UK: Unknown Intruder Shuts Down Coal Power Station

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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It's been a _very_ busy week, and I just realized I didn't send this to the
list.

So... enjoy.

Via The Guardian.

[snip]

The £12m defences of the most heavily guarded power station in Britain
have been breached by a single person who, under the eyes of CCTV cameras,
climbed two three-metre (10ft) razor-wired, electrified security fences,
walked into the station and crashed a giant 500MW turbine before leaving a
calling card reading "no new coal". He walked out the same way and hopped
back over the fence.

All power from the coal and oil-powered Kingsnorth station in Kent was
halted for four hours, in which time it is thought the mystery saboteur's
actions reduced UK climate change emissions by 2%. Enough electricity to
power a city the size of Bristol was lost.

Yesterday the hunt was on for the man dubbed "climate man" or the "green
Banksy". Climate activists responsible for hijacking coal trains and
breaking on to runways said they knew nothing about the incident.

Even veterans of some of the most audacious direct actions, such as the
scaling of the Kingsnorth chimney, are mystified. The station operator E.On
professed astonishment that a lone activist would be daring enough to try
to do something so potentially dangerous. Medway police said they had no
suspects but were still investigating the incident, which took place on
November 28.

[snip]

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/11/kingsnorth-green-banksy-s
aboteur

Props, Jake Brodsky:
http://news.infracritical.com/pipermail/scadasec/2008-December/002626.html

Semi-Related:
http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2008/11/scada-watch-pelindaba-brazen-nuke.html

Sleep well.

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
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