23 September 2011

Why are we waiting for Mitchell fire results?

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The Greens’ Shane Rattenbury has been rattling Simon Corbell’s cage on why a week later we’re yet to find out what we were breathing on Friday in the wake of the massive chemical fire in Mitchell (bearing in mind the plant was storing one of the worst pollutants known to man and the smoke pictures appear to indicate not all of the fire was of a uniform fuel or temperature).

“It’s now been a week since the fire, and we know the Government received test results for the Mitchell area back last Sunday – why haven’t they been made publically available?” Mr Rattenbury said.

“The government promised transparency, and yet a week after the fire the community has not received the information they need to be reassured that there are no risks.

“I would ask the Government to release the full results, including the raw data, with details of where the samples were taken from.

“The best way to reassure the community that there is no risk is to release those results –the ACT Government has likely had all the data since Tuesday and yet still nothing has been made publically available.

“I’m concerned the Government are spending too much time ‘contextualising’ the results, whereas better community accountability would mean they just released them,” said Mr Rattenbury.

Simon Corbell has very quickly moved to explain why the data needs massaging:

“These are complex scientific measurements of chemical substances and I want to assure the Canberra community that these tests have been carried out thoroughly,” said Mr Corbell.

“It is imperative that the test results from this incident are accompanied with a full explanation of what they mean for the Canberra community.”

“I am committed to ensuring the results are clear, accurate and transparent. I maintained throughout this incident that all test results would be made public once they were completed and I stand by this commitment.”

“Final quality assurance from the NSW Environment Protection Authority is currently underway and once this is completed the Government will make the results, including the explanation, available to the public.”

“At this stage the relevant Authorities are finalising their work and the results may be available to the community as early as this afternoon.”

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Pandanus77 said :

I’d challenge anyone who has ever collected field data to have a one week turn about for data analysis and full report. Bloody pathetic mob they are.

Well it looks like they have achieved the impossible turnaround time…results are up http://www.environment.act.gov.au/mitchell_fire_enquiries/sampling_results

Bloody greens, still no idea about science or how it works, they embaress themselves every time they open their mouths. I’d challenge anyone who has ever collected field data to have a one week turn about for data analysis and full report. Bloody pathetic mob they are.

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zippyzippy said :

I’m just wondering if the Liberal Party is doing anything or asking any questions on this. I haven’t heard a thing from them about it.

Is there a Liberal Party in Canberra? I’ve seen no evidence of its existence…

I think there’s a hologram called Zed who manifests occasionally. But I may be imagining it.

p1 said :

Is there a Liberal Party in Canberra? I’ve seen no evidence of its existence…

I’m sure there used to be…they’ll probably turn up in trace amounts in the analysis of the smoke.

zippyzippy said :

I’m just wondering if the Liberal Party is doing anything or asking any questions on this. I haven’t heard a thing from them about it.

Is there a Liberal Party in Canberra? I’ve seen no evidence of its existence…

Yeah, I’d like to know the answers.

I’m just wondering if the Liberal Party is doing anything or asking any questions on this. I haven’t heard a thing from them about it.

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