There’s an urge to fuel reduction burn, but not to learn FOR three years the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission’s independent monitor Neil Comrie has strongly advised the Victorian Government to abandon one of the commission’s recommendations: the call to burn 390,000ha of public land annually for fuel reduction. Yet (Victorian) Environment Minister Ryan Smith is sticking to that target and, even more puzzling, DEPI plans to increase that annual target to an extraordinary 450,000ha. weeklytimesnow.au/news/opinion/theres-an-urge-to-fuel-reduction-burn-but-not-to-learn/story-fnkerdb0-1227037499666
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 07:33:06 +0000