The CBC covered today's logging protests at Field Rd and the highway. The report aired on the 6:00 pm news. There is also a write-up on the CBC website and you can read it here. As you can see in that CBC report, one of our own from Egmont was helping the cause. She and others who have headed down that way are sure this support will be reciprocated when the time comes. The public driving by is definitely showing far more enthusiasm than when these protests first began. I think the message and images of what is taking in the watershed is finally beginning to sink in. That message has reached younger residents and they were out in number adding a new dynamic to the protest.
They certainly had the attention of the police. The RCMP are a definite presence at protests since the BC Supreme court upheld Western Forest Products' injunction. The freelance journalist who was arrested yesterday didn't step foot off the IGA parking lot. So much for the freedom of the press. There is talk among the protesters that entrapment tactics were used leading up to her arrest.It was hoped the CBC would be able to get some footage of the watershed but police would not allow them into the area. It appears they have tightened the reins after the events of Monday and Tuesday shut down the logging.
That freelance journalist has taken her video work and combined it with the video taken by Will Koop of the BC Tap Water Alliance. Koop managed to get into the watershed area last week and got shots of the heli-logging operation. Those combined videos have been posted to YouTube and you can watch it below (if you are on dial-up it will take some time to load but it is worth viewing.
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