Protesting farmers take their tractors to Christy Clark’s office

 

 
 
 
 
Ray Galawan and his fellow protestors will take a convoy of tractors to Premier Christy Clark’s office today (Wednesday).
 

Ray Galawan and his fellow protestors will take a convoy of tractors to Premier Christy Clark’s office today (Wednesday).

Photograph by: Chung Chow , Richmond News

A group of protestors are taking their fight and their tractors all the way to Premier Christy Clark’s constituency office today.

A “convoy” led by Richmond farmers Ray Galawan and Bob Featherstone were already en route Wednesday morning Clark's Point Grey base to issue a demand for the province to take action against demolition waste being dumped on farms.

Galawan and Featherstone have led a 24-hour protest outside a farm on Finn Road since the middle of January, where building materials are being recycled into a new road leading to a new tree nursery.

The protest, which started as a blockade, led to two $25,000 lawsuits being served on the farmers from the business owner trying to build the road.

Today’s convoy is not the first from the farming pair; they trundled down to city hall in Richmond last month and managed to convince council to change the bylaw surrounding soil removal and fill permits on Agricultural Land Reserve sites.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Ray Galawan and his fellow protestors will take a convoy of tractors to Premier Christy Clark’s office today (Wednesday).
 

Ray Galawan and his fellow protestors will take a convoy of tractors to Premier Christy Clark’s office today (Wednesday).

Photograph by: Chung Chow , Richmond News