Thanks, UN!
enviro-fasciste strike again
Tragedy compounded.
ANGRY residents last night accused local authorities of contributing to the bushfire toll by failing to let residents chop down trees and clear up bushland that posed a fire risk....
“We’ve lost two people in my family because you dickheads won’t cut trees down,” [Warwick Spooner —whose mother Marilyn and brother Damien perished along with their home in the Strathewen blaze --] said…
“We wanted trees cut down on the side of the road … and you can’t even cut the grass for God’s sake.”
...Another resident said she had asked the council four times to tend to out-of-control growth on public land near her home, but her pleas had been ignored.
There was widespread applause when Nillumbik Mayor Bo Bendtsen said changes were likely to be made about the council’s policy surrounding native vegetation.
But his response was not good enough for Mr Spooner: “It’s too late now mate. We’ve lost families, we’ve lost people."
The same thing happened - on a much smaller scale - here in CA, in Laguna Beach, when they had the fires a few years ago. Turned out the local zoning commissars wouldn’t let homeowners clear a fire-break. The fire took care of that - there were lots of fire-breaks afterwards.
Last year, in a town near here (Placentia/Yorba Linda), there was another pretty serious fire. The fire dep’t couldn’t put it out because there weren’t no water.
Seems the ever-vigilant City Fathers decided they’d rather spend the money that was spozed to go to a big reservoir on something more beautifying.
The problem with bright people being too smart to want to get into government is that the result is that it’s the blockheads that do get in.
Posted by ZZMike on 02/13/09 at 03:32 PM
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