His Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment has responded over the past two years to over 100 incidents of sabotage aimed at the timber industry.
The incidents include the bombing of a logging site northwest of Calgary. In that incident, six machines were burned and another four damaged by explosives, causing an estimated $5-million dollars in damages.
MacKay found a concrete plug with live shotgun shells embedded in it poured over a gas well and left to harden. The shells were apparently included to discourage removing the concrete plug.
Last December, eco-lumberjacks sawed down 17 power poles that deliver electricity to nearby oil wells. That hit cost $20,000.
In March, woodlands contractors were employed to cut down trees directly opposite the peace camp so that a high fence could be constructed to shield the campers from access to a side road to the Faslane Naval base. However, the trees were scaled then later spiked to prevent this initial clearance operation. The one-meter-deep fence post holes were mysteriously filled overnight, and a small two-bar steel fence erected instead. The trees still stand.