Vandals Damage BC Hydro Substation Near Terrace
Terrace, BC – RCMP say vandals shot out an insulator at a BC Hydro substation near Terrace, causing more than $10-thousand dollars in damage.
Terrace Media Relations Officer, Constable Angela Rabut, says additional losses will be incurred when portions of the Kemano’s Alcan project have to be shut down in order to restore the substation. Constable Rabut says both a shotgun and a rifle were used. She says it’s an ongoing problem – with enormous implications for industry in the area – and it must stop.
“The line is very important for the reliability of the BC Hydro, Rio Tinto Alcan, and the Northwest Transmission System, as a whole.”
Constable Rabut says, “There is a major impact to operations, as well as an environmental impact with fish being affected.”
She is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying those responsible for the vandalism, which occurred to the substation on the Thunder Bird Forest Service Road. Anyone with information is asked to call the Terrace Detachment at 250-638-7400 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
Comments
Not sure how you can jump from talking about vandalism to a terrorist attack.
I think the term vandalism pretty well covers the issue.
Hopefully with some media coverage outlining the consequences of this type of vandalism, those who are doing it will find another way to spend their time.
Get it straight, the whining left will offer their lame excuses for vandalism when the offenders get caught.
Could be kids, having stupid fun. Still they should be charged and go thru it to set them as examples to the community, province and country.
Banned from use of firearms, for life, if they are minors.
if they are adults. Nail them to the wall. Charge them to the full extent of the law.
Make them pay for the damages; time incurred to repair etc. No more just charging them for mischief/vandalism but out of their pockets as well.
Wow, “the whining left” is obviously obsessing right wing lemmings.
Remote ccd cameras and uplink to the Internet is cheaper than fixing an idiots fun .
The line is so important they have no security cameras…. makes sense. What competent people we have running important amenities such as.. power stations. Maybe they are waiting to see if this ‘internet’ can be used for anything other than porn.
Does anyone else hear a crying right wing child in the house?
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