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Saboteurs - Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil

English · Paperback / Softback

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The story of Wiebo Ludwig, leader of the Christian community, Trickle Creek near Hythe, Alberta and his fight against the oil and gas industry. Ludwig was eventually convicted of sabotaging oil and gas wells.

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Andrew Nikiforuk is a leading investigative journalist and author of the critically acclaimed Empire of the Beetle, The Energy of Slaves, and the bestseller Tar Sands, which won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. His book Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War against Oil was the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction.

Chris Hedges is a journalist, cultural critic, and the best-selling author of American Fascists, Empire of Illusion, and War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute and writes an online column for the website Truthdig.


Summary

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

Product details

Authors Andrew Nikiforuk
Assisted by Hedges Chris (Foreword)
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.10.2014
 
EAN 9781771640824
ISBN 978-1-77164-082-4
Weight 467 g
Illustrations Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

Canada, True Crime, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, TRUE CRIME / General, HISTORY / Canada / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship

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