EDMONTON -- The premier's wife is slapping Greenpeace activists with a no-contact order after they crawled on the roof of her house to make a statement.
"If they break that order it is much more severe than trespassing, and we won't have a media circus with it," Colleen Klein said yesterday.
A spokesman for Ralph Klein's office said yesterday that details of the order are still being worked on.
Six Greenpeace activists converged on the Kleins' Calgary residence while the premier was in Edmonton in a Tory caucus meeting Thursday.
Colleen was with her Lhaso Apso, Jessy, as activists got onto the roof, unfurled banners and put down solar panels.
The solar panels were a symbol of clean energy, and a reaction to the premier's opposition to the Kyoto accord.
One Greenpeacer knocked on the door but got no answer.
"It was very terrifying," Colleen said. "I didn't know what was happening. All of a sudden I've got some creature on my roof, and my little dog just about having a heart attack. She was protecting me to the end."
She said when the activists first arrived about 10:30 a.m., she thought they were city employees because they were decked out in orange jumpsuits and hard hats.
It was only when she glimpsed a Greenpeace sign that she realized something was wrong and called security, who then called police.
Yesterday, Colleen praised the actions of the people who came to her aide, and admonished the activists for causing police to be called away from their other duties.
She said the decision not to charge the activists with trespassing, which usually carries a fine, was entirely hers.
Thursday night, Colleen couldn't get the ordeal out of her mind.
"I kind of related myself to a victim of a violent crime," she confided. "I mean I could still hear and see him climbing up on the roof. It was just an invasion."
Colleen said she's satisfied with the security in place at her home. "I am very secure."
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