Pacific Gas & Electric substation attack, April 16, 2013

[Logan]

Hope this isn't a repost; apologies if so.

California, April 16, 2013. Someone(s) hit a Pacific Gas & Electric electrical power substation in the early morning hours. Reports indicate that after cutting underground telecommunications cables, 100s of rounds fired from rifles knocked out multiple transformers. Plenty of 7.62x39 shell casings were left behind, no fingerprints. Then Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman, Jon Wellinghoff, brought in a team from the U.S. Navy’s Dahlgren Surface Warfare Center in Virginia. The team reportedly assessed it as a professional job. PG&E and local law enforcement deemed it "vandalism." There doesn't seem to have been a lot of follow-up on this until the WSJ ran an article on it back in February. (link included, but sub required)

I was living in Michigan in 2003 during the Northeast blackout. 45,000,000 Americans were effected and without power. It was an uncomfortable couple of days for folks. I'm wondering if this was a black-op red-team-type penetration test, or a group of terrorists gathering intel. Maybe a pissed off former-employee? What do you folks make of it?




http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014...for-10-months/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...for-utilities/
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...941621778.html
http://allenbwest.com/2014/04/2013-s...ation-act-war/