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Report: Kinetic attacks on US power grid spiked 71% in 2022
The Blaze ^ | February 22, 2023 | Joseph Mackinnon

Posted on 02/23/2023 8:09:27 AM PST by Twotone

A division of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation indicated in a recent study that physical attacks on the U.S. power grid spiked by 71% in 2022 over the previous year, reported the Wall Street Journal.

According to the grid oversight body's Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center division, vandalism, ballistic damage, and intrusion drove the increase.

NewsNation noted that Duke Energy Florida experienced several "substation intrusion events' in September. For instance, on Sept. 21, an intruder busted into the Zephyrhills North substation in Pasco County, Florida, sabotaging equipment that resulted in a nine-minute-long outage.

Substations convert high-voltage electricity into lower voltages for use by businesses and residences.

According to Central Oregon Daily, one of the Bonneville Power Administration's substations in Clackamas County, Oregon, was hit on Nov. 24.

John Lahti, BPA transmission vice president of field services, said, "Someone clearly wanted to damage equipment and, possibly, cause a power outage."

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: attacks; grid; powergrid

1 posted on 02/23/2023 8:09:27 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

You know what the biggest and most successful attack on the US power grid has been? Shutting down the pipeline, heavy regulation of fracking, destorying the coal industry, banning offshore drilling and pretty much every other Dem policy that indulges in the fantasy that the US can be powered by solar and wind power.


2 posted on 02/23/2023 8:11:19 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Commenter #2 speaks truth!


3 posted on 02/23/2023 8:57:35 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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4 posted on 02/23/2023 9:49:19 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard; All
"You know what the biggest and most successful attack on the US power grid has been? Shutting down the pipeline, heavy regulation of fracking, destorying the coal industry, banning offshore drilling and pretty much every other Dem policy that indulges in the fantasy that the US can be powered by solar and wind power."

Good points 👍

Everyone please read "The Citizen's Guide To Fifth Generation Warfare" by General Flynn and SGT. Boone Cutler

The book will help you to make sense of what's been happening to our nation.

Hint: We are under attack, and "at war" , but not in the conventional sense of the term.

The book is quite eye opening.

5 posted on 02/23/2023 10:41:26 AM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peazceful slave in a\ new Socialist America)
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To: Pajamajan

Will anyone step to save our country? I have believed were are under attack for several years. Surely there are some patriots left in our military??


6 posted on 02/23/2023 3:03:36 PM PST by boxlunch (Red State governors, kick the fednazis OUT of red states! BTW, We are a REPUBLIC not a democracy!)
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To: Pajamajan

Will anyone step to save our country? I have believed were are under attack for several years. Surely there are some patriots left in our military??


7 posted on 02/23/2023 3:03:39 PM PST by boxlunch (Red State governors, kick the fednazis OUT of red states! BTW, We are a REPUBLIC not a democracy!)
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