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“Officers hadn’t anticipated there was anyone in the area,” he said, adding that after police clear a zone, it’s typical they continue to hold it. “But then, sometime between yesterday and this morning, protesters literally came out of the trees,” Manseau said. “They were encountered by members and our day of no planned enforcement turned into a bit of a scramble to get media into the area.” A police-escorted media convoy into the control zone set out at 11 a.m., he added. Manseau said he is trying to verify information about the arrests in the zone and will release more detai...

Net Zero: More arrests at Fairy Creek old-growth protest By iPolitics. Published on May 21, 2021 10:49am The Lead Six people were detained on Thursday for breaching the injunction and one was removed from the area with no recommended charges, RCMP said. However, the police are also seeking charges of obstruction for two arrestees, as well as charges of possession of stolen property for two others and a charge of assaulting a police officer and obstruction for another individual. Protesters have been camped in forested areas between Port Renfrew and Lake Cowichan since August 2020. They ha...

Net Zero: Australia doubles down on gas-fired recovery By iPolitics. Published on May 19, 2021 12:22pm Today’s Net Zero is brought to you by iPoliticsLIVE. Join us May 20th at 9:30 a.m. ET for a transatlantic conversation between the European Union Ambassador to Canada and the Canadian Ambassador to the European Union about a sustainable recovery post-pandemic. Register here. Welcome to Net Zero, your daily industry brief on clean energy and Canadian-resource politics. The Lead The new plant is part of the government’s “gas-fired recovery” from the pandemic, and is needed to avoi...