Alberta eco-activist, Wiebo Ludwig, says he's still in the dark about the basis for a peace bond application by three oil and gas companies and needs more information about it before he appears in court on the matter.
His lawyer is expected to ask for an adjournment when the issue goes to court on Wednesday in Grande Prairie, Alta.
Ludwig, his son Ben and friend Richard Boonstra, are named in the peace bond application.
Police say Encana Corporation, Canadian Superior Energy and Seaview Energy Inc., fear that these individuals will "cause personal injury to their employees or agents or will damage their property."
Ludwig said in an interview Monday that they need to see more specifics from the companies.
While Ludwig doesn't expect to make a personal appearance in court this week, he expects an agent for his lawyer will apply to have the matter adjourned for at least three weeks.
The activist said that while he doesn't know what type of information the companies may use to justify their application, he suggests they may try to use his previous confrontations with energy workers to falsely paint him as a potentially violent character.
Ludwig said he's only heard comments from a police spokeswoman, who said the evidence relates to incidents in Alberta over a long period of time.
"I believe that we need a little time to find out what they are basing this on," he said in an interview from his farm near Hythe in northwestern Alberta.
"When we postpone it we'll have some opportunity to get some disclosure on that so that we can argue sensibly in court as to whether they're stretching things or making things up or whatever," Ludwig said.
"We'd like to know what it is they're presenting to the judge so we can deal with it."
They're still considering filing a cross bond, claiming that Ludwig and his family members are the ones in need of protection from energy companies, specifically a company that is drilling a sour gas well just over two kilometres from his Trickle Creek farm.
Once the well goes into production, Ludwig said the sour gas would likely be put into a pipeline owned by Encana.
Sour gas, in high enough concentrations, can have potentially deadly effects, and Ludwig still blames gas well flaring for human and animal still births on his farm years ago.
Last month, RCMP arrested Ludwig but released him without any charges 24 hours later.
Officers spent four days carefully going through his property looking for evidence in a series of pipeline bombings of Calgary-based Encana. There have been six blasts on company well sites near Tomslake and Dawson Creek, B.C.
Ludwig denies that he's behind the bombings, adding he doesn't know who is doing them.
"I have explicitly said that...I have not been involved in the bombing and I don't know the bomber. It's as simple as that."
He said that during his interrogation last month, investigators suggested that the intimate tone of an open letter he wrote to the bomber last fall suggested that he must know the person, but he maintains that's not the case.
Ludwig served two-thirds of a 28-month jail sentence a decade ago after being convicted of bombing sour gas wells in Alberta.
