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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Lisa Cox Environment and climate correspondent

Company linked to Angus Taylor offered ‘generous’ offset calculation after illegal land clearing, FoI letters reveal

Hill planted with with crops in foreground and grassed hill and bushland in the background
Jam Land property, which includes native grassland, near Delegate in New South Wales, is part-owned by Liberal frontbencher Angus Taylor. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

A company connected to the former federal energy minister Angus Taylor that was ordered to restore critically endangered grasslands was asked to do less than would have been required if it had sought approval before it poisoned them.

The federal environment department’s efforts to reach an agreement with Jam Land to compensate for the 28.5 hectares of clearing on a property in the New South Wales Monaro region are revealed in new documents released to Guardian Australia after a four-year freedom of information battle.

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