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on Feb 10, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Here is a report by a bushfire expert on the fire risk in Nillumbik, written in 2003:
The Shire of Nillumbik is living on borrowed time. If the current drought ends the threat for now will end. That would then give the Shire time to improve its fire protection to an acceptable level.
A prohibi ...
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on Feb 11, 2009 at 7:23 AM
From the Age
ANGRY residents last night accused local authorities of contributing to the bushfire toll by failing to let residents chop down trees and clear up bushland that posed a fire risk.
During question time at a packed community meeting in Arthurs Creek on Melbourne's northern fringe, ...
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on Feb 11, 2009 at 12:51 AM
Good find, It's also worth noting that the Eucalyptus canopy has been growing faster than ever, due to the greater concentrations of CO2 in the air. Even more reason for them to properly manager their environment. I'm from New Zealand and was in secondary school in the early 70's and can remember le ...
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on Feb 11, 2009 at 3:57 AM
I heard on the news today about a council meeting they had in that shire last night, where surviving residents were very vocal in their condemnation of the council and it's murderous policies of not clearing brush away from dwellings and not removing dead trees. Some of the people had lost family as ...
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on Feb 11, 2009 at 7:21 AM
Gary
I would have thought that one could make a reasonable case of criminal negligence, although experience suggests that politicians are never held responsible for anything, ever. It's called democratic accountability.
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on Feb 11, 2009 at 11:02 AM
The same thing happened in California years back. The moonbat Liberals made it illegal to clean combustible materiel away from homes...the result was the lose of thousands of home over the years. They even attempted "controlled burns" which got out of control in several cases and burned th ...
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on Feb 11, 2009 at 5:36 PM
I believe something of the same has been seen in California. "Environmental" objections to keeping forests clean have resulted in fire spreading faster, reaching higher temperatures, and making access for firefighting more difficult.
Of course, just as if you build a house on a flood plai ...
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on Feb 11, 2009 at 5:50 PM
There's a really excellent book called Nature's Keepers by Stephen Budiansky which covers issues around land management in wild places. Wildfire is one big issue, the other is restrictions on culling wild animals.
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on Feb 11, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Apologies. I posted my comment, then scrolled on and found the point made several times already.
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on Feb 10, 2009 at 7:11 PM
It was the greens :
THE shire council covering some of the areas hit hardest by the bushfires was warned five years ago that its policy of encouraging people to grow trees near their homes to give the appearance of a forest would lead to disaster.
One of Australia's leading bushfire experts, R ...
