An eco-terrorist group is becoming more active in the Midwest. TheEarth Liberation Front has been attacking developments it feels aredamaging the environment. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s LesterGraham reports:
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An eco-terrorist group is becoming more active in the Midwest. The Earth
Liberation Front has been attacking developments it feels is damaging
the
environment. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham
reports.
The ELF has been active in western states since at least 1997. In fact,
in late 1998 the group claimed responsibility for burning down a 12-million
dollar resort complex under construction in Vail, Colorado. Since last
New
Year’s Eve, the Earth Liberation Front has been active in the Midwest, claiming responsibility for burning an animal research lab at Michigan
State
University, and hitting several sites around Bloomington, Indiana. John
Dovenmeuhle is the president of the Monroe County Building Association
based
in Bloomington, where a house was burned earlier this year.
“There’s concerns about it because it is a violent act, you
know, arson. And now we’ve had some spikes that were put in trees, and then
some heavy equipment that’s been destroyed and thousands of dollars—
hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage with those.”
The FBI is investigating the Earth Liberation Front actions as domestic
terrorism.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, this is Lester Graham.