Anonymous ID: 219bda July 13, 2021, 2:15 p.m. No.14116336   🗄️.is đź”—kun

CA's Fire-Fueled Power Problems Prove the Pitfalls of 'Federal Land'

 

The spectre of wildfire-inspired California power outages again looms large this week, as Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), the company with a government-granted virtual monopoly over the state's wholesale electric market, announced potential fire-created outages across the Golden State.

 

Of course, the superficial narrative this time is different because the wildfires aren’t just in California - the narrative focus is in Oregon. But the spurious political “Climate Change Blameology” is the same, and so is the tenacious attempt by politicians to avoid the two key realities behind the power outages and fires:

 

The bulk of recent CA wildfires start and spread over mismanaged government run lands that are host to spark-shedding, government-blessed power corporation lines, and…

The fact that the government should not be running or “owning” these lands in the first place.

 

As NBC’s Alicia Victoria Lozano reports:

 

…the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon doubled in size Saturday to nearly 77,000 acres in the Fremont-Winema National Forest, interrupting three electrical lines that transmit power from Oregon to California, energy officials said. As a result, California lost thousands of megawatts of imported power and struggled to maintain operating reserves as temperatures soared into triple digits in parts of the state.

 

MOAR

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/more-ca-power-problems-time-because-power-lines-run-over-forestland-oregon