Forestry Corporation of NSW has ‘a pattern’ of illegally damaging the environment, scathing judgment finds
by Lisa Cox from Environment | The Guardian on (#6PM7W)
Land and Environment Court fines state agency $360,000 for logging eucalyptus trees after black summer bushfires
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A court has released a scathing judgment against the New South Wales' state-owned forest agency, finding it had a pattern" of illegally damaging the environment and had refused to accept the true extent of the harm that it has caused".
The Land and Environment Court fined the Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) $360,000 for offences related to the logging of 53 eucalyptus trees in environmentally significant forest near Eden, in the state's south, after the black summer bushfires.
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