Fairy Creek activists have been dealt a blow after a court decision Wednesday upheld a logging company’s bid for an ongoing order to halt contentious old-growth blockades on southern Vancouver Island. The B.C. Court of Appeal granted Teal-Jones’ application to extend a court injunctionagainst the longstanding blockades by the Rainforest Flying Squad in Tree Farm Licence (TFL) 46 near Port Renfrew until Sept. 26. The logging company sought the appeal after a B.C. Supreme Court judge denied an application to extend the original injunction in September because he found aspects of RCMP enforcement at the blockade endangered the court’s reputation. …Protests are part of a healthy democracy, the judges said, but the interference by protesters to frustrate Teal-Jones’ legal logging operations is unlawful. Digging trenches in roads, building barricades, sitting in trees, locking themselves into various dangerous contraptions or occupying structures like tripods to prevent logging and to make arrests more difficult are the types of actions deemed illegal.