline that ruptured and caused the deadly San Bruno explosion showed no signs of corrosion and wasn't dented or leaking, federal accident investigators said Tuesday.
