By Canadian Press

Mounties return to enforce injunction against anti-logging camp on Vancouver Island

May 20, 2021 | 12:25 PM

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. — Opponents of old-growth logging have re-entered a restricted area on southwest Vancouver Island and Mounties have returned to enforce a court injunction that orders their removal. 

Cpl. Chris Manseau says the RCMP thought yesterday they had cleared everyone from blockade camps along a remote forest service road west of Lake Cowichan, B.C., allowing Teal Cedar Products to resume work.

But he says in a statement that several people returned to the area and attached themselves to structures, and it’s expected they will be arrested.

Manseau said yesterday that 12 people had so far been arrested this week as police began enforcing the injunction granted April 1. 

More than three dozen protesters gathered in front of the Environment Ministry offices in Victoria today saying they support those arrested.

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Protesters set up camp along the McClure forest service road around Easter, while others have been camping since last August around the Fairy Creek watershed near Port Renfrew, which they say is the last unprotected, intact old-growth forest valley on southern Vancouver Island.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 20, 2021.

The Canadian Press