It’s the nypost. They don’t have journalists.

Anyway if you read the original guardian piece it does seem this was deemed illegal. The related government department halted their work saying it was not permitted. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/...

> Earlier this month, Google was ordered by the Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority (LVV) to temporarily stop work on Muhos and another site about 100km south-east in the village of Otanmäki after it failed to complete the necessary environmental impact assessments before clearcutting the land