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FAN Press Release -- 13 July, 1998
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ENVIRONMENTALISTS THREATENED WITH VIOLENCE AT INGRAM-MOOTO
13 July, 1998
(Ingram-Mooto valley, BC) FAN volunteers were threatened with violence as they took images of Western Forest Products logging operations in the Ingram-Mooto watershed this weekend. One logger issued a death threat, and one contract foreman warned that if any machinery is damaged, 19 guys on site "will be set loose on us".
"It is difficult to understand what has triggered such animosity. Our purpose is to bear witness to the destruction of this pristine wilderness-- not to damage machinery", said FAN representative Louise Molloy. "If WFP is confident that their operations are up to world-class standards, what are they worried about?"
FAN activists arrived in the Ingram-Mooto on the 8th of July. They are on site with digital cameras, computers and satellite communications to let the world view for themselves the destruction that WFP has caused.
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