1y ago

Texas' largest-ever wildfire that killed at least 2 was ignited by power company facilities, company admits

www.cbsnews.com

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The woman said in the lawsuit that the fire ignited on Feb. 26 when one of their poles broke ...
Do you know how old and rotten a lodgepole pine electrical pole has to be to break?????
Jfc. Keep up with your gd maintenance ffs!
- Replacing critically deficient infrastructure has been declared a progressive issue in todays overton window. So no chance places like Texas do it.
I swear, Texas’s grid is the sort of thing that would’ve been written out of a dystopian novel for being too cartoonishly evil.
- I know you're just trying to dunk on Texas, but Hutchinson County, where they're saying this happened, is part of the Eastern Interconnect, not the Texas Interconnect. Much of the panhandle is not part of ERCOT
- You could have said the whole state and I'd still be with you.
If the cause was due to negligence then some people at the company need to be involved with manslaughter charges.
- Oh you sweet summer child. This is America. People, even the corporations who apparently are legally people, never face anything but fines that they can easily pay off with excess revenue.
  
  ...and still have money left over to "lobby" for easier regulations!
  
  Is there anything I can do to help you not post defeatist stuff like this?
  At first, I wrote out a frustrated reply about how this kind of thing isn't helpful: telling everyone there's no hope.
  But you don't need me being mad at you. Can I donate to a campaign near you or volunteer some time? What can I do to help you have a sense that if we work together that we can actually change things?
Power companies and causing wildfires, name a better duo.
I sware half the fires around me are because of some electrical pole sparking.
- Jewish space lasers causing fires?
- The move to privatize critical infrastructure AND declare that businesses have the same rights as people is gonna be the downfall of America.

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