2024-03-15
The NSW Forestry Corporation has been hit again for breaching environmental laws, this time with a $45,000 dollar fine for unlawful logging operations in Nadgee State Forest in the South and Bagawa State Forest in the North which was an operation that was personally inspected by Minister for Agriculture, Tara Moriarty, in 2023.
Greens MP and spokesperson for the environment Sue Higginson said “The Forestry Corporation continues to breach vital environmental protections, they are serial offenders and cannot be trusted to comply with their operating approvals,”
“Minister Moriarty has got to put a stop to this, she is running protection for this rogue state owned corporation and they are committing environmental crimes under her nose at sites where she has visited,”
“Our precious public native forests in NSW are not safe under the management of the Forestry Corporation, they are intentionally allowing areas mapped for protection to be logged while attacking community members that are calling them out,”
“What will it take before Minister Moriarty intervenes in the Management of a corporation under her direction? She is putting community and the environment at risk of further harm by ignoring the serious breaches and crimes committed by the Forestry Corporation,” Ms Higginson said.