No charges in EnCana case 1 month after Ludwig arrest

The RCMP are defending the arrest and detention of Alberta environmental activist Wiebo Ludwig in connection with a series of natural gas pipeline bombings in B.C. even though no charges have been laid a month after the arrest.

“[The arrest] has advanced the investigation, which has brought us a step closer to the end,” said Insp. Tim Shields, who speaks for RCMP in British Columbia.

RCMP have been investigating six bombings at natural gas pipeline facilities near Dawson Creek, B.C., owned by Alberta-based energy giant EnCana. The bombings occurred between October 2008 and July 2009.

Police arrested Ludwig, 68, who had sent an open letter to the EnCana pipeline bomber in September 2009 expressing his support but urging the bombings to stop, on Jan. 8, at a hotel in Grande Prairie, Alta. That same day, they arrived at his farm in nearby Hythe with a five-day search warrant.

CBC