http://int.piplinks.org/companies/Cartier+Resources en http://int.piplinks.org/quebec-police-threaten-arrest-barriere-lake-algonquins-anti-logging-protest <p>The Sûreté du Québec (Quebec Provincial Police) has threatened members of the First Nations Algonquins of Barriere Lake community with arrest if they interfere with a private company’s logging activities on their territory.</p> <p>The police warning came during the evening of July 9 after a group of Algonquins of Barriere Lake (<span class="caps">ABL</span>) community elders and leaders earlier in the day wrote a letter to Vincent Laurin, an official with the Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources, opposing his decision to issue logging permits to Resolute Forest Products to clear cut an unknown quantity of trees on A</p><span class="clear" /><p><a href="http://int.piplinks.org/quebec-police-threaten-arrest-barriere-lake-algonquins-anti-logging-protest">read more</a></p> http://int.piplinks.org/quebec-police-threaten-arrest-barriere-lake-algonquins-anti-logging-protest#comments Treaty Rights Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) Forests and Logging Cartier Resources Central and South America Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:08:27 +0100 whit 837 at http://int.piplinks.org