Maine Makes It Law To Harden Electrical Grid Against EMP — “The first major success for those who have been fighting to get grass roots Americans to take this existential threat seriously and to deal with it”

From: WND

STATE MAKES IT LAW TO HARDEN GRID AGAINST EMP
Strategy encourages others to take similar precaution
Published: 06/16/2013 at 7:19 PM

Maine has become the first state in the nation to pass legislation ordering its grid to be hardened against an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, event, according to report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

The law not only requires preparation against a natural or man-made EMP, it encourages other states to take a similar initiative, since the federal government has refused to make the potential for an EMP event a priority.

The “Act to Secure the Safety of Electrical Transmission Lines” was introduced by Maine Representative Andrea Boland, D-Sanford.

The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, had promised that if the legislation became law it would provide Maine with a study of the most cost-effective options to protect the Maine electric grid from an EMP, free of charge.

It has been estimated that hardening the Maine grid may cost only one to three percent of the cost of new construction and expansion of the Maine grid currently underway.

“This is the first major success for those who have been fighting to get grass roots Americans to take this existential threat seriously and to deal with it,” said former Ambassador Henry Cooper, the first director of the Strategic Defense Initiative under then President Ronald Reagan.

Read the documentation that’s sparking the worry about the EMP threat, in “A Nation Forsaken”.

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