While most Fairy Creek activists are fined or community service for disobeying an order, one has to be incarcerated because of the dangers posed by his or her way of protesting with police in the area. .
Justice Douglas Thompson, of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, first explained that Jonaven Moore, a 42 -year -old carpenter and student at the University of Victoria, was a good citizen who tried to draw attention to the climate crisis. He pleaded guilty and had no criminal record.
Judge Thompson said first-time offenders rarely receive jail time, but the way the activist disobeyed the order and threatened the officers trying to enforce it deserved a sentence.
Like many protesting in Fairy Creek, Vancouver Island, in 2021, Jonaven Moore barricaded a logging road on crown land where the Teal-Jones company has a logging permit.
On May 28, 2021, 10 days after police began trying to enforce the order prohibiting people from obstructing the work of forester Teal-Jones, the activist sat on a board suspended above the bridge and ravine.
Judge Thompson said Moore’s equipment was more complex than other activists’ and that police had to take a big risk to get him, that he knew it and still did it.
On the whole, the judge said he understands that climate activists are doing this because of the importance they have for the cause, but one of them has already gone beyond that.
Therefore, Jonaven Moore was sentenced to 7 days in prison, minus one day, for the time already served in prison when he was arrested.
Source: Radio-Canada
