Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Safety Board Grills PG&E Over Deadly Blast

PG&E officials acknowledged that four years before the deadly San Bruno pipeline acciden that they rejected installing valves that could have automatically shut off or remotely controlled the flog of gas. PG&E officials were questioned at a National Transportation Safety board hearing about a 2006 memo that said installing the valves would have "little or no effect on increasing human safety or protecting properties. Tina Bachemin filed this report.