Activists wait for RCMP to clear old-growth logging blockades on Vancouver Island
A group of activists say they have no intention of ending their anti-logging blockades on Vancouver Island, despite a court injunction and opposition from the political leadership of the Pacheedaht First Nation.
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Posted: Apr 21, 2021 10:00 PM PT | Last Updated: April 22
Katie George-Jim, also known as xʷ is xʷ čaa, is part of the blockade against old-growth logging at Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island. (Dillon Hodgin/CBC)
A group of activists say they have no intention of ending their anti-logging blockades on Vancouver Island, despite a court injunction and opposition from the political leadership of the Pacheedaht First Nation.
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VICTORIA Premier John Horgan gained some leverage this week over an old-growth logging protest that has been festering for months in his political backyard.
The battleground is Fairy Creek, a heavily forested watershed near Port Renfrew in the premier’s Langford-Juan de Fuca riding.
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The Teal-Jones logging group has been prevented from exercising its timber cutting-rights in the area since protesters set up a blockade in August. They have refused to budge, despite a recent court injunction.
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The dispute over blockades aimed at preventing old-growth trees from being logged in Pacheedaht territory on southwest Vancouver Island has revealed divisions within the First Nation’s membership.
A statement issued by two Pacheedaht chiefs this week says they’re “concerned about the increasing polarization over forestry activities” in the territory, and decisions about forestry must be made by the nation.
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