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Where there=E2=80=99s smoke =E2=80=A6 there=E2=80=99s = an agenda

Clive Stott
Tasmania has the highest rate of = asthma=20 in Australia and yet we have to put up with this renewed Forestry = propaganda=20 campaign to push planned burning, to generate smoke and to cause serious = ill=20 health to all Tasmanians, even themselves.

ONE WOULD have to view UTAS=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CSmoke Monitoring = Methods Review, 08/2008=E2=80=9D=20 (which was recently adopted by our Environmental Protection Authority) = with=20 suspicion.

Suspicion that has led me to these conclusions:

=E2=80=A2 I believe there is an agenda to stall clean air = technologies.
=E2=80=A2 I=20 believe the government, FPA, EPA, etc., get the reports they need to = justify=20 planned burning.
=E2=80=A2 But most seriously, I believe there is a = plan to destroy=20 our native animals and plants with fire, so that fire tolerant = plantation=20 species can flourish at the expense of all other living things, and in = doing so,=20 change Tasmania=E2=80=99s whole ecology, not just our plant ecology. =

Everybody knows last year was the worst year on record for forestry = smoke in=20 Tasmania and yet there was supposedly only one exceedence of the = national air=20 quality standards. How come? Either the monitoring equipment was faulty, = the=20 results were misinterpreted, or the results were misquoted. There is = every=20 possibility this will happen again, right?.

And in relation to, =E2=80=9Cthe public frequently expressing = concerns about planned=20 burning=E2=80=A6=E2=80=9D the report wants to, =E2=80=9C=E2=80=A6 = monitor the pollution so as to reassure the=20 public of the benefits of prescribed burning.=E2=80=9D That says it all. =

Forestry must really be worried about everyone kicking up a stink = about their=20 harmful stinky burning practices, and rightly so. Have a look at the = free talks=20 they are giving in 2008/09:-

Living in a Flammable Landscape- why Tasmania is the origin of a = global=20 theory of fire, How flora and Fauna survive fire, Why we use fire in = forest=20 management, & Why things go wrong WITHOUT fire.

Check them out at http://www.forestrytas.com.au/science/forestry-talks/forestry= -talks-2008-09=20

Tasmania has the highest rate of asthma in Australia and yet we have = to put=20 up with this renewed Forestry propaganda campaign to push planned = burning, to=20 generate smoke and to cause serious ill health to all Tasmanians, even=20 themselves.

The lifetime of PM2.5 particulate pollution which can cause asthma = and=20 ultimately lead to death, is from days to weeks and their travel = distance ranges=20 from 100 to greater than 1000 kilometres (NRDC, 2000).

Forestry smoke contains the same particle pollution and toxins as = cigarette=20 smoke. Cigarette smoke is being taken seriously, Why not forestry smoke? = The=20 Asthma Foundation of Tasmania refuses to lobby for its members to have = this=20 smoke stopped.

The World Health Organisation says =E2=80=9C=E2=80=A6there is no safe = level of fine particle=20 pollution.=E2=80=9D Forestry need to put that in their pipe and smoke = it.

Clive Stott
http://www.cleanairtas.com/ =

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