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In 1971, the band changed their name to PG&E, following pressure from the utility company of the same name (ironically, decades after the band split up, the utility would start calling itself PG&E).
Aug 16, 2023 · There were other issues too – unhappy that their company name had been hijacked by a bunch of hairies, the real Pacific Gas & Electric forced the band to change the name – they became PG&E. Despite all this flux, the band were still incredibly popular across the US, and not just with white rock audiences.
According to PG&E's 2012 history timeline on their webpage, the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company and the California Gas and Electric Corporation merged to form the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) on October 10, 1905. [23]
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Penny Harper moved part-time to Hinkley from Los Angeles in 1974, buying 10 acres of land as a “weekend retreat where there was no smog or traffic or people.” She would bring gallons of water back to L.A. from the well on her land. She was told the water didn’t have to be cleaned with the scores of various chemicals used at big city water treatment...
Deciding whether to wait out the cleanup or take a buyout is a numbers game — residents have to weigh how much they have left on their mortgage, how much PG&E is offering, and whether they think the cleanup will take longer than their own lifetimes. A PG&E feasibility study in 2014 found that eliminating nearly all the chromium from some of the har...
When it comes to the ongoing water cleanup, Raudel Sanchez is the man in the middle. As the project manager of Project Navigator, the environmental management and consulting firm hired to act as the remediation plan’s independent review panel, Sanchez’s job was originally to interface with community members and the now-defunct community advisory co...
Getting the job done, as PG&E puts it, isn’t easy. Here’s how the cleanup works: Pumps dot the low-concentration outskirts of the chromium-6 plume, taking water from these areas to drip irrigate the fields of distractingly green alfalfa that make up a large portion of what used to be Hinkley. Via natural biochemical processes, the alfalfa plants co...
If Hollywood ever makes a sequel to Erin Brockovich, it might be about how the town of Hinkley recruited a world-renowned United States Geological Survey hydrologist to its side. To keep the town alive, Hinkley residents needed to find answers — to the timeline of the remediation, to the effectiveness of the chromium-6 to chromium-3 conversion, to ...
Jan 20, 2019 · When PG&E filed for bankruptcy protection in 2001, it was a direct result of massive market manipulation brought about by deregulation of the electricity sector of the California economy. As California businesses and residential customers began to experience brown-outs and black-outs, there was a mad rush to solve the problem.
Jun 18, 2020 · Pacific Gas & Electric Chief Executive Bill Johnson promised his company would emerge from bankruptcy a “reimagined utility.”
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Apr 2, 2020 · Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) is in the midst of its second bankruptcy. While the first proceeding in 2001 stemmed from California’s energy crisis, the current stems from the utility’s role...