Are you opposed to fracking? Then you might just be a terrorist
Are you opposed to fracking? Then you might just be a terrorist
By Nafeez Ahmed, The Guardian
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 16:08 EST
Over the last year, a mass of shocking evidence has emerged on the close ties between Western government spy agencies and giant energy companies, and their mutual interests in criminalising anti-fracking activists.
Activists tarred with the same brush
In late 2013, official documents obtained under freedom of information showed that Canadas domestic spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), had ramped up its surveillance of activists opposed to the Northern Gateway pipeline project on national security grounds. The CSIS also routinely passed information about such groups to the projects corporate architect, Calgary-based energy company, Enbridge.
The Northern Gateway is an $8 billion project to transport oil from the Alberta tar sands to the British Columbia coast, where it can be shipped to global markets. According to the documents a Canadian federal agency, the National Energy Board, worked with CSIS and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to coordinate with Enbridge, TransCanada, and other energy corporations in gathering intelligence on anti-fracking activists despite senior police privately admitting they could not detect a direct or specific criminal threat.
Now it has emerged that former cabinet minister Chuck Strahl the man appointed by Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper to head up the CSIS civilian oversight panel, the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) has been lobbying for Enbridge since 2011.
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)What the hell are you doing?
enough
(13,259 posts)snip from the article>
Investigative journalist Steve Horn reports that TransCanada has also worked closely with American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies in attempting to criminalise US citizens opposed to the pipeline. Files obtained under freedom of information last summer showed that in training documents for the FBI and US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), TransCanada suggested that non-violent Keystone XL protestors could be deterred using criminal and anti-terror statutes:
the language in some of the documents is so vague that it could also ensnare journalists, researchers and academics, as well.
According to the Earth Island Journal, official documents show that TransCanada has established close ties with state and federal law enforcement agencies along the proposed pipeline route. But TransCanada is only one example of the revolving door between state law enforcement agencies and the private sector, especially in areas where fracking and pipeline construction have become big business.
This has had a tangible impact. In March last year, US law enforcement officials had infiltrated and spied on environmentalists attending a tar sands resistance camp in Oklahoma, leading to the successful pre-emptive disruption of their protest action.
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Pakid
(478 posts)Since I am opposed to fracking
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)one way or another!!!
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