Peter and Jane Harris were also ordered to pay almost $500,000 in legal costs after two unsuccessful appeal attempts
Two prominent New South Wales irrigators have been ordered to pay more than $500,000 in fines and legal costs for illegally taking almost 2bn litres of water from the Barwon-Darling River system in 2016.judgment handed down by the land and environment court
In the sentencing decision, Justice John Robson said the pair were guilty of an offence against s.91G of the NSWManagement Act for taking water in contravention of a term of the water use approval. But he did not find they did so for financial gain. The Harrises were also ordered to pay WaterNSW’s legal costs for the five-year-long case, which amounted to at least $448,260, plus additional costs that are yet to be determined.
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