“It’s the largest conservation‑focused commitment of its kind"
This is depressing. That’s $2 per Australian. A miniscule amount. We spent more than that on a single outer-suburban train station.
US mining company Alcoa hit with ‘unprecedented’ $55m penalty for illegal clearing of Western Australia jarrah forests
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Valnao@sh.itjust.works to australia@aussie.zone
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pHr34kY@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
emmy67@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If this had been 100 times the amount I’d have been satisfied with the penalty
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
They don’t pay take here anyway. Total corporate leeches. Brazen and despicable. They should be outed of the country, with the CEO in jail. And forced to pay some decent taxes to boot!
Weak as hell government, in the pockets of the miners.
Cleisthenian@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Death to america
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jesus Christ WA. Here take this $20M fine for clearing land you weren’t supposed to, also here is a permit to clear some other land…