Eagleridge Bluffs protester dies at 71
Last Updated: Monday, February 26, 2007 | 12:07 PM PT
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First Nations Squamish elder Harriet Nahanee, who was jailed for two weeks in January for disobeying a B.C. Supreme Court injunction ordering protesters to stay away from the Eagleridge Bluffs site, has died.
Nahanee, 71, died Saturday night from pneumonia complicated by previously undiagnosed lung cancer.
Some of the protesters packing up to go home May 25, 2006.
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The construction at Eagleridge Bluffs in West Vancouver attracted protesters who said the highway upgrade for the 2010 Winter Olympics will damage an ecologically sensitive landscape.
They wanted the province to consider a tunnel as an alternative to protect a forested area that would be bulldozed for the new stretch of highway. The government said that would be too expensive.
Protesters set up a tent city in April 2006 in an effort to stop the construction.
But the contractor went to B.C. Supreme Court and won an injunction ordering the protesters to move out to allow the highway construction to go ahead.
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