Monrovia, May 30 -- ArcelorMittal Liberia gave the Gba Community Forest US$150,000 to clear 450 acres for a waste plant, but locals misused the money Gba and Westwood Corporation signed an MoU to clear-cut the area anyway to make up for the stolen funds The deal includes an unspecified number of logs that a previous company had illegally harvested, costing the government revenue FDA authorized Westwood to skip harvesting requirements, including a mapping and GPS-recording of trees, undoing the immediate past administration's legal order Westwood exported the timber to Italy, though the harvesting breaks Liberia's timber trade agreement with the European Union By Esau J. Farr, with The DayLight

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