State government agencies at war over logging forests ruined by fire
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Pressure to maintain wood supply contracts set before bushfires swept through the stateâs forests is behind new tensions between the state-owned logger and the environmental watchdog, internal documents suggest.
On Wednesday the Environment Protection Authority revealed Forestry Corp had notified that it intended to resume logging in the South Coast forests under the same rules that existed before the fires, breaking an agreement between the two agencies to abide by new conditions after the fires.
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State-owned Forestry Corporation says last summer's record bushfires scorched half of the native forest estate and a quarter of its softwood plantations, setting the agency on track for a sharp drop in revenue in coming years.