on 28-01-2013 05:36 PM
I don't get it ... we have floods and fires and droughts and we have inquiries about them, but nothing happens.
Couldn't we move the water around to help with fires and droughts? Couldn't we store some of the water from rain and flood to assist in droughts and fires? Couldn't we put systems in place to be prepared for natural catastrophes? Couldn't we do more to prepare for fires BEFORE they happen? Couldn't we make dams bigger, or make more dams, or store the water to prevent flooding?
Why do we just let disasters happen again and again and again?
Solved! Go to Solution.
on 29-01-2013 12:02 PM
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/21/3169398.htm?site=gippsland
Further fuel reduction burns planned for East Gippsland
Posted March 21, 2011 13:41:00
The Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) has answered criticism that it is burning too much animal and plant habitat as part of its fuel reduction program this year.
Orbost manager Steve DeVoogd says the department is doing a number of large burns up to 50,000 hectares.
He says the larger burns are done as a patchwork to increase the survival rates of the flora and fauna.
He says some of the smaller burns to protect towns remove a greater percentage of the fuel load.
"I think it's quite a crude descriptor to say we're lighting the edges and bombing the guts out of it. There's a lot more planning and implementation going in than that," he said.
The DSE is planning three fuel reduction burns in East Gippsland today.
Fire crews are preparing to light two burns near Yarram, one 16 kilometres north-east of Yarram and one 12 kilometres north-east of Won Wron.
Firefighters are planning to light a third burn six kilometres south-east of Briagolong.
Smoke is expected to be seen in Yarram, Rosedale, Sale, Stratford, Briagolong and Stockdale.
This was 2011
on 28-01-2013 05:44 PM
Shakes head and rolls eyes !!!!
on 28-01-2013 05:49 PM
Its climate change.
They did do something - they taxed us for it :^O
on 28-01-2013 05:55 PM
I don't see why areas that get flooded repeatedly can't have something done there...building stopbanks or something.
Droughts and fires... not much can be done to prevent those...especially bush fires.. no one knows where they are going to start.
on 28-01-2013 06:03 PM
Bushfires generally start in the bush
on 28-01-2013 06:08 PM
I have lived in Rockhampton for 25 years. Everytime there is a flood we are cut off from the rest of the country. At the moment, we have no eftpos in town - we also have no bread, milk, toilet paper, fresh fruit or vegetables to buy. And if you could buy them you would need cash. We have had intermittent power, water, telephone for the last 3 days.
For 25 years there has been talk of raising the main road into town (which is built on a flood plain) to be flood proof. Why hasn't the government done anything? Because we have very poor representation in all levels of government. All Labour, and they just dont want to spend the money on a safe seat.
on 28-01-2013 06:13 PM
I always wondered why the Gold Coast Council let developers build on Floods Plains on the Gold Coast.
You can only do so much against Climate, but some times you would think the council would not allow places that have flooded in the past to be built on.
on 28-01-2013 06:16 PM
they used to do something about bushfires, it was called backburning.
on 28-01-2013 06:25 PM
Bushfires generally start in the bush
I think we all know that. What we don't know is what location one may start in... how can you prevent something if you don't know where abouts it is going to start?
on 28-01-2013 06:31 PM
They should have a lottery with ALL profits going into a national emergency relief fund.