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Originally Posted by mrvette
It's the fault of the enviro nazi green weenies for not allowing ANYONE to cut the foliage away from the power lines....so it grew into an inferno over the years now.....PGE is just caught in the middle, they can't provide power without cross country power lines, those lines are high voltage, can't have tree limbs falling on power lines, and igniting all the crap accumulated on the stone mountains.....SO, it's that damn simple, the growth has to be cut down near the power lines.....DUHHHHHHH
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There are no California laws preventing anyone from trimming around power lines. There are 26,000 miles of power lines in Northern California alone. This is no small project once it's been ignored for so long. There are access issues sometimes on private property and the federal government owns most of the forest in California. They (The Feds) do prohibit cutting anything in their forests. Some legislation needs to be passed to address the private property issue. Between The Feds, corporate ownership and private ownership, the state of California owns approximately 1% of the forest in the state.