By P Gosselin
Yesterday’s eco-terrorism attack will cause Tesla to shut down its Berlin plant until the end of the week… 12,000 employees idle…damage could reach over half a billion euros!
Some political leaders vow swift, harsh justice
The latest news today report that Europe’s only Tesla plant, located in Grünheide near Berlin, still remains closed after yesterday’s massive eco-terrorism attack by the extreme leftwing “Vulkan Group”.
See yesterday’s post here.
The attack on a power transmission tower caused a power outage at the Tesla plant and resulted in the deployment of firefighters, police and even an explosives special unit in Grünheide.
There was also a blackout for thousands of residents in the region, according to media outlets.
Nius.de here reports the damage will run in the upper 9-digit range.
According to Nius.de here:
The fire broke out in a transformer near Gosen-Neu Zittau at around 4:50 a.m., one hour before the start of the shift. The nearby small town of Erkner and parts of Berlin were also without power yesterday, the police told Bild. And: Surrounding areas of Woltersdorf, Gosen-Neu Zittau, Freienbrink, Fangschleuse, Wilhelmshagen and Rahnsdorf were also affected by the power outage.”
The Tesla plant manager, André Thierig, said all 12,000 employees had to be sent home on Tuesday and are not expected to return to work this week.
Threat of explosives
Moreover, Germany’s online Bild reports that “the emergency crews had to withdraw when they discovered an activist tent that was emblazoned with the words ‘Explosive ordnance buried here!’”
The Brandenburg Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service (KMBD) had to be deployed.
Reaction form politicians was swift and harsh: “This has nothing to do with protest. These are criminals,” said Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) on the RBB program Brandenburg aktuell on Tuesday evening. “They are criminals and we will hunt them down with all the means our constitutional state has at its disposal.”
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Well Germany, you reap what you sow.
I’m quite confused by this story.
I thought Telsa claimed to be very eco-friendly
The plant’s power however might come from coal or gas.
The eco-loonies responsible said something fairly incoherent about the plant using too much water and causing a local drought. I don’t think we should expect a rational explanation from them.
I wonder how the German ‘occupy heated swimming pools’ eco-loony protest went?
There was a previous article saying Tesla’s expansion plans would require cutting down part of a forest. I assume the protesters will also be protesting wind turbines and solar farms.
Those protesters have been living in tents and treehouses in the forest where Tesla has plans to expand. I don’t think they’re from the same protest groups.
One article said the area was a “tree plantation”, not a “forest”.
Thanks, everyone for clarifying what they meant. They were upset by what Tesla did not what they make.
This is a statement against capitalism, and against success.
It has nothing to do with environmentalism.
Who is John Galt?
Now imagine that happening to an Amazon or Microsoft or Google data center – there goes the internet, or at least a huge chunk of functionality, and it’s not obvious what will go down until it goes down.
Server farms in OR and WA are close to dams, but the transmission lines are still vulnerable. AMZN’s first data centers in my area were kept secret while under construction. Now there are too many to hide.
GOOG’s and AAPL’s were too visible to hide.
Eco-loons with good explosives could take out the dams and cripple the internet. Win-win for them.
“good explosives”
There are numerous dams on the Columbia River and “taking out” one with explosives could cause a domino-like effect. The result would be thousands of people dead and the socio/economic life in the states of Oregon and Washington would be destroyed.
On the map, the nearest dam to the main server farms in Quincy, WA is near the left center – a yellow dot — named Rock Island
NWD-CBasinDams.jpg (500×547) (umn.edu)
Microsoft’s datacenters are globally distributed. There are multiple sites on each continent, with capacity resilience.
Yes, provided you set up disaster recovery and/or region pairing.
The internet started as a military project. Redundancy and the ability to survive damage without failing were key components of the design. That is, there are many routes by which information can flow from point A to point B. For any two points A and B.
True, but if point A is completely missing due to a power failure, and the information you need is stored on point A, then it doesn’t matter how many routes there are.
Interrupting connection to the internet is more the point, not whether the internet itself functions. Meanwhile, how’s your mobile carrier doing?
They’re quite mad and this Kerryism is beyond belief
“”John Kerry claimed that people would “feel better” about the ongoing war in Ukraine if Russia would “make a greater effort to reduce emissions””
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerry-says-people-feel-better-about-ukraine-war-russia-reduce-emissions
Never mind the carnage.
John Kerry to Russia: “Improve your kill rate to gallons diesel burned, and we’ll all feel better about your invasion and slaughter of innocents”
The only ‘slaughter’ is UkiNazis….
Really? Every person killed, maimed, wounded and/or left homeless is a card carrying Nazi? And who has actually done something wrong worthy of being tried, convicted and executed in summary fashion?
There are Neo-Nazis in the US as well. Should Russia invade us next?
Another Putin stooge self identifies.
Our western governments lied to us about Iraq, Afghanistan, climate, covid, Russiagate, EV’s economies, energy etc. etc.
Suddenly, they’re telling the truth about the Ukraine conflict.
Another Biden stooge self identifies.
What lie? The Ukraine was minding its own business (for better or worse) and Russia first illegally occupied Crimea and then did a full on invasion. These are facts.
Well, that explains why everyone now celebrates April 15 as the day the RMS Titanic stopped its emissions.
It was actually the Olympic – but shhh don’t tell the insurers!
That has got to be the silliest conspiracy theory I have ever read.
Really? You have got to catch up. I had a person spend an hour informing me of how un-informed I was. I was astounded.
Search this: number 17 conspiracy
He also claims that China does not intend to use the new coal plants they are building every month – “because that’s what they told me”!
John Kerry is a conspiracy theory all to himself.
Why, are criminals prevented from protesting in Germany? Why would anyone think that criminals would protest in the same way as law abiding citizens?
strange people on soapboxes in the park, and letter writers, are two kinds of legitimate protesters. Those who destroy public or private property, or interfere with other peoples rights to life liberty and property are something else, something generally vile.
Radicals, if they are greens or other leftists, have mostly had impunity. The Germans stating they are going to do something “this time” denies the record.
History may not repeat, but it does rhyme. ‘Welcome’ and ‘cabaret’ are two words that come to mind.
The losses are mainly foregone production. Which assumes the missing Teslas would sell, which they aren’t. What this ‘greens bombing green’ protest will do is reduce dealer overstocks
Exactly! Hard to believe they are still making these toys, they are a tough sell!
Transformers and power pylons/towers aren’t cheap.
But yes, lost production – and lost wages probably too, counting on things like union contracts and the local/national labour laws. Every worker might get paid for the day or 4 hours, and then be left with nothing until the plant starts up. Employment insurance might have an unpaid waiting period of 1 or 2 weeks (based on my Canadian experience, their mileage will vary)
The lost production ripples through the economy. Parts that Tesla would have bought in order to make those cars aren’t being purchased, which means losses for Tesla’s suppliers.
Workers who aren’t working, aren’t getting paid, so they have to cut back their purchases as well.
There are obviously significant property damages, though perhaps not to Tesla property. There are large response and repair costs that will have to be paid by the public because, even if the activists are found, they are unlikely to be able to cover those costs — unless some wealthy backer(s), such as the one for “Just Stop Oil” can be identified. That last possibility would really be satisfying if said backer(s) were reduced to poverty.
My thought was that the activists, having occupied the forest, had trashed and made it toxic. Something like a SuperFund Site. Trees and soil will have to be removed and the area covered with a deep layer of clean dirt.
WOAH! Wait a minute, the Tesla factory should have solar panels on the roof to power it all, did they not get the word?
I think the word went out during the cell phone outage.
Or was it the internet outage?
Winter.
Do you recall the estimates, based on the 21st century capacity factor in New Your State for wind and solar facilities, that covering the entire site (1440 acres?) of a proposed semiconductor plant in upstate New York with solar panels would produce 1% of the plant’s power needs? From the same data base, covering the site with wind turbines would produce less than 1% of the needed electricity.
It’s more than crime, it’s an act of war. Saboteurs not in uniform should
be summarily executed. And if they are in uniform they should be treated as prisoners of war.
Corporal punishment.
Spanking?
Nah.
Live public flogging will have a better impact.
Give every Tesla employee a stick and have them line both sides of a long street. The protesters have to run the gauntlet one at a time. Social justice at work.
Maybe not a street. Perhaps an alley, a very narrow alley. Allow the employees to “modify” their “sticks” prior to the event as well.
I’ve been trying to think of a proper punishment but haven’t come up with one yet. Clearly our present approach is not a deterrent.
Society will collapse long before global warming has any direct effects.
“They are criminals and we will hunt them down with all the means our constitutional state has at its disposal.” Tough talk. Let’s see if they mean it.
Very tough talk! Looks like this violence threatens his kick-backs from the project! How dare they!!!
‘they are criminals……. just like we are criminals’
Story tip
Another EV company goes bankrupt.
That’s gonna make spare parts hard to come by.
Proterra is the company that US Energy Secretary Janet Granholm had invested in.
And no doubt divested from before it hit the fan?
Correct – but under pressure.
Biden-backed electric vehicle company files for bankruptcy – Watts Up With That?
re-post from Paul Homewood, last August.
Many such stories since then about the consequences.
German greens should learn from the U.S., if they’d set fire to a natural gas pipeline, they’d have gotten away with it.
Note the irony here. I thought these eco- alarmist groups would would be targeting only factories producing gas and diesel vehicles. Now they’re showing their true stripes; i.e., any factory will do, so don’t be surprised if the Pampers production line comes next.
OTOH maybe they’re not eco-terrorists at all but forward thinking counter-revolutionaries struggling to save us all from the Groupthink tyranny of the old guard revolutionary elites-
Porsche blamed for devastating EV fire (news.com.au)
It’s important to contextualise these matters eh lefties?
Perhaps it was a personal attack aimed at Musk?
I expect that EcoNuts will start attacking wind farms and solar fields soon as they pose a greater risk to the environment than other forms of power. Bird Choppers should be torn down anyway, so I won’t complain if they go after wind turbines.
Bring back indentured servitude and make them work off the bill.
Every sword cuts both ways. Given any such power to the state, every homeowner, tax payer, credit card holder behind on their payments would soon face the same fate.
500,000,000 euros / 12,000 employees = 40,000 euros/week-employee or so. = 2,000,000 euros per year per employee. sheesh. they should get a good Christmas bonus. Notice who will though.
What? Now they’re protesting electric cars too?
No, the “forest” being removed.
“They are criminals and we will hunt them down with all the means our constitutional state has at its disposal.” And once we have them, we’ll give them a real scolding, and let them back out