Pg&e fined

• SAN FRANCISCO — State regulators plan to fine Pacific Gas Electric Co. $16.8 million for failing to perform gas leak surveys in the wake of a deadly pipeline explosion in a San Francisco suburb in 2010.
(comcast.net)
• Exercising new powers to penalize utility companies following the deadly 2010 San Bruno disaster, state regulators on Friday fined PGE nearly $16.8 million for failing to check for leaks in several miles of East Bay natural gas pipelines.
(San Jose Mercury News)
• Separately, the commission fined PGE $100,000 for failing to comply with environmental mitigation measures when it built a substation in Bakersfield.
(Vacaville Reporter)