Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil

by Andrew Nikiforuk

Chris Hedges (Foreword)

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At Trickle Creek in northern Alberta, Wiebo Ludwig thought he'd buffered his tiny religious community from civilization, but in 1990 civilization came calling. A Calgary oil company proposed to drill directly in view of the farm's communal dining room. Ludwig wrote letters, petitioned, forced public hearings, and discovered the provincial regulator cared little about landowners. After the oil company accidentally vented raw sour gas, Ludwig's wife miscarried. Hostilities against the oil company began with nails on the roads, sabotaged well sites, and road blockades. They culminated in death threats, shootings, and bombings. The RCMP recruited a Ludwig acolyte as...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781771640824
  • Publish Date 30 October 2014 (first published 1 October 2002)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Greystone Books,Canada
  • Edition Revised Edition
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 310
  • Language English