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BC court rules against logging company in Haida Gwaii dispute

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The BC Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit from Teal Cedar Products , a forestry company, which claimed it lost millions of dollars due to new timber rules in Haida Gwaii .

The company argued that the new regulations unfairly devalued their forest tenures.

The case centred on 2011 ecosystem-based management rules introduced by the Haidan Gwaii Management Council .

Teal-Jones was also the company at the centre of the Fairy Creek dispute, where old-growth logging protesters blockaded access to the forestry tenures on southern Vancouver Island . It has also launched a lawsuit against 15 of those protesters. The company applied for creditor protection in 2024 . Teal-Jones did not respond to a request for comment..

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