Images taken from the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission have resulted in an Australian local government organization being fined for illegal clearing and breaching environmental protection laws. The Shire of Lake Grace council in Western Australia was fined AUD75,000 after being found guilty of unauthorized clearing of native vegetation and was also ordered to pay AUD788 in court costs. The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER) took legal action based on evidence provided through accessing satellite images from Copernicus Sentinel-2. The images detected that native bushland was being cleared without permits to extract gravel for roadworks.