Cutting Woodland For Bottled Water?

Yorkshire's Harrogate Spring Water is owned by Danone. This company is planning to cut down a woodland of circa 450 trees planted by primary school children almost 20 years ago. Danone wants to expand its bottling factory in Harrogate. Some of the now mature children are upset at the proposed destruction of their handiwork (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/09/harrogate-spring-water-planning-to-cut-down-wood-schoolchildren-bottling-plant. It seems inappropriate to replace trees with an expanded facility for bottling water. Mature trees are needed to help resist the impact of climate change. Increasing the numbers of plastic bottles of water does the complete opposite. Money talks louder than ecology?