BUSHFIRES: Greens adopt tobacco lobby tactics*

The green lobby’s tactics to virtually halt fuel-reduction measures in Australian forests, around homes and along roadways, are eerily similar to tactics employed by the powerful tobacco lobby. Patrick J. Byrne reports.This photo, taken of the hills to the west of the Myrtleford-Beechworth Road, north-eastern Victoria, shows the value of fuel reduction. The hills to the right (going north) had controlled burns last winter, but the left-hand side of the hill (going south) did not. When the Februa…

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