Hunt for pipeline bomber draws harassment complaints

Hunt for pipeline bomber draws harassment complaints
Residents of B.C. town question RCMP tactics
Mark Hume
Globe and Mail
Saturday, Jul. 11, 2009
An RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] team hunting for the EnCana pipeline bomber in northeastern British Columbia has been accused of harassing and intimidating people in an attempt to get a break in the case.
Several residents of [...]

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B.C. pipeline bombed for sixth time

B.C. pipeline bombed for sixth time
EnCana spokeswoman confirms bomb went off early Saturday morning, less than a kilometre from site of Thursday’s explosion
The Canadian Press
Sunday, Jul. 05, 2009
For the sixth time in nine months, and the second time in three days, a bomb has exploded near EnCana’s natural gas pipeline in northeastern British Columbia.
The blast [...]

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Greater Vancouver actions against highway expansion

Gateway Day of Action: Minister Falcon’s Office Declared “Crime Scene”
Saturday April 11 SURREY — Activists South of the Fraser marked the riding office of provincial Highways Minister Kevin Falcon a “Global Warming Crime Scene” this morning, and piled sand used by Ministry contractors for highway construction in front of the door.

Gateway [...]

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Fire rips through controversial Montreal condos

Fire rips through controversial condos
96 units razed; Damage estimated at $10 million
By MAX HARROLD, The Montreal Gazette [Quebec]
April 11, 2009
The Montreal police arson squad is investigating a fire early yesterday that gutted six condominium buildings under construction on land sold in a controversial deal by the Société d’habitation et de développement de Montréal, the city’s [...]

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Six Nations men stop Hagersville development again

Protesters facing court injunction
Developer fed up with land dispute
February 25, 2009
Rachel De Lazzer
The Hamilton Spectator
HAGERSVILLE (Feb 25, 2009) [Six Nations territory, Ontario]
Pressure was mounting yesterday for natives to leave a housing development site where construction has been delayed for four months.
Developer Voortman & Associates Ltd. is seeking a court injunction to keep natives away from [...]

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Arson suspected after fire burns Mississauga construction site

Arson suspected after fire burns construction site
Updated: Sun Feb. 22 2009
ctvtoronto.ca [Ontario]
An early-morning fire has destroyed a group of Mississauga townhouses near Burnhamthorpe Road East and Ponytrail Drive.
It is the third time in less than a week that a construction site in the west end has caught on fire.
Const. Wayne Patterson of Peel Regional Police [...]

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Six Nations land protectors stop work on Brantford housing project

Protesters stop work on housing project
Posted By SUSAN GAMBLE, BRANTFORD EXPOSITOR STAFF [Ontario]
Friday, January 23, 2009
Workers will be off the job today at the Empire Homes housing development on Conklin Road after native protesters halted the project.
A representative of Empire Homes said the company voluntarily shut down work at the site Thursday and will remain [...]

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Firebombing mystifies former oil sands executive

Firebombing mystifies former oil sands executive
KATHERINE O’NEILL
The Globe and Mail
January 13, 2009
EDMONTON [Alberta] — A former top oil executive and his wife are searching for answers after the firebombing of their Edmonton home on the weekend left them homeless.
“My wife and I are deeply saddened by the loss of our home and our personal possessions,” [...]

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RCMP probing new B.C. pipeline bombing

RCMP probing new B.C. pipeline bombing
The Canadian Press
January 5, 2009
TOMSLAKE, B.C. — EnCana’s natural gas infrastructure in northern British Columbia has been the target of a fourth explosion, but officials with the Calgary-based energy giant still don’t know why it is the focus of a bomber’s anger.
Gas line workers discovered a partially destroyed metering shed [...]

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Shots fired, valves damaged at B.C. natural gas sites

Shots fired, valves damaged at B.C. natural gas sites
The Canadian Press
December 18, 2008
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — Several natural gas well sites in northeastern British Columbia have been targeted by vandals but RCMP in Fort St. John, B.C., aren’t immediately linking the attacks to three earlier bombings of EnCana pipelines.
Investigators say valves were tampered with [...]

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