RCMP in British Columbia have recruited environmental activist and convicted gas-well bomber Wiebo Ludwig of Alberta in their attempt to stop the pipeline bomber.

There have been six attacks on an EnCana pipeline near Dawson Creek, B.C., over the past year.

Ludwig, who served time for bombings and vandalism in Alberta a decade ago, says he told the RCMP he'd like to part of discussions with industry about the community's environmental concerns.

Police said they turned to Ludwig because he has spoken out against the bombings.

Police meet with Ludwig

"It only seemed natural that RCMP investigators would be in touch with him and we have had discussions with him about the ongoing criminal investigation," Sgt. Tim Shields said Tuesday. "But we're not about to make the actual content of those discussions public."

In July, a newspaper in Dawson Creek received a letter warning the bombings would get worse unless the Calgary-based energy company shut down its operations in the area.

Wiebo Ludwig has talked to the RCMP in B.C. about the person who is behind the EnCana pipeline bombings near Dawson Creek. (CBC) The letter promised a three-month lull while EnCana considered the demand.

In an open letter in response, Ludwig said the person behind the pipeline attacks had stimulated "valuable discussion" about the environmental dangers of fossil fuel development.

But local residents were also worried about what might happen, he wrote.

"I want to encourage you not to let anger about such stupidity get the best of you and to realize that these conflicts cannot ultimately be settled by use of force, but by way of informed and patient persuasion. Please give that the time it needs now."— Wiebo Ludwig

"There is real fear, however, on the part of many that you may be far from satisfied with what happens during these three months, especially if the industry refuses to take any conciliatory and remedial action whatsoever," Ludwig wrote.

He called for an end to violence.

"I want to encourage you not to let anger about such stupidity get the best of you and to realize that these conflicts cannot ultimately be settled by use of force, but by way of informed and patient persuasion," Ludwig wrote. "Please give that the time it needs now."

Police have asked Ludwig to help catch the bomber, but Ludwig told CBC News on Tuesday that he wants to take the community's concerns to industry instead.

Police "finally concluded that they would like to accept my offer and check with the industry about meeting together with the three parties — my representing some of the people's concerns, the industry, and then the police, the three of us together — and talk somewhere privately."

EnCana could pacify the bomber by shutting down operations close to an elementary school, he said.

Ludwig served two-thirds of a 28-month sentence for bombings and vandalism aimed at sour-gas producers in Alberta.

He lives just across the provincial boundary from Dawson Creek, in Hythe, Alta.