Earlier today, Lawyers were presenting arguments in BC appeal court on the behalf of the group responsible for the blockades put up in protest of of old-growth logging.
The group, who call themselves the Rainforest Flying Squad, initially set up camp around the Fairy Creek area last August and since that camp was set up, over 11 hundred arrests have been made by the RCMP as they enforced the court injunction against the blockades.
A lawyer for Teal Cedar Products, one of the logging companies involved in the case, gave a statement to the court, saying that the company is a victim of a campaign looking to prevent them from exercising their legal timber rights near Port Renfrew.
Another event that happened during the session was that a B-C Supreme Court judge denied the company’s application to extend the injunction, which was set to expire back in September.
An Appeal Court judge also granted a temporary stay of that decision so Teal Cedar could appeal the lower court decision if they so desired.
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