@SaveFairyCreek@jjhorgan@mikefarnworthbc .."Indigenous Elder Bill Jones has called for help to get press out to #Fairy Creek immediately. The RCMP raided all the #FairyCreek camps on Monday, the one year anniversary, knowing many defenders would be in Victoria at the Legislature event.." cont'd #bcpoli
@SaveFairyCreek@jjhorgan@mikefarnworthbc .."Today media is being denied access to HQ & camps. Teal Jones is hauling all the HQ and satellite camp equip't & personal possessions away, acting as if it owns public land & personal property on it. RCMP are ignoring Judge Thompson's ruling they do not have legal authority..."
@SaveFairyCreek@jjhorgan@mikefarnworthbc ..RCMP are violently arresting #oldgrowth forest defenders - targeting Indigenous people, wearing racist "thin blue line" badges & giving false names to press. They are threatening to arrest anyone who tries to get their possessions back..." @mikefarnworthbc
@SaveFairyCreek@jjhorgan@mikefarnworthbc ..'Here's a summary compiled by a legal expert of Judge Thompson's Reasons for Judgement, outlining people's rights at #FairyCreek & the legal limits on RCMP. The Judge's statement outlines a strong precedent against the use of large-scale police exclusion zones. Main points: ..
@SaveFairyCreek@jjhorgan@mikefarnworthbc .."The order imposes a duty on the RCMP to arrest and remove individuals violating the terms of the order. HOWEVER, the RCMP has not established that it has a duty to prevent people from violating the terms of the order..."
@SaveFairyCreek@jjhorgan@mikefarnworthbc .."Even if RCMP had established both asserted duties, the police actions in question would not be reasonably necessary to carry out those duties. Therefore, RCMP does not have legal authority for those actions, and the actions are unlawful..." #FairyCreek#oldgrowth
THREAD: Brutal account of police violence & more from a land defender at #FairyCreek. He has bruised ribs & torn muscles & tendons, & says police left people in nearly closed paddywagons in 37C direct sun for hours. This is on you, @jjhorgan & @mikefarnworthbc. #oldgrowth#bcpoli
@jjhorgan@mikefarnworthbc .."I am absolutely gutted this morning. My arrest and the arrests I witnessed on Tuesday were some of the most brutal I have seen or experienced in over 30 years of civil disobedience. I have been tuned up by the cops before but, never that bad simply for saying no.." #FairyCreek
ICYMI, this is one of the best pieces of journalism I've read in a long time. David Broadland in Focus on Victoria, on the perilous BC forestry mess that the BC NDP steadfastly refuses to fix. Some key quotes to follow. focusonvictoria.ca/forests/90/ cc #oldgrowth#FairyCreek#bcpoli
.."Our investigation found the Ministry of Forests with its collective head in the sand and the logging industry feeding on the huge public expenditure of money used to fight the fires.." #bcwildfires#WhiteRockLakeFire#bcpoli
"..testimony provided to an Oregon court in 2019 revealed that clearcut logging, followed by replanting, creates fuel conditions that make fires easier to ignite and harder to control. These effects persist for decades..." #BCWildfires
Intel: In the #Covid19BC presser tomorrow, Henry/Dix will announce mandatory vaccines for HCWs, which doesn't mean much as they are already 90%+ vaxxed. Otherwise no new active measures, & tonight Henry ruled out a province-wide mask mandate, which must also mean schools. #bcpoli
I've got nurses saying this isn't doable so who knows - I'm just passing along what I heard. We will know tomorrow.
Regardless, this seems a distraction from the lack of mask mandate. Bonnie Henry seems anti-mask & has steadfastly refused to put in a mask mandate; Farnworth had to do it. And since govt would have to reinstate the Emergency they prematurely ended July 1 in order to do that...
BC: we are not special. We're not "the Greatest Place on Earth." We're a colony that laid waste to unimaginable beauty and complexity & are proud of it; we're rank with corruption, lack of accountability, & complacency about a near-complete lack of watchdogs, checks & balances..
We are so parochial that we don't seem to understand that this degree of lack of oversight of govt, this lack of checks and balances on power, isn't even normal in Canada let alone globally. Then the lack of daylight between unions & the NDP isn't standard either: see Ontario
This 'BC exceptionalism,' this smugness of British Columbians, the sense of a unique greatness, is 100% delusional. If it derives from some feeling about the natural beauty of this place, that's extra delusional considering what settlers have done to this place in only 150 yrs
Private comments by one of BC's most experienced foresters (who'd rather remain nameless:) "Vaughn Palmer and RBC capital markets are missing the main reason for the exodus of BC's oligopoly of forest corporations to the southern United Sates...." #OldGrowth#FairyCreek#bcpoli
...Thread cont'd: "The forest companies are leaving because over 40% of the forest cover within B.C'.s timber harvesting land base is under 20 years old and the availability of large grade 1 and 2 logs is rapidly declining...." #OldGrowth#bcpoli
... Forester: "These big logs from primary/#OldGrowth forests together with large subsidies to the forest sector provide the economic competitive advantage to the 80% of provincial forest products exported to the U.S., Japan and China..."
Engineer friend watching today's LNG business news (thread): "So much for that one...Pieridae Energy put itself up for sale this morning. How they thought they could ship gas from southern AB to Germany as LNG, likely burning 40% or more on the way, & make a profit is a mystery..
.."Pieridae had to compete with the US as well & US is on tidewater to start. Same w/ the Quebec LNG project that just got cancelled, doing the same w/ gas from AB. LNG has to be the most wasteful process imaginable, esp. from western Canada which is so far from markets" #bcpoli
.."Pieridae took over Shell's dangerous old sour gas wells in southern AB that need to be cleaned up. Who will buy them now? The advantage Pieridae had was that the gas in southern AB wasn't fracked so could be sold to Germany, but they did need processing to remove the H2S gas"