Environmental disasters and what we learn from them
Not much ---if the lack of discussion about Thredbo on its anniversary is any indication.
QUESTION What have the Tasmanian and Nsw government got in common on this day ( in the last days of July 2007 )
ANSWER Lessons for all thinking Australians about the incompetence of env planning in Australia.The Same avoidable snowing, stupidity, distraction, ignorance and crying wolf, 10 years on .How do find wolves - use a wolf catcher!
THE PAST The Coronial enquiry established that THE PUBLIC SERVICE PROCESS WAS UNABLE to anticipate a high risk developing unecessarily on a low landslide risk site at Thredbo.
THE PRESENT Tasmanias 10000 pages(Gunns mill docs) are not the way to prescribe a problem - they describe the problem . Experience and exposure can provide much more confidence, at much less expense.
The problem :- Environmental risk assessment processes that don't work (and cost not only the earth or some sick water but 18 Australians and their families )
Australias biggest env disaster-was Thredbo but what reporter has asked the obvious question - how can we learn from this unecessary disaster.
A brief for the Thredbo enquiry ( click here) made days after the disaster, proved after all the 10000 and more pages to be a demonstration that appropropriate risk assessor engagement can cut to the essential risks in any proposal. That small 2 page report prempted the key outcomes of the Coronial enquiry - but has any journo read this on the 10 yr anniversary? beats trying to read 10000.
10 years, and millions of taxpayers dollars later, the public deserve to know how the lessons of Australias biggest environmental disaster could apply to env minister's most real risk; TO have another snow job ; another ross kelly "pin the tail on the donkey" or another trumped up parroter of panic merchants; another mr lennon on his own.
The next journo to ask the question about where its all going and take some notes- will help, not only Mr lennon, but every environmental and planning minister in this country.Copyright emperors academy mreforce@telstra.com
QUESTION What have the Tasmanian and Nsw government got in common on this day ( in the last days of July 2007 )
ANSWER Lessons for all thinking Australians about the incompetence of env planning in Australia.The Same avoidable snowing, stupidity, distraction, ignorance and crying wolf, 10 years on .How do find wolves - use a wolf catcher!
THE PAST The Coronial enquiry established that THE PUBLIC SERVICE PROCESS WAS UNABLE to anticipate a high risk developing unecessarily on a low landslide risk site at Thredbo.
THE PRESENT Tasmanias 10000 pages(Gunns mill docs) are not the way to prescribe a problem - they describe the problem . Experience and exposure can provide much more confidence, at much less expense.
The problem :- Environmental risk assessment processes that don't work (and cost not only the earth or some sick water but 18 Australians and their families )
Australias biggest env disaster-was Thredbo but what reporter has asked the obvious question - how can we learn from this unecessary disaster.
A brief for the Thredbo enquiry ( click here) made days after the disaster, proved after all the 10000 and more pages to be a demonstration that appropropriate risk assessor engagement can cut to the essential risks in any proposal. That small 2 page report prempted the key outcomes of the Coronial enquiry - but has any journo read this on the 10 yr anniversary? beats trying to read 10000.
10 years, and millions of taxpayers dollars later, the public deserve to know how the lessons of Australias biggest environmental disaster could apply to env minister's most real risk; TO have another snow job ; another ross kelly "pin the tail on the donkey" or another trumped up parroter of panic merchants; another mr lennon on his own.
The next journo to ask the question about where its all going and take some notes- will help, not only Mr lennon, but every environmental and planning minister in this country.Copyright emperors academy mreforce@telstra.com
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