01-19-2020, 11:11 PM
How the f... does Dan Andrews escape massive scrutiny re the bush fires (ditto the NSW Premier). No fan of Scomo but forests are a State Government issue....his head should be the first to roll. I guess the Libs have been silent as they don't want to rock Gladys' boat....
Shame on the lot of them.
The 2010 Victorian Royal Commission recommended the “state fund and commit to implementing a long-term program of prescribed burning based on an annual rolling target of 5 per cent minimum of public land” - equal to 385,000ha annually.
It appears the State Government here abandoned hectare-based targets in 2015, opting for a ‘computer modelled measure of residual risk’ ....WHY?
Using the Royal Commission’s target of a minimum of 390,000Ha of annual hazard reduction burns across Victoria, the actual planned burnt areas were;
2018-19 : 130,000 Deficit- 260,000
2017-18: 74,728 Deficit- 315,272
2016-17 : 125,052 Deficit- 264,948
2015-16 : 197,940 Deficit- 192,060
A cumulative deficit over the last 4 years in Victoria of over one million hectares of land.
And they knew from their mapping that fuel load issue was a major problem again.
And it appears the NSW Government was just as bad!
Shame on the lot of them.
The 2010 Victorian Royal Commission recommended the “state fund and commit to implementing a long-term program of prescribed burning based on an annual rolling target of 5 per cent minimum of public land” - equal to 385,000ha annually.
It appears the State Government here abandoned hectare-based targets in 2015, opting for a ‘computer modelled measure of residual risk’ ....WHY?
Using the Royal Commission’s target of a minimum of 390,000Ha of annual hazard reduction burns across Victoria, the actual planned burnt areas were;
2018-19 : 130,000 Deficit- 260,000
2017-18: 74,728 Deficit- 315,272
2016-17 : 125,052 Deficit- 264,948
2015-16 : 197,940 Deficit- 192,060
A cumulative deficit over the last 4 years in Victoria of over one million hectares of land.
And they knew from their mapping that fuel load issue was a major problem again.
And it appears the NSW Government was just as bad!
Finals, then 4 in a row!