Sympathies and support to all of those members in their electorate. I want to thank you for the work you have done. The member raise the matter recommendations regarding the assets, what the government has done to respond to that with two separate actions of funding which matched what they originally asked for i dealt with this during the bushfire season, in addition to those funding allocations of 11 million, on top of that we announce that further 20 million over and above the 15 million being provided each and every year as part of the arrangement we had. We are pleased to do that. Ongoing funding was addressed in this years budget. The house of representatives, the primacy was asked about preparedness and how they acted on this, and related to the catastrophic season. The leader of the opposition. My question is addressed to the primacy. Does the primacy regret saying volunteer firefighters dont need economic compensation for lost income because they want to be out there. Once agai
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Stop at 11 00 am this morning, weve got a series of votes, ant we are going to observe an actual ten minute clock. Its the first time in senate history, but thats the goal this morning. So we want to be able to hear from everyone this morning, ande have an opportunity for the very, very important conversations regarding this issue. We are here today to discuss the impact of wildfires on the reliability of our electric grid and efforts to mitigate wildfire risk and increase grid resiliency. In recent years, devastating wildfires and related electricity blackouts in california have drawn National Attention to the challenge of maintaining grid resiliency in the face of extreme conditions. Tragically, we remember last years camp fire, the deadliest and most destructive fire inou california history, which incinerated the town of paradise, killed 85 people. Ve state investigators determined that the fire was caused by degraded, 97year old power lines during socalled fire weather, strong wind
Committee on the impact of wildfires on the electric grid. Atmakers are looking wildfire mitigation technology, Forest Management, and power system reliability. Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. A lot going on this morning so i think we will have people popping in and out but we do have a pretty hard stop at 11 00 this morning with a series of votes. We are going to observe an actual 10 minute clock. This is the goal. To be able to hear from everyone this morning and have an opportunity for the very, very, very important conversations regarding this issue. We are here to discuss the impact of wildfires on the reliability of our electric rate and efforts to mitigate wildfire risk and increase grid resiliency. In recent years, devastating wildfires and electricity blackouts in california have drawn National Attention to the challenge of maintaining grid resiliency in the face of extreme conditions. Tragically, we remember last years camp fire, the deadliest and most
Its being cold apocalyptic india is suffering unprecedented levels of their pollution with warnings of consequences for Peoples Health but what exactly is causing pollution there and across the region and whats being done to tackle this is inside story. But i want to welcome to the program im Darren Jordan indias top coach says new delhis choking every year and blames the State Government for failing to cut pollution the problem is so bad schools have been shut flights diverted and a Public Health emergency declared some experts say breathing the citys a is as bad as smoking 50 cigarettes a day and thats not just in the capital the World Health Organization says 13 other indian cities are mung the worlds 15 most polluted reports now from new delhi. This brown haze has enveloped new delhi anything above 400 on the citys quality index is considered very severe it. Has does have people it is bad every winter but this is the 1st time the government has declared a Public Health emergency. T