Forwood Forest Management Limited admitted it allowed multiple machines in the Mangaoai Stream during harvesting — a breach of a resource consent issued in 2019, which only permitted one machine in the stream and imposed strict conditions. The tracking of the machines and the hauling of logs by the butt ends through the streambed created significant water pollution. One machine got stuck and had to be pulled out by two others. The company admitted multiple Resource Management Act breaches and was fined in Gisborne District Court. Picture supplied
Most of the $73,500 fine a forestry company has been ordered by a court to pay Gisborne District Council for environmental offending will be gobbled up by the cost of the prosecution itself - an estimated $50,000.
Forwood Forest Management Limited was sentenced last Friday for its poor practices and poor management of harvesting in Papakorokoro Forest, a 287-hectare plantation forest largely red-...
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