Hill Issues Statement-Governor Gavin Newsom’s Letter-PG&E CEO

Article Source: CA State Senator Jerry Hill

State Senator Jerry Hill Issues Statement on Governor Gavin Newsom’s Letter to PG&E CEO

SACRAMENTO – State Senator Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, issued this statement today in support of Governor Gavin Newsom’s letter to the PG&E CEO regarding PG&E’s plans for reconstituting its board of directors:

Governor Newsom is right on target in his assessment of PG&E and the critical need for leadership that best serves the needs of California.

It appears that PG&E intends merely to restock its board with different faces, rather than assemble a team with the experience and the expertise to guide the transformation of a utility company that has lost the public’s trust.

If PG&E persists in these hollow efforts to reconstitute its board, control of PG&E should be placed in other hands as the bankruptcy proceeds.

In the nearly 10 years since the explosion of a PG&E gas pipeline that killed eight people and leveled a neighborhood in San Bruno, PG&E has yet to truly demonstrate that its priority is to provide safe, efficient and reliable service to its 16 million customers in California.

Instead, over and over, PG&E has perverted the public’s perception of a public utility. It’s high time for new leadership on PG&E’s board, but it does not appear that the company is capable of making sound selections.

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Robert Riechel

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