Redheaded Blackbelt
A Senate Bill that would have increased utilities’ access to private lands and eliminated any possibility of landowner relief for damage caused by the removal of trees went down in defeat just a few days before the holiday weekend.
PG&E contractors have been working under a program the company calls enhanced vegetation management, cutting down trees around powerlines across the state. The program is ostensibly to reduce the risk of wildfire, though a Sierra Club white paper argues that aging infrastructure and uninsulated wires are the real dangers.
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