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Could eco-terrorists be behind the attacks on America’s power stations?
New York Post ^ | December 29, 2022 | Steven F. Hayward

Posted on 12/31/2022 5:13:41 AM PST by karpov

Rolling blackouts during the recent cold wave has raised concern about the reliability of our electricity grid, but the growing possibility of deliberate sabotage may be a bigger threat.

The first sign America’s electricity grid might have become a target occurred in 2013, when a marksman disabled an electricity substation south of San Jose with more than a hundred long-range shots reportedly from a .50-caliber rifle. This was no casual prank or random act of vandalism. It was clearly planned, and the damage required nearly a month to repair.

At the time the FBI downplayed the incident, saying publicly that it didn’t think it was terrorist-related.

The mystery deepened with a series of Christmas Day attacks this year on two electricity substations in Washington state that led to blackouts for thousands of customers. Local authorities thought the attack was perhaps part of a burglary — thieves sometimes target electric-utility facilities for their valuable copper and other materials with a high black-market value — but there was a telling detail in the news stories on the incident: The local utility had received prior warning of a possible attack from “federal law enforcement officials.”

Which federal law-enforcement officials might those be?

In January a Department of Homeland Security report concluded that “extremist groups” had developed “credible, specific plans” to attack the grid. The report didn’t single out any particular group or motivation, saying a spectrum of extreme ideologies could have embraced the cause. According to one estimate, there have been more than 100 attacks on the grid this year.

The FBI has a long history of monitoring and infiltrating extremist groups and understandably remains tight-lipped about which groups it has under active surveillance.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: blackouts; climatechange; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorist; energy; grid; infrastructure; obviously; power; powerplants; powerstations; terrorism
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To: cuz1961

That post doesn’t make any sense, can you translate it?


61 posted on 12/31/2022 9:39:05 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

He wrote that behind a few shots of Slivovitz


62 posted on 12/31/2022 9:43:23 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: ansel12

Progs love to blame stuff on trump

and maga

and especially Russia Russia Russia !

Put all 3 together and it’s

” earmarks par excellence”

Just ask vindman or Adam shifty.

Just trying to sort out
his ( il)logical conclusion of

” russian earmarks”.


63 posted on 12/31/2022 9:53:03 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: PIF

around here the eco terrorist like to lay chains or cable across rail road switch sensors. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if they throw chains over the fence to short the transformers and switches.


64 posted on 12/31/2022 9:54:40 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: semimojo

Electricity is produced by evil coal and gas... Therefore its use is evil to mother Gaiai.

But the eco terrorists like ELF want humans eliminated entirely. They aren’t part of the green new deal cult.


65 posted on 12/31/2022 9:57:28 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: cuz1961; BobL

In this case, BobL is devoted to Russia and wants to believe that America is justly getting attacked in a domestic Russian operation.

If you read my posts you must have seen me quoting BobL about these attacks, “Payback’s a bitch.”.

Your posts aren’t making any sense at all.


66 posted on 12/31/2022 10:01:08 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: karpov

The FBI also has access to .50 caliber weapons....


67 posted on 12/31/2022 10:10:43 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: karpov

I question whether they’ve been actual “attacks”. More like planned sabotage by government and quasi-government to throw more chaos into the mix, and try to identify how much control the citizens are willing to tolerate.

TVA


68 posted on 12/31/2022 10:23:03 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: Lee'sGhost

I hear you but you’d be amazed (maybe not) by some of the comments I get from those who can’t see the obvious.


69 posted on 12/31/2022 10:26:19 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: karpov

How do we know it’s not the FIB and their minions?


70 posted on 12/31/2022 2:10:38 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: karpov

Note that the attacks are not being published very widely. Which means the terrorists are not associated with the right.


71 posted on 12/31/2022 3:08:56 PM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: karpov

Enabled by the stupid media for broadcasting far and wide how easy it is to take out a substation.


72 posted on 12/31/2022 4:57:53 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: karpov

Clearly. this is the work of Donald Trump. There need to be hearings. I think they’ve got him now.


73 posted on 12/31/2022 5:11:32 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: gundog

All I can tell you is, I listened to a speaker years ago talk about this to a very large group. The guy was part of the DHS said something other than what the article published. And I have read other information about it over the years that doesn’t even come close to this article. So i question the current article’s information.


74 posted on 01/01/2023 8:36:02 AM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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