Farmers prosecuted for land clearing allege former NSW minister gave them green light
by Anne Davies from Environment | The Guardian on (#4SREE)
Landowners found guilty of illegal clearing say Kevin Humphries assured them native vegetation laws were being scrapped
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A former minister in the Berejiklian government is alleged to have told farmers in his north-west rural New South Wales seat that they could clear native vegetation with impunity because the government was planning to change the law and they would not be prosecuted.
At least that is the message farmers say they took away from numerous meetings and conversations with the former member for Barwon, Kevin Humphries.
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