And so now they’ll be made to restore and replant the area cleared as well as the fine right ?

Article doesn’t make it clear other than being an Oops my bad have some money type reconciliation.

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The company runs a rehabilitation program to restore former mined sites, but a prominent botanist who once tried to aid those efforts now maintains it’s ineffective, and a growing chorus of Australian scientists join those criticisms.

Advertisements the company sponsored last summer promoting its rehabilitation program drew the attention of an ad standards watchdog, which issued a report stating “the advertisement was inaccurate and likely to mislead or deceive target consumers.”