Anonymous ID: be5dd9 Jan. 24, 2019, 3:09 p.m. No.4892494   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2778

PG&E says power bills could reach $835 a month if ordered to clear trees, inspect electricity system

 

PG&E warned in a new court filing that it would have to spend at least $75 billion, hire 650,000 workers — and increase monthly utility bills by a huge amount — if it’s forced to comply with a federal judge’s proposed order for a massive maintenance and inspection effort for its electricity grid.

 

The warnings by the embattled and cash-strapped utility, which has staggered to the brink of insolvency, were contained in a lengthy response ahead of a hearing in U.S. District Court next week.

 

Federal Judge William Alsup has signaled he may order PG&E to undertake a thorough inspection of its electricity grid and to launch a wide-ranging vegetation management plan ahead of the upcoming 2019 fire season in Northern California. Alsup is supervising the company’s probation connected with PG&E’s conviction for felonies the company committed before and after a fatal gas explosion in 2010 that killed eight and destroyed a San Bruno neighborhood.

 

“The resources required to comply with the (judge’s proposed order) do not exist,” PG&E stated in a federal court filing. “PG&E does not have the necessary funds. Were PG&E allowed to pass on the costs, the rate increases would be oppressive.”

 

PG&E estimated the rate increases in one year would be more than five times current rates in typical utility bills for 16 million Californians.

 

That means monthly utility bills would average $835 a month, according to the estimates PG&E provided in the court filing.

 

PG&E monthly bills rose on Jan. 1. Combined electricity and natural gas bills rose to an estimated $167.02 a month for the average residential customer, an increase of 0.7 percent. Electricity bills declined to a new level of about $112.08, a 1.5 percent reduction. Gas bills jumped to $54.94, a 5.1 percent increase.

 

https://governmentslaves.news/2019/01/24/pge-says-power-bills-could-reach-835-a-month-if-ordered-to-clear-trees-inspect-electricity-system/

 

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Anonymous ID: be5dd9 Jan. 24, 2019, 3:22 p.m. No.4892621   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2638

White House Preparing Draft National Emergency Order to Include $7 Billion For Border Wall

 

The White House is drafting an emergency order to include $7 billion for the border wall according to a new report by CNN.

 

The President is planning on pulling money from the Pentagon’s budget citing Title 10 of the US Code.

 

The White House is preparing a draft proclamation for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion in potential funds for his signature border wall should he go that route, according to internal documents reviewed by CNN.

 

“The massive amount of aliens who unlawfully enter the United States each day is a direct threat to the safety and security of our nation and constitutes a national emergency,” a draft of a presidential proclamation reads.

 

“Now, therefore, I, Donald J. Trump, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C 1601, et seq.), hereby declare that a national emergency exists at the southern border of the United States,” the draft adds.

 

The draft was updated as recently as last week, a US government official told CNN.

 

CNN reported that the Trump admin could pull $681 million from treasury forfeiture funds, $3.6 billion in military construction, $3 billion in Pentagon civil works funds, and $200 million in Department of Homeland Security funds, the official said.

 

The declaration will be challenged in court and by the obstructionist Democrats in Congress.

 

President Trump and House Speaker Pelosi have been sparring over border wall funds for weeks.

 

The government is in week 4 of the partial government shutdown and President Trump told Pelosi Thursday he will not cave.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/report-white-house-preparing-draft-national-emergency-order-to-include-7-billion-for-border-wall/