Court upholds finding that company part-owned by Angus Taylor illegally cleared grasslands
by Lisa Cox from Environment | The Guardian on (#63H7R)
Jam Land ordered to pay government's costs after federal court dismisses appeal over clearing of critically endangered NSW grasslands
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A legal challenge to the finding that Jam Land, the company part-owned by the former energy minister Angus Taylor and his brother Richard, had illegally cleared critically endangered grasslands, has been dismissed.
The company had lodged an appeal in the federal court to an order that it restore 103 hectares (254 acres) of grasslands on a property in Corrowong in NSW.
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