This is a guest post by filmmaker Daniel J. Pierce.
The Wilderness Committee and other forest activists were in court in Victoria on Monday to limit Teal Jones’ latest attempt to obtain a new injunction against logging protesters in the Walbran Valley.
Despite appeals from activists and a packed gallery of Walbran supporters, Teal Jones was awarded the injunction, which expires at the end of March, rather than September as they had requested.
The injunction creates 50-meter “bubble zones” around Teal Jones’ machines, vehicles and work crews in the Walbran Valley, prohibiting the public from coming within 50 meters of any logging activities within the company’s Tree Farm License 46.