2009-03-03
STOP BUILDING BUSHFIRE FODDER
– Green Wedge groups say keep housing development out of the fire-prone areas.
State Government wants to change the native vegetation protection rules to encourage householders to clear more trees from around their houses (Land-clearing laws to change in wake of fires, The Age, 24/2) yet paradoxically also proposes to release another 23,000 hectares of green wedge land for development, much of it in fire-prone pastures and woodlands.
