Wiebo Ludwig dead at 70
Posted Apr 9, 2012 8:41 pm.
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Wiebo Ludwig, a polarizing figure in the debate over northern Alberta’s oil and gas industry, has died at the age of 70 after a battle with esophageal cancer.
Ludwig’s son Josh confirmed his father’s death in a news release, saying that he died at home surrounded by his loved ones.
In April 2000 Ludwig was convicted of bombing a Suncor well site near his home.
He was also found guilty of encasing a Norcen Energy well in concrete and counselling an RCMP informant to possess explosives.
Ludwig always maintained that his farm animals and relatives were made sick by sour gas wells that went up near his property in northern Alberta.
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