re: Climate Change/Fires in the West

When environmentalists intentionally seek laws to prevent access roads from being maintained through the parks and government owned land. Combine the inability to use roads and the use of ponds, steams, rivers and lakes as water sources ...there is no ability to stay on site and reduce the spread of fires. You rely on planes and helicopters flying back and forth to fight. In wind situations, that is a losing proposition.

Meanwhile ...when the Electric Utility is faced with an economy that featured NO EXPANSION for eight years (Obama), things have to be put on the back burner. Clearing of foliage under power lines was stopped. Renewal and upgrading of equipment on the back burner.
PGE was driven into bankruptcy because of the policies of the state. Portland Gas and Electric will go down, as will Southern California Edison. Insane policies passed by Politicians that can barely make it the bathroom caused this ....nothing else.