Ecotage, Sabotage or Terrorism?
They’re trying to get a message through… not sure if it is to stop piping gas or if they just want to save the planet.
The latest bomb was between the Alberta border and the northern B. C. outpost of Dawson Creek.
An earlier bombing also targeting a nearby gas pipeline owned by EnCana Corp. The explosions — which both occurred in isolated forested spots where the buried pipeline emerged from the earth — have raised fears of domestic terrorism.
“How on earth anyone could declare this was not terrorism at this early stage is beyond me. Terrorism is associated with an attempt by threat or actual violence … to change policy,” said David Harris, former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and now a private security expert.
The Dawson Creek Daily News received a handwritten letter in a small white envelope with no return address on Oct. 10.
“We will not negotiate with terrorists which you are as you keep on endangering our families with crazy expansion of deadly gas wells in our home lands,” part of the letter read.
It set a deadline of Oct. 11 for “EnCana and all other oil and gas interests” to close down operations near the community of Tomslake (referred to as “Tom’s Lake” in the letter), and made specific reference to the Steep Rock Plant, a $60-million natural gas project.
RCMP were looking into possible connections to a wave of “eco-terrorism” in the Peace Country from 1995 to 1998 that is often associated with farmer Wiebo Ludwig, a longtime activist who claimed sour-gas wells adversely affect human health.
Mr. Ludwig was released from prison in 2001 after serving two-thirds of a 28-month sentence for five charges related to oilpatch bombing and vandalism.
Well at least they have a small footprint in which to find this terrorist – Tomslake has a population of about 25.
Go get ‘em CSIS.