2022-12-09 at 9:50 AM UTC
The electrical grid has been physically attacked at least six times in Oregon and Western Washington since mid-November, causing growing alarm for law enforcement as well as utilities responsible for parts of the region’s critical infrastructure.
According to information obtained by Oregon Public Broadcasting and KUOW Public Radio, at least two of the incidents bear similarities to the attacks on substations in North Carolina on Saturday that left thousands of people without electricity for days.
Portland General Electric, the Bonneville Power Administration, Cowlitz County Public Utility District and Puget Sound Energy have confirmed a total of six separate attacks on electrical substations they manage in Oregon and Washington. Attackers used firearms in at least some of the incidents in both states, and some power customers in Oregon and Washington experienced at least brief service disruption as a result of the attacks.
All four utilities stated they were cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI declined to confirm whether it was investigating.
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After the attacks on substations in Oregon and Washington, the FBI and Oregon’s Titan Fusion Center issued a memo on Dec. 2 that warned utilities about the recent attacks. The fusion center gathers intelligence to investigate and prevent acts of terrorism.
The next day, two substations in North Carolina were damaged by gunfire, cutting electricity for days to tens of thousands of people.
Electrical substations are complicated and potentially dangerous parts of the electrical grid that keep the nation’s lights on. Substations convert high-voltage electricity that travels across long-distance transmission lines to the lower voltages used by businesses and residences.
The Bonneville Power Administration, a federal agency that markets hydropower throughout the Pacific Northwest and owns 15,000 miles of transmission line and 200 substations, had confirmed at least one incident by Wednesday evening. The agency called it a “deliberate physical attack” that damaged a substation in Clackamas County, Oregon, early on Thanksgiving morning.
Oregon Public Broadcasting and KUOW obtained an email written by a security specialist with the Bonneville Power Administration that details that attack. OPB is withholding the specialists’ name at the request of Bonneville Power due to their concerns about the specialist’s safety. Two people cut through the fence surrounding a high-voltage substation, then “used firearms to shoot up and disable numerous pieces of equipment and cause significant damage,” the security specialist wrote.
The memo also referenced “several attacks on various substations,” recently, in Western Washington, “including setting the control houses on fire, forced entry and sabotage of intricate electrical control systems, causing short circuits by tossing chains across the overhead buswork, and ballistic attack with small caliber firearms.”
(“Buswork” is a term for the maze of wires and switches that hum overhead at a substation.)
The security specialist stated that online extremist groups are calling for the attacks and providing instructions on how to do it.
“There has been a significant uptick in incidents of break-ins related to copper and tool or materials theft, but now we are dealing with quickly escalating incidents of sabotage,” the email reads.
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/12/08/string-of-electrical-grid-attacks-in-pacific-northwest-are-unsolved/Interesting how they're downplaying this genuine domestic terrorism and basically keeping it to electrical industry news.
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2022-12-09 at 10:40 AM UTC
aldra
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Interesting how they're downplaying this genuine domestic terrorism and basically keeping it to electrical industry news.
it doesn't serve any narrative to point out how vital and vulnerable the power distribution network is
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2022-12-09 at 12:44 PM UTC
So where are these guides
security specialist stated that online extremist groups are calling for the attacks and providing instructions on how to do it
???
2022-12-09 at 12:50 PM UTC
aldra
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it's not that difficult, just shoot transformers with a big round (preferably steel core)
2022-12-09 at 12:52 PM UTC
aldra
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or get a steel cable, tie a rock or weight to one end and throw it over some power lines, I think I saw a video of a guy who did that
2022-12-09 at 1:03 PM UTC
They said chains in the aryicle but that seems heavy
2022-12-09 at 2:33 PM UTC
Power outages are a great time to catch up on reading...just be sure to have some battery powered LED lights, a nice flannel blanky and a camping stove.
/thumbsup.
2022-12-09 at 5:45 PM UTC
It's the globalist minions.
2022-12-09 at 5:46 PM UTC
It's the evil white man again!!
2022-12-09 at 5:51 PM UTC
cheapass electrical companies cant afford some security guards. Im sure theyd say some bullshit like they cant find anyone, a labor shortage while offering $12 an hr
