The Environment Centre NT has said the Finocchiaro Government’s tough on crime rhetoric clearly does not apply to big business, in response to the announcement it has negotiated a settlement with the owners of Claravale Farm over illegal land clearing, which still allows them to farm the area of land they admitted they cleared without a permit.

Claravale Station is owned by Queensland-based Top End Pastoral Company, and the NT Government decided to prosecute the owners after the ABC reported that satellite images allegedly showed hundreds of hectares of land next to the Daly River had been cleared without a permit between June and September 2021.

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