Anonymous attack on Kiewit construction truck

Anonymous attack on Kiewit construction truck

24 Hours Vancouver, Canada – May 14, 2008
By BOB MACKIN, 24 HOURS

An anonymous 2010 Winter Olympics foe torched a Peter Kiewit Sons Co. construction truck at a private residence, not a worksite, 24 hours has learned.

A newer-model yellow pick-up truck with Kiewit’s logo on the driver’s side door was in the Vancouver Police impound lot under the Cambie Bridge’s south end yesterday. The entire front end, including the engine, and windshield were destroyed by fire.

Const. Jana McGuinness would not release details “as the investigation is ongoing.”

Calls to Kiewit offices in Richmond and Edmonton were referred to Omaha, Neb. headquarters. Spokesman Kent Grisham would not discuss the matter.

The May 9 posting on the mostlywater.org blog said the truck was set on fire on the night of May 7. The motive was Kiewit’s contract to expand the Sea-to-Sky highway, “the main artery for the Olympics.”

The unknown author misspelled both Kiewit and Harriet Nahanee, the late Squamish Nation protester jailed for blocking Kiewit crews at Eagleridge Bluffs in 2006.

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Vandals hit truck tied to 2010

24 Hours Vancouver, Canada – May 13, 2008
By BOB MACKIN, 24 HOURS

An anonymous blog message claimed responsibility for torching a truck belonging to Peter Kiewit and Sons construction on the night of May 7.

The May 9 message on mostlywater.org referred to Kiewit’s work on the Sea-to-Sky highway, “the main artery for the Olympics.”

“This is not the first act of resistance to PK+S and hopefully not the last,” said the posting.

The author of the message misspelled the name of Harriet Nahanee, the Squamish Nation elder who was jailed for blocking Kiewit crews trying to expand the highway through Eagleridge Bluffs in 2006. Nahanee died in early 2007 after her release.

Anarchist blogs have buzzed with activity since last fall with similar anonymous messages recounting window-smashing incidents at Vancouver, Victoria and Ottawa branches of VANOC-sponsor Royal Bank of Canada.