Arson at former Syncrude Execs. House

"How long before we get the Earth Liberation Front out here, blowing up SUV's?"

This is what I "blogged" about eight months ago. I said that the result of marginalization of environmental and social groups is that these groups will continually seek further extreme measures to achieve their goals. This is exactly what happened this week when someone tossed molotov cocktails into the empty house of recently retired Syncrude president Jim Carter. The house cost a little less then one million dollars and is now a complete write off. Carter had been a target of vandalism before, in the summer of 2008 Carter's escalade had its windows shattered. 

The ability of the PC to turn Alberta into a corpocracy has forced someone to burn down a house. This is what happens when people are excluded from the democratic process. The Alberta government has been in bed with big oil for along time now despite the warnings of the danger of the tarsands and its unsightly byproducts and people have now "taken to arms". Now my suspicion is that the people who perpetuated this are in someway related to the fort chipewan band because they have no doubt been the worst affect by the tar-sands development but I don't suspect the person will be found because these activities are usually done with some foresight into an escape plan and are done in anonymity. 

Pipelines have also been attacked in northern alberta and british columbia which belong to Encana but these are suspected to be the result of local opposition to development as opposed to the widespread opposition to oil infrastructure development which is the reason why someone burned down carter's house. Now I don't condone these actions but I saw it coming and Alberta has it coming.