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Environmentalists lose legal bid to stop logging operations in northern NSW
Summary by Ground News
The North East Regional Forestry Agreement was originally signed in 2000 and renewed in 2018. The North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) asked the Federal Court to declare that the renewed agreement did not meet the definition of such agreements under relevant laws. Justice Melissa Perry today rejected that argument and ruled the requirement to assess environmental values applied only when the intergovernmental agreement began.