Eco-Terrorism

[Ryan Ruck]

Authorities: Earth Liberation Front Cell Member Sought In Fires Surrenders After Years On Run

November 29, 2012

One of the three remaining fugitives in a string of fires set by environmental radicals in Oregon, Colorado and California surrendered to authorities Thursday after spending years hiding out in Canada.

The U.S. attorney's office in Portland, Ore., said Thursday that Rebecca Jeanette Rubin, 39, turned herself in to the FBI at the Canadian border in Blaine, Wash.

Rubin was part of a cell of the Earth Liberation Front known as The Family, based in Eugene, Ore., authorities said. She was sought on charges that she took part in setting fires at the Vail ski resort in Colorado, at a timber company office in Medford, Ore., and at federal wild horse corrals in Eastern Oregon and Northern California.

Ten others pleaded guilty in 2007 to conspiracy and arson and were sentenced to prison. Two others remain at large.

Authorities have said the Earth Liberation Front cell was responsible for 20 arsons around the West that did $40 million in damage, including the 1998 fire that destroyed a restaurant and other facilities at the Vail Ski Resort in Colorado. Other targets included a horse slaughterhouse and U.S. Forest Service ranger stations, research facilities, and an SUV dealership, all in Oregon.

The group disbanded in 2001, but a federal taskforce known as Operation Backfire turned an informant and broke open the cell in 2005. The leader, William C. Rodgers, ran a bookstore in Prescott, Ariz. He committed suicide in jail in 2005 following his arrest.

Authorities said Rubin is to appear in federal court in Seattle, then will be sent to Oregon for trial.

[Malsua]

I wonder if she figures that Obama will step in and pardon her or some other nonsense.

I hope she rots in jail for the rest of her natural life.

[American Patriot]

You BEAT me to this. Ryan, there was an article about two years ago, I remember posting it (might be this thread) about the lodge that was burned to the ground and I said it was ELF. LOL

The authorities kept saying they didn't KNOW who it was here.

[Ryan Ruck]

Aspen Colorado Without Heat After Left-Wing Terrorists Sabotage Three Separate Gas Pipelines

December 29, 2020



Thousands of residents in Aspen, Colorado were left without heat during near-zero degree weather after vandals — possibly green activists from an environmental group — attacked the city’s gas system, authorities said Monday.

The vandals apparently attacked three separate Black Hills Energy gas lines, one in Aspen and two in Pitkin County, leaving around 3,500 residents shivering in their homes Saturday night, The Aspen Times reported.

The Aspen Police Department said the words “Earth first!” were written on one pipe near Aspen. It’s unclear if the environmental group “Earth First!” was behind the vandalism.

Aspen assistant police chief Bill Linn believes the vandals would have to be familiar with the gas system to pull off the scheme.

“They tampered with flow lines,” Linn said. “They turned off gas lines.”

Police scrambled to distribute thousands of space heaters to residents while Black Hill Energy continued working Tuesday to restore the gas.

Aspen is expected to reach a low of negative four degrees Tuesday night, according to the National Weather Service.

The FBI has stepped in to help investigate the matter.