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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 18-Jun-2009 At 9:57:55 AM lacto

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during the early 70's there was great debate about the safety of asbestos and victoria was a heavy user in the new power stations and basically came up with scientific proof that blue asbestos was a real baddy but white asbestos was ok . They had a good number of scientists swearing that only blue had proved to be bad and white was ok . Governments had been sitting on reports about asbestos since the early 20th century. I know that 75 or 76 suddenly nobody could flue gas heaters as asbestos piping was stopped being made . Todays version on asbestos make Hardies to be the only bad guys whereas governments allowed them to operate and collect tax from them etc . Nearly every asbestos company in the world simply liquidated or closed and hardies are suddenly responsible for all compensation . scientists were right in their views? well some were some werent and we as a commmunity will pay the price for many years to come . Climate change could well be a repeat with many magnitudes greater effect and to all people not just those exposed to the danger