WestConnex environmental offsets bought on property 400km outside Sydney part-owned by consultant
by Lisa Cox from Environment | The Guardian on (#5STHJ)
Emails tabled in NSW parliament reveal consultant on motorway project and ex-government conservation officer hold shares in offset site
The New South Wales government paid more than $1m in 2016 to compensate for environmental damage from the construction of the WestConnex motorway by buying offsets on a property 400km outside Sydney that is part-owned by a consultant who worked on the environmental assessment for the project.
A second consultant who holds shares in the offset site was employed as a conservation officer in the NSW environment department at the time the land, near Kempsey on the state's north coast, was purchased in 2014.
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