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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I just got postal mail from AT&T saying they no longer wants to be Carrier of Last Resort.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The accompanying map shades in my zip code. Actually the shading goes outside the lines, I think Rick and neighbors will be getting similar letters.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Or maybe only the neighbors who are currently AT&T customers.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 03:14:57 PM PST, Ron / BCLUG <admin@bclug.ca> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Rick Moen wrote on 2024-01-24 21:18:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> the relevant question is "Was PG&E (for most of the state) or <br clear="none">> Southern California Edison (for SoCal) willing to pay to underground <br clear="none">> the utility cables?"<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Everyone talks about undergrounding all utilities -- especially the <br clear="none">> long-distrance power transmission lines that cause many wildfires -- <br clear="none">> but nobody has ever wanted to pay for that.<br clear="none">I'm sympathetic to that argument.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The terrain, the ground / soil is likely not amenable to burying, the <br clear="none">environmental damage, difficulty of inspection (not that PG&E do that),...<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">And now I hear that where utilities *were* buried, there was often <br clear="none">leaching of lead, etc. into the soil (AT&T?).<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Freakin' great.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">I cannot think of a single example of a fire caused by utility lines <br clear="none">here in BC. We've got ~300,000km if I recall correctly, and a lot of <br clear="none">increasingly dry & dead forests, yet it isn't (yet?) a problem.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Probably those inspections, plus no profit motive.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Recently listened to a horrifying podcast about the Paradise / Camp fire.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I don't recall the name of it, but it was riveting.<div class="ydp6a1537d3yqt2998219408" id="ydp6a1537d3yqtfd80746"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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