A total of 158 people have now been arrested since RCMP began enforcing a British Columbia court injunction ordering the removal of blockades aimed at preventing old-growth logging on southwestern Vancouver Island.
The Mounties say seven people were arrested Wednesday for breaching the injunction after officers found a large group blocking both directions of a forestry road in the Braden Creek area near Port Renfrew.
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Teal Jones files for creditor protection -
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Charges dropped against old-growth logging protesters at Fairy Creek -
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B.C.’s top court reinstates old-growth logging protest injunction -
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Huge RCMP costs associated with Fairy Creek anti-logging protests -
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New RCMP poll shows British Columbians support enforcement action at Fairy Creek -
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Vancouver Island First Nation condemns anti-logging protestors -
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RCMP find healthy trees felled at Fairy Creek old-growth protest site -
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Poll finds 85% support for old growth protection -
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Hundreds protest logging rules on Vancouver Island -
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Anti-logging protests on Vancouver Island intensify
The injunction is to allow workers with the Teal-Jones Group to resume logging in that area and in the Fairy Creek watershed to the south.
Activists say very little of the best old-growth forest remains in B.C.
They say Fairy Creek is the last unprotected, intact old-growth valley on southern Vancouver Island.
Teal-Jones has said it plans to harvest about 20 hectares at the north ridge of the 1,200-hectare watershed out of 200 available for harvest.
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