Canada under attack?

[Stan]

So far today there has been two bombs go off on oil pipelines headed to the US...

IS that on the US News anywhere?

[Woody]

Only if we could prove that Obama did it.

[Woody]

Where is Bill Ayers?

[Liz]

No, but it is just local news right now. Was anyone hurt??

[darlene]

Excerpts from CBC News:

We believe someone or a group of people have set two deliberate explosions that were intended to rupture and blow up a natural-gas pipeline," RCMP spokesman Sgt. Tim Shields said Thursday.

RCMP Sgt. Tim Shields says police believe someone or a group of people set the two explosions in an effort to rupture EnCana pipelines near Dawson Creek, B.C. (CBC)

"We are taking it very seriously, and now the RCMP's integrated national security enforcement team is taking the lead on this investigation."

Calgary-based EnCana said the second blast, which occured sometime overnight Wednesday, caused a minor gas leak, forcing the company to briefly shut down the pipeline.

"The leak was very small. It was contained or stopped almost immediately. In fact, when the line was depressurized, the leak stopped," spokesman Alan Boras said.

"People are very concerned, and [we] are taking this very seriously. We want to assure the public we are doing everything we can to ensure their safety."

Shields said police believe the latest explosion is linked to a similar blast on the weekend that damaged but did not rupture a sour-gas pipeline about 20 km away.

Not acts of terrorism: RCMP

Investigators are treating the explosions as acts of vandalism, not terrorism, Shields said.

"Under the Criminal Code, it would be characterized as mischief, which is an intentional vandalism. We don't want to characterize this as terrorism. They were very isolated locations and there would seem there was no intent to hurt people," he said.

But David Harris, a security consultant and former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told CBC News the second explosion shows it's time to start looking at a political motive and to do more to protect Canada's critical infrastructure.

Last week, a handwritten letter arrived at a newspaper in Dawson Creek calling EnCana and other energy companies "terrorists" for expanding "deadly" gas wells. The letter gave the firms a deadline to shut down operations.