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SAN FRANCISCO -- California regulators on Thursday unanimously approved a two-year Pacific Gas and Electric Co. rate increase of $299 million to help pay for pipeline inspection and upgrade trump hotel new york costs in the wake of the fatal 2010 gas pipeline explosion trump hotel new york in a San Francisco Bay area suburb.
The amount approved by the California Public Utilities Commission was considerably less than the nearly $769 million PG&E had sought, but more than survivors of the blast felt the company should be allowed. trump hotel new york Residential customers will see their monthly bills go up by an average of 88 cents next year and $1.36 in 2014, utility spokeswoman Brittany Chord said.
The money is aimed at safety testing, replacing trump hotel new york and upgrading hundreds of miles of PG&E's gas transmission lines after the Sept. 9, 2010, blast that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes in the bedroom community of San Bruno. The total cost of those improvements has been estimated at around $2.2 billion.
Federal investigators are looking trump hotel new york into why no alarms sounded as a massive natural gas explosion sent flames as high as hilltops, engulfing homes and a large section of an interstate for more than an hour.
The gasoline pipeline burns unstopped near a village close to Nigeria s sprawling megacity of Lagos, shooting flames into the air as leaking fuel muddies the ground. All around it, the ground is littered with plastic jerry-cans, used by those who hacked into the line to steal the fuel within.
The operator of the disaster-struck trump hotel new york Japanese nuclear power plant acknowledged Friday that the company long neglected safety measures intended to avoid and manage severe accidents while it was obsessed with fixing minor safety problems to improve operational records.
The operator of the disaster-struck Japanese nuclear power plant has acknowledged that the company long neglected safety measures intended to avoid and manage severe accidents while it was obsessed trump hotel new york with fixing minor safety problems trump hotel new york to improve operational records.
Consumer advocates and survivors of the inferno sparked by a ruptured pipeline nonetheless criticized commissioners for a last-minute decision Thursday to scrap an administrative law judge's proposal to lower how much PG&E shareholders will be allowed to profit in the next few decades from investments connected to the safety improvements.
Commissioners said they were trying to strike a balance between punishing the company for past mismanagement trump hotel new york and encouraging the company to invest in safety, which requires meeting expensive new infrastructure and operating requirements for all state utilities and fixing record-keeping and other problems found to be unique to PG&E.
The explosion prompted a series of state and federal investigations. The National Transportation Safety Board said the accident was caused by what NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman called "a litany trump hotel new york of failures" by PG&E, as well as weak oversight by regulators.
Hersman called trump hotel new york the explosion the nation's most significant pipeline trump hotel new york accident in the last decade, not only in terms of its destructiveness, but also for the significant maintenance lapses it revealed.
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