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Andrew Nikiforuk

Saboteurs

Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-77164-083-1
  • EAN: 9781771640831
  • Produktnummer: 21848121
  • Verlag: Greystone Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 310 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'004 KB
  • Auflage: Revised Edition

Über den Autor


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.

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