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The Secure The Grid Minute

The Secure The Grid Minute is a routine public service announcement from the Secure the Grid Coalition, focusing on the need to safeguard our nation"s most critical infrastructure - The Electric Grid!

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“Scud in a Tub?” You don’t need a freighter when you...

The Secure The Grid Minute ·

2017/11/06

This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute. National Security experts have long warned of the risk posed to America by what they nicknamed a “scud in a tub” – which is the prospect of an enemy launching ballistic missiles from commercial freighters. If this missile was topped with a nuclear warhead and detonated at an altitude of 30KM or higher – it would produce an EMP that could wipe out our electric grid and our civilization. The Center for Security Policy recently published an

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“Come And Take It!” The Saga Of The Vulnerable Texas...

The Secure The Grid Minute ·

2017/11/03

This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute. On November 2nd 2015 – two years ago yesterday - 23 members of the Texas Congressional Delegation wrote a letter to Governor Abbott lamenting the Federal Government’s inaction to protect the nation’s electric grid, applauding the introduction of grid-protection legislation at the state-level, and urging “continued leadership and rigorous action to protect the electric grid of Texas.” Not only did the state’s legislature fail to pass that

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It’s Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience...

The Secure The Grid Minute ·

2017/11/02

This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute. President Trump declared this month – November 2017 – to be Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month. Perhaps the Congress can embrace this idea and make one of the most urgently needed policy reversals of our time by saving the Congressional EMP Commission. At the very same time that North Korea is threatening an EMP attack on the United States, The House Armed Services Committee dismantled this national treasure in their version

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“Radioactive Catastrophes” Possible at Home, Not Just...

The Secure The Grid Minute ·

2017/11/01

This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute. Recently numerous Asian and European news outlets have reported the collapse of a North Korean tunnel system at the regime’s main nuclear test site, which has apparently killed hundreds of North Koreans. Chinese and Japanese media fear a massive radioactive leak that could cause an international environmental disaster on the scale of Chernobyl or Fukushima. What most people fail to realize is that the prospects for such an environmental

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Trick Or Treat? Will Puerto Rico Restore Electricity...

The Secure The Grid Minute ·

2017/10/31

This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute. This Halloween, nearly 70% of Puerto Rico’s citizens continue to live a nightmare without electricity. Even worse, Whitefish Holdings - the Montana-based company contracted to fix the grid – which had only two employees before the hurricane made landfall – is now being investigated by the FBI and their work has ceased. Many, no doubt, feel “tricked” by this contract. If Puerto Rico wants to prevent the horror story of another prolonged

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The Commercial Sector – and YOUR Employer - Need...

The Secure The Grid Minute ·

2017/10/30

This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute. Imagine not having to ever listen to another commercial again. To some, that might be pretty nice. Next time you hear a commercial, though, think about the Commercial Facilities – one of our 16 critical infrastructures – and how that infrastructure sector would be affected by a prolonged blackout. Commercial facilities include stadiums, hotels, shopping malls, offices, and apartment buildings – bringing Americans everything from sports and

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North Korea Warns Us AGAIN and we’re NOT Prepared!

The Secure The Grid Minute ·

2017/10/27

This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute. Yesterday a senior North Korean official told a CNN reporter that North Korea “always brought its words into action," referring to the country’s threat to detonate a Hydrogen Bomb over the Pacific Ocean. They would likely do this at an altitude of 30Km or higher in order to test the weapon’s electromagnetic pulse (EMP) affects, which could have devastating impact on any technology underneath the blast. Even if executed over Open Ocean, this

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The Chemical Sector NEEDS Electricity

The Secure The Grid Minute ·

2017/10/26

This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute. The United States has 16 different critical infrastructures, all of which depend upon electricity. The Chemical Sector is one of them and through several hundred thousand facilities across the nation, this sector creates more than 70,000 different chemical products that are essential to our modern lives, ranging from construction materials to cleaning supplies, to lifesaving medications. These plants employ massive amounts of electricity to

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New Hampshire’s Incredible Generosity Reminds Us: The...

The Secure The Grid Minute ·

2017/10/26

This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute. New Hampshire’s citizens and state government deserve serious praise for their generosity in donating 200 tons of food and water to the disaster stricken citizens of Puerto Rico. These donations would fill 17 tractor trailers and took 189 state employees more than 1500 hours to collect. Incredibly, if the power remains off for a year’s time and residents must continue receiving aide, New Hampshire’s incredible effort would only feed 200

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Frank Gaffney to FERC: Get Creative & Make The...

The Secure The Grid Minute ·

2017/10/24

This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute. Less than one month ago, Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry took groundbreaking action by directing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to conduct rule-making procedures that would enable electricity generators such as coal fired power plants and nuclear facilities the ability to recover costs associated with storing 90 days-worth of fuel on-site, making them ready to provide electricity to downed utility operators recovering

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Enforcing the Law Without Electricity

The Secure The Grid Minute ·

2017/10/23

This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute. Curiously, for the immense challenges facing Puerto Rico in the midst of its unprecedented blackout, there aren’t many in media who are willing to investigate how this cautionary tale could unfold on the U.S. mainland. Yet, Puerto Rican residents confront the daily challenges that plague any modern society faced with an abrupt blackout. One such challenge is crime – which HAS been covered in some recent news reports. Indeed, crime skyrockets

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Unimaginable Strike From North Korea

The Secure The Grid Minute ·

2017/10/19

This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute. Recently North Korea’s state-run media said: “The U.S. should expect it would face an unimaginable strike at an unimaginable time.” Just like our nation thought it unimaginable before 9/11 for a group of Islamic jihadis to hijack airplanes and use them as weapons, most Americans – including most in Congress – exhibit a similar, but much more profound and inexcusable failure of imagination – that North Korea could use any one of its numerous

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The Swan Song of the EMP Commission

The Secure The Grid Minute ·

2017/10/18

Former Congressman Curt Weldon, the only member of congress who held simultaneously the Vice Chairmanship of the House Armed Services Committee and House Homeland Security Committee, and who was also responsible for giving the United States national missile defense recently stated: “Only Washington bureaucrats could be so stupid they would terminate the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack, also known as the Congressional EMP Commission —

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Puerto Rico

The Secure The Grid Minute ·

2017/10/18

This is Tommy Waller, Director for Special Projects at the Center for Security Policy, with the Secure The Grid Minute. CAGUAS, Puerto Rico: Harry Figueroa, a teacher who went a week without the oxygen that helped him breathe, died there last week at age 58. His body went unrefrigerated for so long that the funeral director could not embalm his badly decomposed corpse. His daughter stated “Because of the electricity situation, a lot of people died, and are still dying….You can’t get sick

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