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Did Russian hackers blow up a Texas LNG pipeline on June 8?
Washington Examiner ^ | June 21, 2022 02:14 PM | Tom Rogan

Posted on 06/22/2022 11:20:48 AM PDT by Zhang Fei

According to two sources, around the time of Russia's late February invasion of Ukraine, a cyber unit of Russia's GRU military intelligence service again conducted targeting-reconnaissance operations against a major U.S. liquefied natural gas exporter, Freeport LNG.

U.S. LNG exports have long been a priority concern for Russia, viewed by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a means for the United States to undercut Russia's domination of the European gas market.

On June 8, Freeport LNG suffered an explosion at its liquefaction plant and export terminal on Texas's Quintana Island. The damage suffered means the facility is not expected to resume major operations until late 2022. The June 8 disruption had an immediate impact in spiking already soaring European gas prices and has reinforced Russia's ability to hold gas supplies to Europe at risk in retaliation for the European Union sanctions imposed on Russia over the war in Ukraine. U.S. LNG futures have fallen significantly since the explosion.

One source tells me that the FBI is investigating the cause of the explosion. Responding to a question as to whether the FBI and its Cyber Division were involved in the investigation, the FBI told the Washington Examiner, "We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation into this matter."

But what actually happened on June 8?

Well, a June 14 press release from Freeport LNG notes that "the incident occurred in pipe racks that support the transfer of LNG from the facility's LNG storage tank area to the terminal's dock facilities. ... Preliminary observations suggest that the incident resulted from the overpressure and rupture of a segment of an LNG transfer line, leading to the rapid flashing of LNG and the release and ignition of the natural gas vapor cloud. Additional investigation is underway to determine the underlying precipitating events

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; US: Texas
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To: mabarker1

Hey ma, just a thought, but go call them and let them know. Better that we tell people.


61 posted on 06/23/2022 6:04:31 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: escapefromboston
If it was possible to hack into an airplane and crash it then I would call that an obvious design flaw.

Look, I'm sure you didn't mean anything by it!

But simply stating that it might have been a "design flaw" is so vague and general.

Might as well say, "Some people did something."

Regards,

62 posted on 06/23/2022 6:18:33 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: EEGator
Permanent Cold War brains...

What's annoying is that active military are much more circumspect about going to war, and much more likely to support the positions of Rand Paul than Lindsey Graham.

63 posted on 06/23/2022 7:31:58 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: alexander_busek

I mean in that these things shouldn’t be connected to the internet in the first place if they could be used to cause a huge accident. It would be like having voting machines connected to the internet , it’s an obvious design flaw.


64 posted on 06/23/2022 7:45:52 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: mabarker1

Ah - you got me. I’m familiar with electric, hydro-electric, and natural gas systems and as far as I know there isn’t a one of them in the USA that isn’t air-gapped from the interwebs, but I know nothing about water treatment.

Thanks for your response.


65 posted on 06/23/2022 7:49:40 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: escapefromboston
I mean in that these things shouldn’t be connected to the internet in the first place if they could be used to cause a huge accident. It would be like having voting machines connected to the internet , it’s an obvious design flaw.

Would your house have a design flaw if I could cut off your electricity or water supply from outside your house? Does your house have a design flaw if it is in any way susceptible to an external "denial of service" attack?

Is it a design flaw if skyscrapers aren't built so solidly that a fully-fuelled jumbo jet can still take them down?

I mean: Obviously those things should be designed so as to be invulnerable to those sorts of attack!

My point: These things are not DEATH STARS. It's not as though they possessed some obvious design flaw like a 2-meter-wide thermal exhaust port that any farmer from the Outer Rim could bulls-eye.

Regards,

66 posted on 06/23/2022 8:01:09 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: mabarker1

once you’re in, you are in...


67 posted on 06/23/2022 8:50:23 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: SkyDancer

PERFECT !!! Y’All are blessed to have a supply like that. I can smell the crisp freshness in My mind.


68 posted on 06/24/2022 3:35:59 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !)
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To: Lazamataz

They wouldn’t listen to Me when I was employed there and they damned sure won’t listen to Me now.

I really enjoyed Water Treatment, I felt like I was doing a good thing for the Communities I worked in. Apparently I was one of very few with that attitude.


69 posted on 06/24/2022 3:42:29 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !)
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To: rockrr

You’re Welcome.


70 posted on 06/24/2022 3:43:35 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !)
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To: Chode

Kinda like cockroaches.


71 posted on 06/24/2022 3:44:58 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !)
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To: mabarker1

The water is so sweet like you wouldn’t believe.


72 posted on 06/24/2022 3:56:26 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: SkyDancer

Maybe Y’All should bottle it and sell it yo the French for $25.00 @ liter.


73 posted on 06/24/2022 11:02:53 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !)
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