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Investigations are underway after a heated confrontation between loggers and old-growth activists with the Fairy Creek blockade on southern Vancouver Island was captured on video this week.
A group of forestry workers can be seen swearing, yelling and flinging threats and racist taunts, as well as allegedly assaulting a young First Nations man filming the incident, in two videos released by the Rainforest Flying Squad (RFS) on Wednesday afternoon.
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Old-growth advocates say they re digging in at Fairy Creek blockades, despite injunction over logging access
Advocates for old-growth forests say they are digging in as they try to protect parts of a valley on southwest Vancouver Island from logging.
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Protesters block the road to the Fairy Creek watershed in September 2020. (Kieran Oudshoorn/CBC) comments
Advocates for old-growth forests say they re digging in at a blockade in southwest Vancouver Island, where they re trying to protect parts of a valley from logging.
A dozen or more people who belong to the Rainforest Flying Squad set up camps last August and blocked access to the Fairy Creek watershed northeast of Port Renfrew, B.C., where Teal Cedar Products has built roads and plans to harvest in one of its tenures.