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Activists gathered outside the provincial courthouse in Victoria on Thursday, protesting an injunction application that would end months of blockades against logging activity near Port Renfrew.
VICTORIA For the second time in less than a week, anti-logging demonstrators gathered at B.C. Premier John Horgan’s constituency office in Langford. The protest, which drew more than 100 supporters, was a call to action for the B.C. premier to end the harvest of the old-growth forest at Fairy Creek near Port Renfrew. The lands and forests are part of the Pacheedaht First Nation’s traditional territory and are considered to be sacred. “Faith Creek to me and my uncles and grandfather was and is a spiritual place where we used to go and pray and meditate,” said Pacheedaht First Nation elder Bill Jones. “The creeks there, Renfrew Creek and Fairy Creek, are cleansing creeks, so they are spiritually important to the Pacheedaht First Nation.”