Counter-terrorism unit set up in Alberta to help protect energy industry, public

The Canadian Press
By John Cotter
June 6, 2012

EDMONTON - The federal government has set up a counter-terrorism unit in Alberta and one of its main jobs will be to help protect the energy industry from attacks by extremists.

The integrated national security enforcement team will be led by the RCMP and include officers from CSIS, the Edmonton and Calgary police forces and federal border patrol.

Assistant Commissioner Gilles Michaud said the key to effectively guarding the labyrinth of oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and refineries in Alberta will be to gather intelligence to prevent attacks before they happen.

"When we look at the booming economy of the province of Alberta over the years, one would be led to believe that there is an increased threat to the infrastructure," Michaud said Wednesday.

"We are basically looking at any individuals or groups that pose a threat to critical infrastructure, to our economy, to our safety that is based on either religious, political or ideological goals."

There are about 400,000 kilometres of provincially regulated energy pipelines criss-crossing Alberta. That does not include federally regulated or smaller distribution pipelines.

The Energy Resources Conservation Board estimates there are 176,000 operating oil and natural gas wells dotting Alberta's landscape. There are also eight oilsands mines, five upgraders and more than 250 in situ oilsands facilities.

The 32-member Alberta team is the latest to be announced by Ottawa since the 9-11 terrorist attacks almost 11 years ago. Other teams are already operating in Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec.

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We are the protectors of the environment and you coin those who oppose your energy as eco-terrorists. Shame on you @$$holes!   The industry is nothing more than a group of environmental terrorists and yet the  'Energy Oligarchy' has paid you to push us around as if we were your minions.  Fractivists will prevail in protecting the elements of life! This is not a threat, the oil and gas industry is the threat. The industry is polluting our way of life, stealing our lives for a dollar bill.  The industry is criminally destroying our water, filling our clean air with carcinogens and killing our children.

Hey Industry: YOU ARE THE TERRORIST!  YOU ARE THE 'ENVIRONMENTAL TERRORIST' AND YOU SHOULD BE ARRESTED. 

As eco-terrorism wanes, governments still target activist groups seen as threat

The Washington Post
March 10, 2012

By Juliet Eilperin

Ben Kessler, a student at the University of North Texas and an environmental activist, was more than a little surprised that an FBI agent questioned his philosophy professor and acquaintances about his whereabouts and his sign-waving activities aimed at influencing local gas drilling rules.

“It was scary,” said Kessler, who is a national organizer for the nonviolent environmental group Rising Tide North America. He said the agent approached him this past fall and said that the FBI had received an anonymous complaint and were looking into his opposition to hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking.” The bureau respected free speech, the agent told him, but was “worried about things being taken to an extreme level.”

Even as environmental and animal rights extremism in the United States is on the wane, officials at the federal, state and local level are continuing to target groups they have labeled a threat to national security, according to interviews with numerous activists, internal FBI documents and a survey of legislative initiatives across the country.

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The real eco-terrorists are those who rape the land and leave it for dead, pollute our children's air, contaminate our waters while conducting what appears to be eminent domain on our Constitutional Rights as citizens of America.  Our country, we call America, is more foreign in nature than we actually realize. 

What are our American rights to protect that which allows us to survive? If the state government(s) fail to prevent adverse environmental and human health impacts from drilling operations, then who's to hold them accountable? We are. All of us, who voted them in, that's who.  WE THE PEOPLE.

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. (source: wikipedia)

Eco-Terrorists: Fed up with fracking (VIDEO)

Sourced by: RTAmerica on Sep 21, 2010

The natural gas boom promises to boost US energy supplies over the next decade and perhaps farther. Energy companies and landowners are making money but at what cost? The Pennsylvania office of homeland security has gathered evidence that "environmental extremists" but yet the activists say they were peacefully protesting fracking.



Comment: Yaheuben66 "Terrorist" = anyone who isn't a drooling, fanatical government supporter