SF News Santa Cruz Lady Flips Out Over SmartMeter, Disconnects It, PG&E Cuts Off Her Power Even if you're not a Marin homeowner yourself, you've likely heard tell about the battles being waged in communities around the Bay Area over PG&E's SmartMeters electronic power meters which transmit
SF News PG&E Finally Admits Liability In San Bruno Blast Fifteen months after a high-pressure gas line explosion killed eight people and decimated a neighborhood in San Bruno, PG&E may finally be willing admit they might have done something wrong. It's
SF News BREAKING: Gas Leak at Mission and Beale in S.F. [UPDATED] According to CBS 5, construction crews have accidentally ruptured a gas line at Mission and Beale streets in downtown San Francisco. Gas is "spewing everywhere." Please stay out of the area until further
SF News Most Recent Pipeline Explosion Probably Wasn't PG&E's Fault for Once Following up on the latest PG&E pipeline rupture that closed part of Interstate 280 near Woodside, the Examiner reports that this one probably wasn't the gas and electric company's fault. Although
SF News Peninsula PG&E Pipeline Explodes, Closes I-280 Sunday Afternoon A two-foot section of a PG&E natural gas pipeline in Woodside burst during a safety test yesterday. Luckily for PG&E, whose public image is falling apart faster than its
SF News PG&E Outage Leaves Nearly 7,000 Haight and Western Addition Residents Without Power [Updated] .bbpBox{background:url(http://a2.twimg.com/profile_background_images/339019803/PGE_TwitterBkgd_02.JPG) #0089c4;padding:20px;}Haight/Western Addition Outage: Approx 6900 customers are currently w/o power. PG&E
SF News Gas Leak in Pleasant Hill Prompts 'Immediate' Evacuation [UPDATED] A gas leak near Viking Avenue and Ruth Drive have prompted the immediate evacuation in the College Park area. Residents are urged not to open their doors or windows. Police said the evacuation
SF News Manhole Cover Explosion at Folsom at Harriet Today at around 1:50 pm, there was a manhole cover explosion on Folsom Street at Harriet Street. Alert SF notes: "Folsom Street is closed between 6th and 7th Streets. Harriet Street is
SF News [UPDATED] Gas Main Break Shuts Down Mason at Post AlertSF sent word that a gas main break shut down occurred near Union Square. "At 2:15 today it was reported that a 10" gas main was hit by a construction crew at
SF News PG&E Just Might Kill Us All Did you hear that a leaky gas pipe destroyed a home in Cupertino the other day? Just a day after the Feds slapped PG&E up the side of the head with
SF News PG&E Gets Slapped Up the Side of the Head By Feds for San Bruno Blast The results of the federal probe into the San Bruno gas line explosion of last September were finally presented yesterday, and the NTSB has placed all the blame for the tragedy on PG&
SF News The Power's Out in the Lower Haight [Updated] Heads up homeward commuters: some of you headed to the Lower Haight might not have power when you get home. According to sources at BCN and the Examiner, the power went out to
SF News They're Getting Pretty Sick of Smelling Gas In San Bruno An image from the tragic disaster of September 9, 2010. "I'm sick and tired of this being scared all the time," says San Bruno resident Janel Costanzo, after an incident Saturday in which
SF News 'Routine Maintenance' on Gas Pipelines in Potrero Causes Anxiety Some Potrero residents became alarmed recently seeing a bunch of PG&E maintenance signs go up near 17th and Missouri, with parking prohibited along a whole side of the street starting last
SF News Manhole Cover Explosion at Grant and Post We're hearing reports of a manhole cover explosion happening in the city's Union Square area. KCBS tweets: "Black smoke reported at Post & Grant in SF, reports of a manhole cover explosion." Joanna
SF News Radiation-Free PG&E Service Will Cost You Twenty Bucks a Month With so many folks out there suddenly concerned about the potential dangers of radio frequency radiation, the California Public Utilities Comission asked the power company to propose some radiation-free alternatives to the wireless
SF News Rain Casuses Power Outages Throughout Bay Area This morning rain - feel it on your fingertips, hear it on the windowpane - has caused minor power outages in the Bay Area. In the North Bay an estimated 1,500 residents
SF News In the Richmond, Neighbors Politely Decline Their PG&E SmartMeters Previously we saw how controversy over accuracy and health concerns surrounding PG&E's new SmartMeters flared up in the North Bay and then fizzled a bit in the Marina, but the latest
SF News Gas Pipeline Under San Bruno Was News to Fire Chief At the NTSB hearing in Washington today at which PG&E is having to answer for what went down in San Bruno on September 9, 2010, San Bruno fire chief Dennis Haag
SF News Eight People in the Marina Don't Want SmartMeters Either After PG&E's new wireless-equipped SmartMeters became the target of protests from both the freedom-loving far right in the North Bay and the don't-harsh-on-my-brainwaves far left from West Marin, we thought there
SF News PG&E Scrambling Around The Clock To Figure Out Their Pipeline Paperwork You know PG&E is pretty much being blamed for killing those people in the September 9 San Bruno inferno and not really knowing what kind of pipes they even had underground
SF News PG&E SmartMeters Threaten Your Freedom, Say the Tea Partiers Members of a local Tea Party group the North Bay Patriots have started gathering the necessary tin hat materials after deciding that PG&E's new SmartMeters are "a threat to public health,
SF News San Bruno Still Deciding How To Distribute Donations Four months after the San Bruno blast, city officials are still trying to figure out how to best distribute the $395,000 worth of donations to the victims. The issue is pretty complicated
SF News Outages Leave Thousands Without Power In S.F. Tonight's storm brought several power outages to the Bay Area. Sunset, Richmond, South San Francisco, and Daly City have all been affected by sudden darkness. Most notably, according to Emergency_In_SF, "over
SF News Loss of San Bruno Gas Line May Mean Heat Shortage in S.F. As the NTSB mulls whether to hold a federal hearing in D.C. on the San Bruno blast investigation, news arrives from PG&E that San Franciscans may face a natural gas
