Burning fossil fuels causes climate change, which makes fires and other disasters worse. The folks in California need disaster relief now. The only "conditions" that should be on any kind of assistance is that we build communities that are resilient to climate impacts & have zero-emissions buildings
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https://www.npr.org/2024/06/08/nx-s1-4992065/a-law-in-vermont-makes-fossil-fuel-company-pay-for-damages-from-climate-change
https://youtu.be/M8Wj6-gPY0g?si=cOUaT08v5guayRQM
Some people will need to rebuild as it was, some families will leave and not return, some plots will remain empty forever. Others will take years to be able to build and will want all the precautions.
Now that it's happening in the south, well THAT'S a whole different story now, isn't it?
Is it too late? Or too expensive?
Hmmmm?
Exposed power lines are too great a risk.
when will we stop forcing ratepayers to pay for transition
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/programadmin/suebrook.cfm
It surfaces facts I would never hear about otherwise.
New developments: buried utilities ~easy, less maintenance, overall less $.
Burying utilities in existing developed areas: very expensive.
last mile problems are hard
roll it into a rate case, jack up the rates of existing customers to eye-watering levels, and take a guaranteed 10% profit off the top of the cost of building it
brb blackpilling myself about whether broadband should be a public utility
A) electricity
B) Telephones
C) Fossil gas
D) Broadband
E) USPS
At least for B), long ago Fed govt, state PUCs and AT&T agreed universal (phone) service was a Good Thing, which required rural & homes be subsidized by urban & business.
Likewise for E), so far.
Stop new C).
now they are NY’s first 100% employee owned utility and I do community benefit work for them
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act
I grew up on a farm, but at edge of suburbs, so may have gotten it earlier.
They will be starting from pretty much a clean slate.
tax the rich
I have little faith in the structural integrity of NY Dems’ spinal columns
poor line maintenance sparking fires is a problem in my rural NY area but burying line would be hideously $$$
Undergrounding utilities is just the start of the changes that need to happen in the aftermath of this.