Submitted by Lady Byrd:
Nationwide Blackout Possible Using Only
Nine Power
Substations
Matthew 24:10,11 Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines and
pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from
heaven.
A new report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shows that as
little as nine terrorists could take out the United States’ electrical grid for
as much as 18 months.
The report says that on a hot summer day, a coordinated attack on just
nine of the nation’s 55,000 electric-transmission substations would cripple the
system to the point it would cause a nationwide blackout.
“This would be an event of unprecedented proportions,” Ross Baldick,
professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas told the Wall
Street Journal.
The article in the WSJ comes a day after a report from a New Jersey
utility oversight committee showed a serious lack of security at key electrical
substations. The report also cited the April 2013 attack on a Pacific Gas
& Electric transmission station that knocked out 17 transformers with shots
from sniper rifles.
The memo from the FERC says the California attack shows “it does not
require sophistication to do significant damage to the U.S.
grid.”
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