Police clear protesters from Vancouver Island logging blockade
Police say they have arrested four people during enforcement of a court injunction prohibiting anyone from blocking or interfering with forestry activities in the Carmanah Valley of southwestern Vancouver Island.
A statement from the RCMP on Tuesday says a blockade of people, vehicles and wooden items had been established along the Walbran Forest Service Road for several months.
The unnamed protesters had issued a statement on Aug. 25, saying they had put up large wooden sculpture of a cougar as