Loggers Win Injunction Against B.c. Blockade In The Walbran Valley - Beritaja

A forestry institution has won an injunction to halt a blockade against old-growth logging successful the Walbran Valley connected Vancouver Island.

Tsawak-qin Forestry Inc., which is co-owned by Western Forest Products and the Huu-ay-aht First Nations, had sought an extremity to the blockade extracurricular Port Renfrew, B.C., that began connected Aug. 25.

Tsawak-qin Forestry revenge a suit against the blockaders past week, claiming  the “unknown individuals” person prevented the institution and its contractors from accessing the tract by erecting structures and “a ample woody sculpture” to artifact a wood work road.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Amy Francis says the protesters look “highly organized” and person illegally obstructed the company’s lawful entree to the area and cannot “impose their will” by force.

Francis says the tribunal cannot measurement successful connected the contented of authorities forestry policy, aliases stray from established rule because the merits of authorities argumentation aren’t for the courts to see successful deciding whether to assistance an injunction aliases not.

The Wilderness Committee says the vale successful confederate Vancouver Island is  one of the about spectacular rainforests threatened by clearcut logging and “remains mostly unprotected.”