I think that's the point. For Google billions is the cost of doing business. For the contractors it could be criminal negligence which means personal liability.

For google its a slap on the wrist, for a construction contractor you might just bankrupt them out of existence with a big enough fine.

They were probably paid way more to clear it than fines would amount to.

Did you see the size of that forest? Nothing small-time about that. 330 hectar, 250000 trees. Of course going after google has priority, but companies need to be scared to do things like this without checking very thoroughly that they are allowed to do it, otherwise anyone can just do anything and claim ignorance afterwards. There should be prison time for everyone who greenlit this.