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Patersonia Smoke Diary
Download 1: 2007 - 25/4/2008
Download 2: 29/4/2008 - 5/6/2008
Download 3: 6/6/2008 - 16/10/2008
Downlaod 4: 17/10/2008 - 30/10/2008
http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php?/article/quality-air-tasmania/Smoke Watch
Episode 6: May 2009 (2Mb)
You may wish to contact any or all of the people below if you feel
you or your family are affected/subjected to forestry smoke.
Please keep a copy of all correspondence, it may be of interest to share with others.
Asthma Foundation of Tasmania
National Asthma
Council Australia
The Australian Lung Foundation
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Cystic Fibrosis
Heart Foundation of Australia
Cancer Council of Tasmania
Lara Giddings - Tasmanian State
Minister for Health and Human Services.
Dr Roscoe Taylor
Michelle O’Byrne
Phone 1800 671 738 Public and Environmental Health Service Hotline
available 24 Hours a day/7 Days a week.
Phone::1800 005 171 The Environment Division
available 24 hours/7 days a week.
Contact your local Federal
Member of Parliament.
and both the
Hon Peter
Garrett - Federal Minister for the Environment and
Prime Minister - Julia Gillard PM
Media
Mercury Examiner Tasmanian Times Advocate Australian Newspapers Online ABC Northern Tas
I am not a member of any political party or any organisation, however,
the following people have come out in support of my right to breathe clean air. We should
all thank them very much!
Please contact me to if you feel you qualify for listing.
Other Australian Links
The Forest Stewardship
Council (FSC) promotes responsible management of the world’s forests.
Forests
and Forestry Industry Council of Tasmania. (FFIC)
Environment Protection Authority (EPA)
EPA Western Australia
Biomass Power
Environment Division
- Tourism, Arts and the Environment, Tasmania.
FPA - Roles and Responsibilities
FPA & EPA Memorandum of Understanding 2009
FPA - Smoke Management from Planned
Burns 2009
Forestry
Tasmania - Stewardship Report 2009
Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC)
EPHC - Committee members 2008/09
Minister for Environment -Hansard
on smoke
Hansard
22/8/2007
enHealth Environmental Health, plus the latest National Environmental Health
Strategy 2007-2012
Smoking out Tasmanians - Daily information on planned burns
No need to burn smoky forestry waste, yes
forestry said it.
Malcolm
Tattersall Forestry - A photographic
souvenir.
Discover Tasmania - Gordon Craven
National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) - Why isn't
it mandatory for all forestry smoke to be included?
Emission
of smoke from heaters, fireplaces, barbecues Part 3/9 - Laws for some and not
for others
SMART BURN - Eco-Friendly Chimney Flue Cleaning product which reduces
wood smoke emissions.
Woodsmoke Handbook 2003 National
Heritage Trust
Forest Practices Authority (FPA)
Regulates forestry in Tasmania....but not the smoke.
State
of the Air Community Summary 1991-2001-Federal Department of Environment
Tas Fire Service (TFS)- Smoke and Asthma. We know the theory BUT "Best
practice" is a joke
Using fire in Forestry - Chuter
Air
Quality explained by world experts.
Armidale Air Quality Site - Information and links.
Launceston Air Quality
Group.
Environment Tasmania Inc.
Modelling smoke dispersal in the
Bureau of Meteorology
Good Neighbour Charter 2008 - Tas Forest
Industries
Freedom
of Information documents released.by Forestry Tasmania.
Environmental Defenders Office - Environmental
law centres.
Smoke
Forum 2009
Air Quality in Tasmania - An education resource
Clean Air Society
Standards/Codes/Acts
World Health Organisation (WHO) Air Quality
Guidelines Global Update 2005
Air Quality Standards - Australia
Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act
(EMPCA) - 1994
Enforcement Policy 2004 of the
above EMPCA 1994
Environment Protection Authority (EPA)
Statement of Expectation
Environment Protection Policy (Air
Quality) 2004 Planned burning provisions are not directly enforceable- EPA
EPA Statement of Intent
17.2.2009
Summary of Submissions on the Establishment
of a Tasmanian EPA
Tasmanian
Air Quality Strategy
Environmental Management and
Pollution Control (Distributed Atmospheric Emissions) Regulations 2007
Forest Practices Act 1985
Regulation of Forest Practices in Tasmania
Forest Practices Amendment Bill 2005
Forest Practices
Administrative Reform Bill 2004
Draft Forest Industry
Standard for Prescribed Burning Practices
Forest Industry Standard for Prescribed Silvicultural Burning Practice 2009
Tasmanian Air Quality Strategy 2006
Forest Practices Code 2000
Forest Safety Code Tasmania 2007
Fire Service Act 1979
Fire Service Amendment Bill 2005
Fire Service Amendment Bill 2007
Smoke Monitoring Methods Review
2008 Accepted by the EPA. http://www.epa.tas.gov.au/file.aspx?id=926.
2008
FPA Smoke Strategy - Interim Smoke Dispersal Guidelines
2009
FPA Smoke Strategy - Interim Smoke Dispersal Guidelines
Planned burning in Tasmania (Deliberate
pernicious smoke).
Forest Industries
Parks and Wildlife
Tas Fire Service
Weather forecasts and history, and Satellite Images.
Launceston - todays weather forecast
Weather
history for Launceston plus other BoM monitoring stations in Australia.
Victoria- Outdoor air
quality upwind of Tasmania
Geostationary satellite data
archive - using MTSAT-1R
satellite.
Satellite images
- Australia wide from CSIRO marine using
Aqua http://aqua.nasa.gov/ and Terra http://terra.nasa.gov/ satelittes
Satellite images: Modis Rapid
Response - Tasmanian subsets
Satellite
images - Tasmania. Modis satelite
Modis Satellite Rapid Response - Calendar
Satellite images -
Sentinel
Satellite
hot-spot images
Australia- IR Satellite,
Synoptic.
Envisat- European
Space Agency.
EPA unvalidated real-time air pollution data for Tasmania.
Real-time air quality
data for Tasmania.
Real-time Tasmanian Air
Quality Data - Hobart, Launceston, and Rowella
BLANkET Data for Tasmania
EPA validated air pollution data for Tasmania.
Validated Pollution Data
for Launceston
Validated Pollution Data
for Hobart
George Town Air Monitoring
Station (GAMS)
World wide links
US Environmental Protection
Agency Ozone Generators
American Lung Association
Air cleaning devices...beware!
Clean Air Revival -
public education about the medical hazards of exposure to wood smoke
The Collaborative on Health and the
Environment (CHE)
Citizens for Environmental Health
Clean
Air Act Handbook
Environment
Canada - Harmful Particulate Matter
Prescribed burns in Arizona - It is all
about money not public health.
GASP
National Resources Defence Council
Industrial Air
Pollution and the country doctor
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