How Green is PG&E?

The video reveals how PG&E, despite all of its greenwashing public relations misinformation, is hardly green at all. In spring 2011 property owners along the Helms-Gregg 230 kilovolt transmission line were informed by PG&E of an abrupt change in the utility's vegetation management policy. Contractors working for the utility would now remove thousands of trees--mostly blue oaks--from the 120 foot right of way of the Helms-Gregg. Why the sudden change? In another part of California, hundreds of miles away, a century plant had bolted a flower stalk into a PG&E line, causing an outage and fire, for which the utility was heavily fined. But there are no century plants growing along the Helms-Gregg and hardly any other fast-growing trees. In any case, trimming has worked fine for the thirty year history of the Helms-Gregg on the few relatively fast growing species in the area, such as the bull pine, and there have been no outages caused by vegetation either falling into or growing into this line So, again, why the change?