Brazilian farmer fined 50 million for damage to climate.

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What you will never hear is what became of that cleared 13000 acres. Suspect that some politician-justice elite can now move in to grow corn and beans.

No transitional zone here as was only populated by trees along the river system. Trees/poplar weed showed up after sod turning. Those suckers sucker system never existed. Where is the EU evidence that ridding a tree weed that imported itself into the area is any different than controlling a wild oat?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

What you will never hear is what became of that cleared 13000 acres. Suspect that some politician-justice elite can now move in to grow corn and beans.

There's definitely more to this story. This wasn't a mom and pop ranch that snuck out overnight and cleared 13,000 hectares with a chainsaw without anyone noticing.

This must have taken years or decades with a very large staff. Knowing how business works in brazil, some of the appropriate local authorities must have been bribed to look the other way.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Now that the precedent has been set that punishment for burning forests as a crime against the climate, that should be proportionate to its social cost of carbon released, how soon before the activist arsonists in the first world get sentenced accordingly? And what about their sponsors, enablers and supporters?

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Fine is getting less per acre all the time. Makes sense that it should have been by the hectare in Brazil. An LSD move and I could pay the fine!

[poorboy]

And how many farms in Canada are farming the crown owned road allowance or have their fields creeping into the road ditch. hmm

[1ABFRMR]

and how many farms in canada are farming the crown owned road allowance or have their fields creeping into the road ditch. Hmm

you could call it controlling the weeds

[AlbertaFarmer5]

And how many farms in Canada are farming the crown owned road allowance or have their fields creeping into the road ditch. hmm

I inquired about this once. And there is a procedure at the county level to get permission to farm an unused road allowance. And if there are trees to remove that is a different procedure altogether at the provincial level.

[WiltonRanch]

I respect the territory of our great sovereign but his representatives sure as hell don’t control the noxious weeds. If I were king I’d be bringing them in and sentencing them to the pillory or stocks.

[blueversi]

you could call it controlling the weeds

Yup. Our farm access roads without a residence don’t get mowed until late fall and sometimes every other year at that. By that time willows and weeds are out of control so having crop as close to the road is advantageous here

[westernvicki]

Read Bill C 293.