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Australia's angry fire survivors blame council 'green' policy...
Drudge Report ^ | February 11, 2009 | the eagle has landed

Posted on 02/11/2009 9:01:52 PM PST by TheEaglehasLanded

Angry survivors blame council 'green' policy Andrea Petrie, Arthurs Creek February 11, 2009 Page 1 of 2 | Single Page View 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, Warwick Spooner — whose mother Marilyn and brother Damien perished along with their home in the Strathewen blaze — criticised the Nillumbik council for the limitations it placed on residents wanting the council's help or permission to clean up around their properties in preparation for the bushfire season. "We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down," he said.

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To: BlackVeil
“The council stood up in court and made us to look like the worst, wanton environmental vandals on the earth. We’ve got thousands of trees on our property. We cleared about 247,” he said.

I saw that couple interviewed on TV, they must have been in their 60's, to go through what they did, losing the court case, and having to pay costs, legal fees and fines to the total of one hundred thousand dollars at that age must have been dreadful. The woman never stopped crying during the interview. It was heart breaking to watch.

There have been firefighters who have commented that because they have been prevented from clearing fire-breaks and fire-trails, they have spent more time trying to access the fires than actually fighting the fires.

41 posted on 02/12/2009 1:52:56 AM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: A message

I really do believe Liberalism is a mental disease much the same as homosexuals


42 posted on 02/12/2009 1:59:38 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: DB; All

In Montana there is legislation to mandate that homeowners in the outskirts cut down and maintain a fire zone around their houses... with potential fines for not doing so.

Pros and cons, especially if the GREEN factor is considered: plant trees to shade the house.

Darned if you or don’t.


43 posted on 02/12/2009 2:30:11 AM PST by This_far
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To: Fred Nerks
Officials who prevented reasonable protective measures and contributed to the current death and destruction should be held accountable for their action. There needs to be a way to charge them with something like contributory negligence or manslaughter. Suing municipalities doesn't deter because it is your own tax dollars being used against you. Individual liability and judgments would deter, but attorneys and judges have to figure out how to make it so.
44 posted on 02/12/2009 2:35:52 AM PST by Truth29
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To: TheEaglehasLanded

bttt


45 posted on 02/12/2009 2:50:15 AM PST by Malsua
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To: DB

Drive a one inch steel pipe a few feet down as proximate to the root of the tree as you can. Pull the pipe out and pour in some “Blue Root” into the hole. Repeat as necessary. The old oak tree will become good firewood which will displace many btu’s of foriegn oil or domestic gas.


46 posted on 02/12/2009 4:02:10 AM PST by MSF BU (++)
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To: TheEaglehasLanded

how did so many people die? were there no warnings?


47 posted on 02/12/2009 4:06:58 AM PST by InvisibleChurch (Grace = unmerited favor; Mercy = punishment withheld)
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To: TheEaglehasLanded
Greenies say, you can't clear brush because it might disturb Bambi.
 
 
Bambi says, "Thank you".

48 posted on 02/12/2009 4:30:19 AM PST by dinasour
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To: TheEaglehasLanded

INDEED.

. . . I hope they insist that the folks responsible have to leave their properties maximum tender-boxes.

Actually, I’m not quite that harsh but I wouldn’t protest, if they did.


49 posted on 02/12/2009 4:34:02 AM PST by Quix (LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: TheEaglehasLanded
"We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down," he said.

Says it all! The greenies are killing people with their asinine regulations.

50 posted on 02/12/2009 4:46:10 AM PST by rawhide
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To: A message
Environmentalists kill people !

Again !

51 posted on 02/12/2009 5:19:43 AM PST by Red Boots
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder; DB

Under penalty of jail?

My point is, what real power do they have here? It’s your #@!$#@$ property ffs.

If that’s the case, get the hell out of there - fast.


52 posted on 02/12/2009 5:37:29 AM PST by TheZMan (Secede.)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Eucs are basically designed to feed Koalas and spread wildfires. Here (No. CA) they are considered weeds. You may note the rabid exception in the Walnut Creek tree regs I listed earlier excepting “Blue Gum” trees. You cut down some number of Eucalyptus trees and they will channel Barbara Boxer into your chainsaw, and two hairy Berkeley graduates will come and interview you on videotape about your work with non-native species for the local community access channel. After the interview, they’ll ask for a group hug and invite you on a whale-hugging biodiversity expedition.


53 posted on 02/12/2009 6:31:18 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
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To: TheEaglehasLanded

One of the thing I love about Aussies... they get right to the point.


54 posted on 02/12/2009 6:55:38 AM PST by ArmstedFragg
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To: InvisibleChurch
how did so many people die? were there no warnings?

They have a program called "Go Early or Stay and Defend". Fast moving blaze defeated 'go early', and 'stay and defend' doesn't work when the BTU's get higher than your ability to cool them. Lots of amateurs got way over their heads. In my California town, we call the program "Go Early or Stay and Decease".

55 posted on 02/12/2009 7:07:29 AM PST by ArmstedFragg
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To: MSF BU
That just makes it a bigger fire hazard until the tree is finally dead and you can legally remove it.
56 posted on 02/12/2009 11:51:16 AM PST by DB
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To: BlackVeil

They should sue to get all their money back now that the truth is obvious to all.

And sadly, it is no different here in California.


57 posted on 02/12/2009 11:56:19 AM PST by DB
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To: This_far

We are mandated by law to clear 100 feet around any structure as a fire protection zone here as well.

Just can’t touch a tree...


58 posted on 02/12/2009 11:58:45 AM PST by DB
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To: ArmstedFragg; InvisibleChurch

There were 60+ mph winds in the fire zone. The fire literally moved faster than many could drive their cars on the roads there. In addition apparently the winds changed direction radically and quickly causing the expected path the for fire to be entirely wrong meaning there was virtually no warning in the new direction.

So in other words, I wouldn’t blame the victims in this case.


59 posted on 02/12/2009 12:04:15 PM PST by DB
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To: TheEaglehasLanded
"We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down,"

Tin foil hat time people. And yes, it's my tin foil and my hat. This has been going on in California for years. The problem is many of us, including the great Rush Limbaugh, have concluded that these are simply misguided policies. I think they know exactly what they're doing. The massive California wildfires destroy homes. The environmentalists don't want the homes protected. They want the homes burned so people will abandon the areas and they can become ecologically "pure" again.

I don't know enough about Australia to understand all the politics, but I suspect the same is true there. They don't want people living in the country. They want them living in the city. They want it to be impossible to protect the houses.

60 posted on 02/12/2009 12:12:49 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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