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Another "reactive" media release from the Logging Industry - this got a run on ABC 774 radio this morning.
People are making the obvious link between catchment destruction by fire and the loss of water
So the industry is now desperately trying to reframe themselves as protectors of catchment rather than destroyers.
Some points for letter writers:
In the search to find a scapegoat in the ashes of Victoria's Black Saturday fires, the environment movement became an almost immediate target. Green groups have been accused of unduly influencing state governments to wind back controlled burning in large areas of public forested lands.
Last Thursday, we spoke to former CSIRO bushfire researcher Phil Cheney, who blamed the build-up of forest fuels for the severity and extent of the Victorian fires. But Brendan Mackey, Professor of Environmental Science at the ANU, says that's 'scientifically wrong'. On the basis of his research in Victoria, he says extreme weather events are linked to the recent unprecedented spate of megafires in south east Australia, three in the past six years.
On 9 February Allan Hansard said: "this is no time to be laying blame, or pointing the finger." Apparently a week later, it was perfectly fine to be laying blame.Read More
February 10, 2009
Article from: The Australian
Clive Hamilton, in yesterday's Crikey, says bushfires are caused by climate change, but the PM won't talk about it.
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Miranda Devine
February 12, 2009
It wasn't climate change which killed as many as 300 people in Victoria last weekend. It wasn't arsonists. It was the unstoppable intensity of a bushfire, turbo-charged by huge quantities of ground fuel which had been allowed to accumulate over years of drought. It was the power of green ideology over government to oppose attempts to reduce fuel hazards before a megafire erupts, and which prevents landholders from clearing vegetation to protect themselves. Read More
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