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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink38•1 month agoPocket change. It’s just easier and cheaper to pay the fine if they happen to get one. Triple the land cleared should be repatriated by the commonwealth and the previous owner fined to the extent that complete rewilding requires.
minus-square@ladiciuslink8•1 month ago“It’s a price, not a fine.” Yep. Like that guy who bought an old english building protected by conservation law and destroyed it to build a modern house. Had to rebuild the pub until the very last stone and was made to pay for that very costly effort.
Pocket change. It’s just easier and cheaper to pay the fine if they happen to get one.
Triple the land cleared should be repatriated by the commonwealth and the previous owner fined to the extent that complete rewilding requires.
“It’s a price, not a fine.”
Yep. Like that guy who bought an old english building protected by conservation law and destroyed it to build a modern house. Had to rebuild the pub until the very last stone and was made to pay for that very costly effort.