Press Releases PRESS RELEASE JULY 21, 1999 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "VIRTUAL BLOCKADE" OF WEST FRASER TIMBER COMPANY BEGINS IMAGES OF RAINFOREST DESTRUCTION UPLOADED DAILY VIA SATELLITE Today, the Forest Action Network (FAN) began broadcasting images via satellite, directly from West Fraser Timber Company's logging operations in a remote pristine valley of the Great Bear Rainforest near the Alaskan border. West Fraser Timber Company is continuing to blast logging roads into the Chambers Creek watershed some 70km north of Prince Rupert. FAN's campaign flagship, the MV Starlet, is on site where FAN activists are equipped with digital cameras, computers and satellite communications to let the world view for themselves the destruction caused by West Fraser. The Chambers Creek watershed is located north of Prince Rupert, up Portland Inlet and off Nass Bay. It is one of a mere 68 intact valleys out of 353 that were originally pristine. Due to Chambers Creek's ecological importance as an intact, pristine valley, environmental groups have asked that West Fraser stop logging in Chambers Creek, but the company has so far refused. West Fraser has the rights to log 17 large pristine valleys and countless other key ecological areas in the northern part of the Great Bear Rainforest over the next few years.
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