B.C. Oil Company EnCana Receives Bomb Threats

According to a news source, B.C. oil company EnCana, recently received a letter via a northeastern B.C newspaper, threatening to bomb one of their sights.

According to CBC News, Encana received a two-page letter was sent to Dawson Creek Daily News, the note called Encana and other gas and oil companies ‘terrorists’, and demanded that they shut down immediately stopping all their operations at nearby Kelly Lake. Encana has already experienced six pipeline bombings in less than a year, which began in October, with two recent bombings this month. The two-page letter called the previous bombings "minor" and "fully controlled." To let you know that you are indeed vulnerable, can be rendered helpless despite your mega-funds, your political influence, craftiness and deceit in which you trusted," it said. Alan Boras, a spokesman for the company, said that EnCana wasn’t planning to leave the area, regardless of the threat or the last six bombings that had taken place this year.

"These are criminal acts that are endangering the lives of the people who work for our company and contractors who work for us and people who live in the community where we operate,"

he said. So far, RCMP's anti-terrorism units have been investigating the bombings, but have not charged anyone in connection with them. RCMP Sgt. Tim Shields says that the bomb threat has intensified the anxiety among the community at the nearby Kelly Lake operation. Sgt. Shields said many from the nearby community of Tomslake just want to see the bomber caught. "This letter would be considered by many within the community to be a form of blackmail, and it has definitely ratcheted up the level of fear within the community," he said. RCMP suspect the bomber is likely a local resident and believe they know the back roads well in the area. The note also demands that the RCMP allow the community to speak openly about oil and gas company development in the area "unmolested by any further interrogations and/or investigations so that they can speak their minds without reprisal." Although EnCana say s they have a good relationship with the local community, shortly after the bombings occurred, many local residents expressed concerns about the area’s thriving oil patch.