Tag Archives: Fairy Creek Blockade

Forests, Justice

Seniors arrested as Fairy Creek blockade digs in for winter

National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

A caravan of seniors wound its way along pitch-black logging roads early Thursday to be in place before first light to block old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek region on southwest Vancouver Island.

A contingent of 30 from across the island and adjacent Gulf Islands arrived at Granite Main Road at 6 a.m. to try to stall the road-building and clear-cutting of the forest giants by Teal-Jones in tree farm licence (TFL) 46 near Port Renfrew.

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Energy, Indigenous Nations, Justice

RCMP arrest journalists, matriarchs and land defenders following Gidimt’en eviction of Coastal GasLink

By Matt Simmons, The Narwhal, Local Journalism Initiative reporter

RCMP arrested two journalists, including photojournalist Amber Bracken, on assignment for The Narwhal, during police enforcement of a Coastal GasLink injunction in northwest B.C. Friday. 

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Forests, Indigenous Nations

Why Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is against Horgan’s proposed old growth logging deferrals

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, is among those speaking out against Horgan’s proposal to defer logging on 2.6 million hectares of the province’s most at risk old growth forests.

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Forests, Indigenous Nations

Deferring 2.6 million hectares of BC’s most at-risk old growth forests

British Columbia is considering whether to defer logging on 2.6 million hectares of the provinces most at-risk old growth forests. 

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Forests, Indigenous Nations, Justice

The RCMP returned to Fairy Creek

The RCMP returned to Fairy Creek last Friday, October 16. A post on the Fairy Creek Blockade Facebook page states 7 cars drove up, and 15 officers wearing blue standard-issue rain gear walked into the Forest Defender Headquarters.

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