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Posted: Jan 26, 2021 6:14 PM AT | Last Updated: January 26
Protestors set up two blockades in Digby County last fall on industrial logging roads, and were forced to abandon them in December due to a court order. (Nina Newington)
The lawyer arguing for the continuance of a court order against protesters who have been trying to stop clear cutting in public forests says the protesters end goals don t justify their means.
WestFor Management Inc., a forestry consortium that works with 13 lumber mills in Nova Scotia, brought a motion to Nova Scotia Supreme Court last year that forced protesters to abandon two blockades on logging roads in Digby County.