Greenpeace to Appeal British Columbia Logging Injuction
6/19/97
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Jun 19, 1997 by nobody@xs2.greenpeace.org in igc:gp.press
Subject: Greenpeace to Appeal BC Logging Blockade Injunction
GREENPEACE TO APPEAL INTERFOR BLOCKADE INJUNCTION
Day 13: Arrests on King Island Imminent
Where: Court of Appeal of British Columbia, 800 Smythe Street,
Vancouver
When: 10:00 a.m, June 18th, 1997
Who: Greenpeace and lawyer Cameron Ward from the Sierra Legal
Defence Fund
Greenpeace and counsel from the Sierra Legal Defence Fund will
appear before British Columbia's Court of Appeal on Wednesday
morning seeking leave to appeal an injunction that would allow
the RCMP to physically remove activists who have been blockading
a logging road at Ista on King Island for the last twelve days.
The injunction and accompanying enforcement order was obtained
by the logging company Interfor last Wednesday. The company
has already clearcut three cutblocks this year on Ista and plans
to log 11 more areas in the next three years. Ista is
considered sacred to the Nuxalk Nation.
Arrests at the blockade site are imminent. In addition to 56
activists standing on the logging road, two people, (one Nuxalk
and one Belgian) are currently perched on tripod thirty feet
above the logging road. Two others, (one German and one
Australian) are locked onto one of Intefor's grapple yarders.
The RCMP are currently on standby at the blockade site.
For more information call: Mary MacNutt: 604-253-7701 or 416-
505-1792; Tzeporah Berman: 604-253-7701 or 604-220-7701.
Tamara Stark at the blockade site via satellite phone: 011-872-
624-628-410 or Radio phone Channel 28 King Island N116748. '