Anti-Growth Saving Group Save Old Growth says its supporters blocked all lanes of the Grandview Highway on Vancouver’s Boundary Road on Monday.
It says that one man is at the top of a high ladder and another man has stuck his hand to the roadway.
They say 80 of their supporters have been arrested in a series of similar blockades on Highway 1 on the North Shore and in Burnaby, Victoria and Revelstoke since January.
The group aims to force the provincial government to ban all felling of old trees, not the whole felling.
Across the street. Paramedics take care of a person in a blanket who has a super glued hand to the road. @GlobalBC @CKNW @ AM730Traffic pic.twitter.com/dZf7vgLvo8
– Andrea McPherson (@AMacOnAir) April 18, 2022
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Interruption – Save Old Growth blocks all 5 lanes west of the Grandview Highway at Boundary Road. One person is glued to the road and another person is on the ladder in the middle of the road. pic.twitter.com/wEidcyOVC6
– Keep the old growth (@saveoldgrowth) April 18, 2022
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On its website, Save Old Growth said the blockades were “part of an ongoing escalation that requires an end to the felling of old growth.” Arrests are expected.
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