BellingenNSW<p>Forestry Corporation of NSW has ‘a pattern’ of illegally damaging the environment, scathing judgment finds</p><p>"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”."</p><p>"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."</p><p>"The court accepted an EPA submission that the agency had “a pattern of environmental offending, has not provided any compelling evidence of measures taken by it to prevent its reoffending, and does not accept the true extent of harm that it has caused by its offending...Justice Rachel Pepper agreed that any penalty imposed on the Forestry Corporation “must serve to deter it from future criminality”.</p><p>“The government is ultimately responsible for the Forestry Corporation, and have a duty to protect the people and environment of NSW from this rogue state-owned corporation."<br>>><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/31/forestry-corporation-of-nsw-has-a-pattern-of-illegally-damaging-the-environment-scathing-judgment-finds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/article/2024/jul/31/forestry-corporation-of-nsw-has-a-pattern-of-illegally-damaging-the-environment-scathing-judgment-finds</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LoggingIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LoggingImpacts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWlogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NSWlogging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FCNSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FCNSW</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/StopLoggingKoalaHabitat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopLoggingKoalaHabitat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/breaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>breaches</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>governance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/criminality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SaveTuckersNob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveTuckersNob</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BiodiversityCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BiodiversityCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FCNSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FCNSW</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/StopNativeForestLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopNativeForestLogging</span></a></p>