What happened with the substation attack in North Carolina?
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What happened with the substation attack in North Carolina?
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#3Answer: we don’t know, but there is a $75k FBI reward if you know.
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#4I'm much more interested in the motivations of the people involved.
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#5"Officials have stopped short of calling it an act of terrorism, presumably because we don’t know the motive of whoever perpetrated the act"
There was another one elsewhere [Washington state [1]] and they found out the perps did it to facilitate knocking over some business of some sort. So, just because it quacks like a duck does not mean it either walks like a duck nor end ends up being a duck.
There have also been attacks in Utah by so called environmentalists[2] in an attempt to blunt or "protest" the use of fossil fuels in producing electricity.
But, you know, people like narratives which match their ideology a whole lot.
[1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matthew-greenwood-jeremy-crahan...
[2]https://stopfossilfuels.org/electric-grid/shooting-transform...
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#6Very possibly, the FBI has some strong leads, and are building a case.
This is something on the national scale with lots of federal internal attention - reports likely even having hit the potus desk.
I doubt we’ll hear much about this again unless there’s an arrest.
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#7My wild, unsubstantiated guess:
This is being taken very seriously because the power grid, as Grady points out, is incredibly vulnerable and out in the open. I don’t think it’s because there’s some conspiracy by Russia or whatever.
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#8Similar shooting at a substation in a neighboring county happened a few days ago
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/18/1149694402/another-north-caro...
Re: What happened with the substation attack in North Carolina?
#9Very possibly, the FBI has some strong leads, and are building a case. This is something on the national scale with lots of federal internal attention - reports likely even having hit the potus desk. I doubt we’ll hear much about this again unless there’s an arrest.
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#10It's quite interesting that they also attacked a substation that looked important on a map, but wasn't actually vital. I think some of the early reporting about this incident suggested they "knew what they were doing", but the apparent misidentification of one of their targets perhaps suggests the perpetrators were making educated guesses, without detailed/insider knowledge of how the system worked.