Re: Australian Fires
Who's palm is he greasing. Below are the true facts of the matter.
"These comments have been made by a senior business man residing in
Queensland who worked in the saw-milling industry for 40 years.
These fires are a product of miss management of our forests and land
management over a long period. Australia burns and has done so long before
European settlement.
The Governments have used the Greens to keep in power and the policies of
the Greens have been to lock our parks up with no management. Successive
governments State and Federal have agreed to this policy despite Foresters
and industry warning of the catastrophe they were making.
All management for fire reduction has been stopped or so little it made no
difference. There developed so much fuel in these forests that when the
conditions were right they just became impossible to fight the fire storm.
Land owners were not allowed to clean their land in any sort of fire hazard
reduction. Also with the Tree change population they built homes in amongst
the forests with scrubs and trees up to their homes.
Somehow they thought it would be all right.
At home here I am concerned as the park in front of us has not had a hazard
reduction burn in 16 years the fuel load on the ground is very high just
waiting for a spark to light it up.
Don't think for one minute that this is a result of Climate Change. It is a
result of failed government policies led by the green members of Government
over many years.
Yes. the failing to listen to the many experts about the growing fuel volume
in the National Parks, State parks, and on private property.
You may have seen photos of the devastation on Kangaroo Island. We were
there in 2018 and this resort had this scrub so thick you could not walk
through it surrounding it. It was sitting on top of a fire storm in the
waiting for the right conditions. Thousands of livestock were burnt to death
in this fire and untold native animals. All could have been prevented. One
land holder who has been devastated said we used to be able to manage our
properties and have hazard reduction burns but we have been prevented from
doing this for some years.
I feel for those who have lost everything believing that the lock up and do
nothing was the right thing to manage the Australian bush.
Well it isn't, these fires have been before and inquiry after inquiry have
confirmed the need for fuel reduction burns in the parks and let the land
owners manager their properties. Nothing was done and this is the result.
Nothing To Do With Climate Change, it will be said it is, but that is for
the Governments and political parties to duck from the where the blame lies.
In the Northern Territory it is normal that the bush is set on fire every 2 years
either naturally or by the Aborigines or the locals.and it does not damage the trees as
there is not enough fuel for it to get too hot.and within weeks there are green shoots
coming up everywhere.
Unfortunately in this World today extremists on both sides want to rule and it takes a
very astute person to be able to go down the middle and get agreement on both sides."
Amen to that.