on Thursday that it was seeking tips about “trespassing, vandalism and malicious damage of equipment” at a substation in Clackamas county on 24 November that caused damage and required cleanup costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Portland General Electric, a public utility that provides electricity to nearly half of the state’s population, said it had begun repairs after suffering “a deliberate physical attack on one of our substations” that also occurred in the Clackamas area in late November 2022. It said it was “actively cooperating” with the FBI.
Duke Energy workers repair an electrical substation that they said was hit by gunfire,near Pinehurst, North Carolina, on 6 December.Experts and intelligence analysts have long warned of both the vulnerability of the US power grid and talk among extremists about attacking the crucial infrastructure. released in January warned that domestic extremists have been developing “credible, specific plans” to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020.
In 2013, still unknown assailants cut fiber-optic phone lines and used a sniper to fire shots at a Pacific Gas & Electric substation near San Jose in what appeared to be a carefully planned attack that caused millions of dollars in damage. The attack prompted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to order grid operators to increase security.
I think we can immediately rule out climate change activists.
Sound like a radical lefty climate change nutter group up to no good to me. Maybe even 'Antifa'.