{"id":64572,"date":"2022-12-30T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64572"},"modified":"2022-12-30T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:55:09","slug":"austrian-defense-minister-warns-europeans-are-unprepared-for-days-long-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64572","title":{"rendered":"Austrian Defense Minister Warns Europeans Are Unprepared For Days-Long Blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Austrian Defense Minister Warns Europeans Are Unprepared For Days-Long Blackouts<\/a><\/h3>\n

Leaving one third of citizens unable to \u201csupply themselves.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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The Austrian defense minister has warned that Europeans could face blackouts that go on for days, leaving one\u2013third of citizens unable to \u201csupply themselves.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Klaudia Tanner made the comments during an interview with German news outlet Die Welt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is not whether it (the blackout) will come, but when it will come,\u201d said Tanner, blaming the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Putin, hacking attacks on Western power supplies are a tool of hybrid warfare. We must not pretend that this is just a theory. We must be prepared for blackouts in Austria and Europe,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Austrian armed forces are set to establish 100 self-sufficient barracks by 2025 that are capable of sustaining themselves for a minimum of two weeks if energy supplies are seriously disrupted.<\/p>\n

Tanner spoke to how unprepared Europeans were for crippling elongated blackouts by warning, \u201cone-third of citizens would not be able to supply themselves on the fourth day of a blackout at the latest.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Vladimir Putin remains the convenient scapegoat, others have pointed to Europe\u2019s overdependence on \u2018green energy\u2019 and its shutting down of traditional coal-fired and nuclear plants as one of the primary reasons for increasing the risk of blackouts.<\/p>\n

In Germany for example, the country only has three remaining operational nuclear power plants, with MPs even having to vote to extend their life span into 2023 after previous plans to shut them down.<\/p>\n

As we previously\u00a0highlighted<\/a>, Germans buying up electric heaters in anticipation of the gas supply being cut off is threatening to cause huge spikes in demand that could lead to widespread blackouts.<\/p>\n

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Austrian Defense Minister Warns Europeans Are Unprepared For Days-Long Blackouts Leaving one third of citizens unable to \u201csupply themselves.\u201d SOPA Images via Getty Images The Austrian defense minister has warned that Europeans could face blackouts that go on for days, leaving one\u2013third of citizens unable to \u201csupply themselves.\u201d Klaudia Tanner made the comments during an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[42,79,281,14572,1574,26537],"class_list":["post-64572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-austria","tag-blackouts","tag-europe","tag-paul-joseph-watson","tag-power-grid","tag-summit-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64573,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572\/revisions\/64573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}