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Fairy Creek protesters arrest total approaches 1,000
BY , Sep 13, 2021 7:30 PM - REPORT AN ERROR
Police speak with a man who calls himself "UDI" after breaking the chain that held him to a stump during an anti-logging blockade in Caycuse, B.C., Tuesday, May 18, 2021. The RCMP's enforcement of a B.C. Supreme Court injunction against blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on Vancouver Island continued this weekend. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jen Osborne
The ongoing battle over blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on Vancouver Island is heading back to BC Supreme Court this week.
Several days of hearings are scheduled in Nanaimo as logging company Teal-Jones seeks to extend an injunction order against protesters in the Fairy Creek area.
The injunction granted is set to expire later this month, four months after police enforcement began and more than a year after the blockades were first set up.
The RCMP say officers have made at least 989 arrests since May, including 110 people who've been arrested more than once.
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