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RCMP enforce injunction in Argenta, arrest people protesting old growth logging

Around 31 RCMP in blue and army green uniform congregate in a forest clearing.
The RCMP used their Community Integrated Response Group to clear protestors from the Salisbury Creek Forest Service Road on Tuesday, May 17. This photo was taken after the protestors were cleared. Photo by Breanne Hope.
Meagan Deuling - VF 2590 - Revelstoke • BC | 20-05-2022
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The RCMP’s Community Incident Response Group (CIRG) arrested over a dozen protestors Tuesday while they were blockading the Salisbury Creek Forest Service Road near Argenta, B.C.

RCMP were enforcing an injunction obtained by the logging company Cooper Creek Cedar. The company has a license to log the Argenta-Johnson’s Landing Face forest, a slope of old growth larch over Kootenay Lake. 

The injunction is from 2019. It prohibits protestors from obstructing operations of the company in the area they have a license to log. 

People on the ground reported on social media that witnesses not involved in the blockade, who were on the side of the road, were arrested. 

StokeFM reached out to witnesses, Cooper Creek Cedar, the Kaslo RCMP, and the MLA who represents the area, Brittny Anderson. Stay tuned for more on this as it develops.

Noah Ross is a Vancouver Island-based lawyer who works with the people who were arrested:

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