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Fwd: Oil and Gas Energy infrastructure a terrorist target-FBI Warning
Radsafe:
Copied below is a post I made a bit earlier to the DOEWatch list server. It will be interesting to see how they like being goaded a la Norm Cohen and Radsafe.
Stewart Farber
email: SAFarberMSPH@cs.com
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In a message dated 11/26/01 11:48:53 AM Pacific Standard Time, RadiumProj writes:
Subj:Oil and Gas Energy infrastructure a terrorist target-FBI Warning
Date:11/26/01 11:48:53 AM Pacific Standard Time
From:RadiumProj
To:Magnu96196@aol.com, doewatch@yahoogroups.com, Downwinders@onelist.com, MATTWALD@NYTIMES.COM
DOEWatch:
As noted in the AP wire story copied below, the FBI has issued a strong warning that terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden may target oil and natural gas facilities in the US if he is captured or killed. Despite the hysterical demands by various antinuclear groups and individuals who post regularly to DOEWatch since Sept. 11 that antiaircraft batteries and hundreds of National Guardsman should be stationed at every nuclear power plant in the US, the reality is nuclear power plants make rather poor targets for terrorists if the goal is offsite consequences to health and safety.
Had the terrorist of Sept. 11 crashed one of the hijacked planes into a nuclear plant vs. the World Trade Center it is most probable that thousands of lives would have been saved.
Nuclear power plants with three to four foot thick reinforced concrete containment domes around vital plant systems, are the most resistant structures to sabotage capable of causing serious damage of anything America has ever built. Anti-nuclear hysteria whipped up in what is little more than an attempt at propaganda by activist groups and individuals does no one any good [except those who only goal is to drive up nuclear energy costs at any cost].
The unscientific and dogmatic hand-wringing that many anti-nukes have generated against nuclear power plants since Sept. 11, has only distracted our nation from sensible planning against sabotage in non-nuclear energy industries, and truly vulnerable targets where simple attacks could cause massive loss of life and interruption of energy supply.
Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
Radium Experiment Assessment Project [REAP]
email: radiumproj@cs.com
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Energy Industry on Alert for Attack
By H. JOSEF HEBERT WASHINGTON (AP) - The oil and gas industry is on especially high alert after a Federal Bureau of Investigation warning that Osama bin Laden may have ordered retaliatory strikes against North American natural gas facilities in event of his capture or death, industry sources said Monday.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the warning issued by the FBI last week was general and singled out no specific target, but referred specifically to natural gas infrastructure such as pipelines.
There are thousands of miles of gas pipeline, most of them buried, crossing the United States and Canada. Thirty interstate gas pipelines carry 90 percent of the natural gas transported, according to the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.
One source characterized the warning as similar to one issued earlier this month on potential attacks against West Coast bridges that prompted security alerts, but no evidence of actual terrorist intentions.
The FBI alert prompted the American Petroleum Institute, which is the lead industry group coordinating with the FBI and Energy Department on security matters, to issue a warning to oil and gas companies.
``We have received uncorroborated information that Osama bin Laden may have approved plans to attack natural gas supplies in the United States,'' said the memo, adding that the information was ``from a source of undetermined reliability.''
The FBI warning continued that ``such an attack would allegedly take place in the event that either bin Laden or Taliban leader Mullah Omar are either captured or killed.''
Energy companies have stepped up security at refineries, pipeline pumping stations and other facilities since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and the U.S. retaliatory attacks in Afghanistan.
There are thousands of miles of natural gas and petroleum pipelines crossing North America, making protection of such lines difficult. Aerial monitoring of pipelines have increased and security has been intensified at pipeline pumping stations, according to industry officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Also, some detailed information about location of pipelines and other energy infrastructure have been taken off some corporate and government Internet sites. Access to facilities has been tightened as well, officials said.
11/26/01 11:51 © Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of the Associated Press.
DOEWatch:
As noted in the AP wire story copied below, the FBI has issued a strong warning that terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden may target oil and natural gas facilities in the US if he is captured or killed. Despite the hysterical demands by various antinuclear groups and individuals who post regularly to DOEWatch since Sept. 11 that antiaircraft batteries and hundreds of National Guardsman should be stationed at every nuclear power plant in the US, the reality is nuclear power plants make rather poor targets for terrorists if the goal is offsite consequences to health and safety.
Had the terrorist of Sept. 11 crashed one of the hijacked planes into a nuclear plant vs. the World Trade Center it is most probable that thousands of lives would have been saved.
Nuclear power plants with three to four foot thick reinforced concrete containment domes around vital plant systems, are the most resistant structures to sabotage capable of causing serious damage of anything America has ever built. Anti-nuclear hysteria whipped up in what is little more than an attempt at propaganda by activist groups and individuals does no one any good [except those who only goal is to drive up nuclear energy costs at any cost].
The unscientific and dogmatic hand-wringing that many anti-nukes have generated against nuclear power plants since Sept. 11, has only distracted our nation from sensible planning against sabotage in non-nuclear energy industries, and truly vulnerable targets where simple attacks could cause massive loss of life and interruption of energy supply.
Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
Radium Experiment Assessment Project [REAP]
email: radiumproj@cs.com
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Energy Industry on Alert for Attack
By H. JOSEF HEBERT WASHINGTON (AP) - The oil and gas industry is on especially high alert after a Federal Bureau of Investigation warning that Osama bin Laden may have ordered retaliatory strikes against North American natural gas facilities in event of his capture or death, industry sources said Monday.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the warning issued by the FBI last week was general and singled out no specific target, but referred specifically to natural gas infrastructure such as pipelines.
There are thousands of miles of gas pipeline, most of them buried, crossing the United States and Canada. Thirty interstate gas pipelines carry 90 percent of the natural gas transported, according to the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.
One source characterized the warning as similar to one issued earlier this month on potential attacks against West Coast bridges that prompted security alerts, but no evidence of actual terrorist intentions.
The FBI alert prompted the American Petroleum Institute, which is the lead industry group coordinating with the FBI and Energy Department on security matters, to issue a warning to oil and gas companies.
``We have received uncorroborated information that Osama bin Laden may have approved plans to attack natural gas supplies in the United States,'' said the memo, adding that the information was ``from a source of undetermined reliability.''
The FBI warning continued that ``such an attack would allegedly take place in the event that either bin Laden or Taliban leader Mullah Omar are either captured or killed.''
Energy companies have stepped up security at refineries, pipeline pumping stations and other facilities since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and the U.S. retaliatory attacks in Afghanistan.
There are thousands of miles of natural gas and petroleum pipelines crossing North America, making protection of such lines difficult. Aerial monitoring of pipelines have increased and security has been intensified at pipeline pumping stations, according to industry officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Also, some detailed information about location of pipelines and other energy infrastructure have been taken off some corporate and government Internet sites. Access to facilities has been tightened as well, officials said.
11/26/01 11:51 © Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of the Associated Press.