AgentM
10-16-2008, 01:30 AM
VANCOUVER — Gas industry employees have been put on alert and the RCMP's terrorist unit has been called in following an attempt to blow up a sour gas pipeline near Dawson Creek, in northeastern British Columbia.
Concerns were raised after a hunter found a two-metre-deep crater blasted out of the earth beneath an EnCana line that carries 60 million cubic feet of gas a day to the Steep Rock gas plant.
“This is a targeted attack on the infrastructure of British Columbia,” RCMP Sergeant Tim Shields said Wednesday in explaining why the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team has been called in to help other police units with the investigation.
The role of INSET, according to the RCMP, is to “detect, prevent, disrupt and investigate terrorist targets and ultimately bring terrorists to justice prior to serious, violent, criminal acts being perpetrated in Canada and/or abroad.”
The EnCana pipeline was damaged but not ruptured by the blast, which occurred at a point where the pipeline emerges from the ground, about 50 kilometres south of Dawson Creek near the Alberta border.
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The attack on the gas line came one day after a small-town newsletter, the Coffee Talk Express, in Chetwynd, received a letter warning oil and gas companies to stop production and leave the area by noon on Saturday.
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Ms. Behn said there has been speculation the sabotage attempt is linked to the theft of 170 kilograms of Vibrogel Dynamite sticks and detonation caps from a site near Chetwynd over the summer.
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Concerns were raised after a hunter found a two-metre-deep crater blasted out of the earth beneath an EnCana line that carries 60 million cubic feet of gas a day to the Steep Rock gas plant.
“This is a targeted attack on the infrastructure of British Columbia,” RCMP Sergeant Tim Shields said Wednesday in explaining why the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team has been called in to help other police units with the investigation.
The role of INSET, according to the RCMP, is to “detect, prevent, disrupt and investigate terrorist targets and ultimately bring terrorists to justice prior to serious, violent, criminal acts being perpetrated in Canada and/or abroad.”
The EnCana pipeline was damaged but not ruptured by the blast, which occurred at a point where the pipeline emerges from the ground, about 50 kilometres south of Dawson Creek near the Alberta border.
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The attack on the gas line came one day after a small-town newsletter, the Coffee Talk Express, in Chetwynd, received a letter warning oil and gas companies to stop production and leave the area by noon on Saturday.
<snip>
Ms. Behn said there has been speculation the sabotage attempt is linked to the theft of 170 kilograms of Vibrogel Dynamite sticks and detonation caps from a site near Chetwynd over the summer.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081015.wbcbomb16/BNStory/National/home