First Nation wins injunction barring logging by Canfor in northwest B.C.

VANCOUVER – The B.C. Supreme Court has granted an injunction to a northern B.C. First Nation to stop logging on land claimed as aboriginal territory.

The dispute pits members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation against Canadian Forest Products, and resulted in a native roadblock being erected in 2009 to stop the company from logging in an area near Topley, northwest of Prince George.

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The company said it has a permit to log beetle-killed timber in the region, but the First Nation claimed the logging would destroy an important part of its traditional territory.

Canfor went to court to get an injunction against the blockade while the First Nation responded with an application for its own injunction to stop the logging.

The court has granted an injunction to the Wet’suwet’en members, saying more harm could come to them than to the company if the logging were to proceed before the issue of native rights is settled in a trial.