Coroner & Legal
Shameful!
Garry Stannus
I immediately think of controlled burns, and of the huge amount of smoke that is released into the atmosphere. I think of the asthma sufferers living in fear of death because of these disgusting practices. Forestry does not acknowledge that there is anything wrong with these burns, and the EPA, by handing over to Forestry, is doing a ‘Pontius Pilate’ – delivering the citizens of this state into the hands of those who can commit arson ‘legally’. One only has to visit Clive Stott’s Cleanair site and view the correspondence to realise that these forestry people and politicians have weighed up the pros and cons, and have decided that Clive and people like him … are expendable. When it comes down to it, faced with having to choose between controlled burns versus Clive having to be admitted to hospital emergency, they choose to continue the smoke-burns. That is shameful. Read more, Comment here