PG&E's Criminal Extortion Racket & California's Collapsing Infrastructure

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Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the ongoing saga of California private power company PG&E and how they held two million California customers hostage by deliberately turning off their power to avoid liability costs for potential wild fires during high wind events. Robbie personally had his power shut off for 48 hours at a time by PG&E in October and November, and talks about his own experience and realizations. PG&E's long history of criminal acts and being responsible for massive death and injuries is discussed as well as the exacerbating effect climate change is having on the up-tick in wild fires. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin.
0:30.1	This is Robbie Martin.
0:33.2	So Robbie, you recently experienced something pretty harrowing.
0:37.8	PG&E preemptively shut down millions of people's power in anticipation for more fires,
0:46.2	just like the Paradise Fires, which took the lives of 85 people.
0:51.0	Absolutely horrifying.
0:53.0	And PG&E tried to evade culpability by just preemptively shutting
0:56.9	off millions of people's power for days on end. And of course it came out that another power line
1:03.9	from Pagini had started another fire in the recent bout of fires that took over California about a month ago.
1:11.6	So before we get into all of this,
1:15.1	I wanted to just interview you really quickly about your personal experience
1:19.1	about what happened with PG&E because you live in Oakland.
1:23.4	You were one of the millions of people whose power was shut off for days.
1:28.7	And, you know, at the same time, it was probably really scary for you to not be able to
1:33.3	communicate and not really know what was happening, you know, to not have cell phone service,
1:38.3	to not be able to have internet, keeping up to date with all of this stuff going on.
1:42.9	And at the same time you know the fires were
1:45.3	encroaching in the area so why don't you talk about what happened to you yeah also known as
1:51.4	there there's so many fires that have actually been called the paradise fire if you look it up on
1:56.0	Wikipedia type in paradise fire you'll find did you mean paradise fire 2003 did you mean'll find, did you mean Paradise Fire 2003? Did you mean Paradise Fire, 2006?
2:04.2	Did you mean Paradise Fire 2008? So I guess there's been so many fires up there that they actually,
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