Security firm videos critics of upgrader

Security consultants hired by Total were videotaping residents and protesters Tuesday attending the Energy Resources Conservation Board hearing in Fort Saskatchewan, says an environmental activist who talked to the two men.

Total said it hired security to safeguard the expensive equipment the company brought to the hotel.

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Sheila Muxlow of the Sierra Club Prairie chapter said she noticed the men with a small hand-held videotape recording a protest that was held outside the hotel. She noticed they were wearing street clothes and asked them who they were working for.

"The comments the guy made was that they were videotaping to show their employer they were doing their job."