A grenade-type IED discovered underwater at Mobile’s Converse Reservoir dam was safely removed and detonated by a multi-agency bomb response team, prompting critical infrastructure security concerns around the city’s primary drinking water supply.

A deliberate fiber optic cable cut on Vancouver Island severed emergency and communications services for ten hours, with anarchist outlet Unsung framing the confirmed act of sabotage as part of an ongoing campaign of “direct action” against industrial infrastructure.