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Although the following links focus on the recent, "It's all the greenies fault," rhetoric that has been sweeping through Facebook and other places the last coup

Although the following links focus on the recent, "It's all the greenies fault," rhetoric that has been sweeping through Facebook and other places the last couple of days, it does also provide information about hazard reduction burns from people who work in the field (AKA experts). https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/12/is-there-really-a-green-conspiracy-to-stop-bushfire-hazard-reduction https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/12/is-th... https://nitter.net/jagungal1/status/1212937426034782208 https://nitter.net/jagungal1/status/1212937426034782208

lazyjones 7y ago
Another source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/prescribed-burning-key-to-controlling-fires-20191129-p53f9o.html https://www.smh.com.au/national/prescribed-burning-key-to-co... ''Fire captain Brian Williams, 73, vice-president of the Volunteer Fire Fighters Association, supports the prescribed burn argument. He spoke after a 12-hour night shift fighting the Three Mile fire burning north-east of Wiseman's Ferry. Mr Williams said: "The hazard-approval process is what is stuffing the whole process. "It is bogged down by green [environmental] and red tape which makes getting approval for a prescribed burn a very slow and complex process. "They have introduced a system that makes it virtually impossible to manage the bush in a sustainable way. I am just one of thousands of volunteers out there who are frustrated."''