Canadian environmental organizations could pose a potential threat to national security and are attempting to make the fossil fuel industry look bad.

Such was the assessment of what the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) referred to as the “anti-petroleum movement” in a document dated Jan. 24, 2014, and titled Critical Infrastructure Intelligence Assessment.

The existence of the document, obtained by Greenpeace, was revealed by the Globe and Mail on Tuesday and by French language newspaper LaPresse last week. Common Dreams saw a copy of the document Tuesday.

“There is a growing, highly organized and well-financed anti-Canada petroleum movement that consists of peaceful activists, militants and violent extremists who are opposed to society’s reliance on fossil fuels,” the document states.

It cites fracking protests that took place in New Brunswick in 2013 as “the most violent anti-petroleum actions” the country has seen and “indicative of the growing international opposition to” fossil fuel projects underway or planned, and therefore a sign of what law enforcement “must be prepared to confront.”

The revelation comes less than three weeks after the government’s tabling of controversial Bill C-51, the Anti-terrorism Act 2015, and has added to concerns that the new legislation will be used to cast a wider net over those who can be surveiled.  The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association described the legislation as being able to “dramatically expand the powers of Canada’s national security agencies and violate the rights of Canadians without making us demonstrably safer.”

The RCMP document says there is a “small but violent-prone faction” of environmental groups, and that criminal actions that target the nation’s fossil fuel industry, including the tar sands industry, “represent a credible threat to the health and safety of the workers, the general public, the activists, the natural environment and the facility’s operations.”