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
SF News San Bruno Blast May Have Been Caused By Badly Welded Pipes The investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board into the September 9 San Bruno gas line explosion has so far yielded no definitive answers about the cause of the blast or the culpability
SF News Castro Gas Main Break Prompts Shelter-In-Place View Larger Map Evacuations and a shelter-in-place are underway in the Castro today due to a "big gas main break" at 18th and Hartford. SFPD confirmed this to SFist, saying that the fire
SF News Did a Gas Line Pressure Spike Cause the San Bruno Blast? The first report from federal investigators on September 9th's San Bruno explosion came out last night, and though it gives no clear answers about the cause of the blast, it does give some
SF News Feinstein and Boxer Introduce Legislation to Strengthen Pipeline Safety and Enforcement In the wake of the September 9th San Bruno natural gas explosion, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer introduced legislation to "strengthen oversight of the nation’s pipelines and increase the penalties for
SF News What's Going On Here, Galileo High School? For the second time today, another local school was evacuated over a reported "natural-gas like smell," and just like the first time no leak was found. "At least 15 teachers on the second
SF News 81-Year-Old San Bruno Victim May Have Been at Home Waiting for PG&E When Explosion Occurred Another alarming nugget from today's Chron piece about the ongoing San Bruno investigation: 81-year-old Elizabeth Torres, the fourth victim of the explosion and fire just identified yesterday, may have been sitting at home
SF News 1981 San Francisco Gas Main Rupture Should Have Taught PG&E a Lesson The investigation of last week's enormous, deadly gas main explosion in San Bruno is now focusing on PG&E's inability to quickly shut off the flow of gas after the explosion occurred.
SF News San Bruno Fire: What's PG&E Got to Do With It? Contrary to bumper sticker ideology, shit doesn't just happen -- at least when it comes to the San Bruno explosion fire, that is. Concern and confusion, sparked by the natural gas explosion that
SF News Surveillance Video Captures 'Moment of Impact' Explosion, Fireball At a gas station in San Bruno, a surveillance video caught Thursday's natural gas explosion and fire on film. "You can see one man getting ready to fill up his car when something
SF News PG&E's $100 Million Attempt at Damage Control Amid rumors of recent San Bruno gas leak reports that went nowhere with the company, that crews came out and did nothing -- allegedly, of course -- the president of Pacific Gas and
SF News State Orders PG&E to Inspect All Gas Pipes The California Public Utilities Commission has ordered PG&E to check for leaks in of its gas lines. This, of course, comes on the heels of Thursday's San Bruno fire and explosion.
SF News Some San Bruno Residents Return Home at Noon After Thursday's natural gas pipeline explosion, which displaced many San Bruno citizens, several residents will be allowed to return home at noon today. "At a news briefing this morning, San Bruno City Manager
SF News Timeline of S.F. Manhole Cover Explosions View PG&E Underground Fires (2005-2010) in a larger map Two manhole covers exploded this morning in the city's Financial District. The early morning explosions, according to PG&E, were due
SF News San Bruno Residents Allegedly Reported Leak Days Before Fire Thursday's natural gas fire, which sparked a bit before 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, originated from a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. gas line. PG&E President Chris Johns, according to
SF News WTF?! Fall Already Here? S.F. Sees Its First Rain Last Night Parts of SoMa, Laurel Heights, and the Western Addition experienced power outages last night relating to an unusual September downpour around 3 a.m. that stirred up a bunch of summer dust and
misc What's Going On Here, PG&E Truck? Spotted outside AT&T Park this week, the folks at JustMarried.us sent us this quick phone shot of a PG&E truck's not-so surprising political sentiment. Find out what it
SF News Jerry Brown Nets $400 Million for California Enron Victims Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate and Jerry Brown revealed today that $400 million in refunds are heading to California consumers who were "victimized by market manipulation and exorbitant prices during the energy crisis
SF News Big Boom on Embarcadero? We're getting reports that a PG&E transformer blew (or something like that) with some kind of explosive noise, causing a power outage at the Ferry Building and some flickering around the
SF News Thousands Lose Power On Peninsula Due to this storm thing that's happening outside, about 26,000 PG&E customers lost power between last night and this morning. Of those, the majority are on the peninsula and in
