Firefighting Foam Policy – Queensland Gov. +

  A Queensland Government Paper

We thank The Queensland Government for this research.

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Comprehensive and very interesting.
(Publication reprint .002)

   AN EXTRACT FROM THE ABOVE:

– Revision 2

    ” … Many pollutants released into the environment can be expected to naturally degrade over time or to become immobilised, for example, by adsorption to sediments, microbial degradation, oxidation, reduction, hydrolysis, UV photo-degradation, hydroxyl attack in the atmosphere, etc.
However, Persistent Fluorinated organic Compounds (PFCs) do not naturally diminish in this way as expected for other compounds due to their extreme persistence.
Their characteristics also include chemical stability, high solubility, high mobility, high acid strength (low pKa), dispersible volatile precursors or transformation products in air (such as FTOHs or short-chain perfluoroalkyl derivatives from landfill or WWTP emissions).
This applies for PFCs in surface water, groundwater and in soil PFCs do bind to an extent to organic matter in soil but there is potential for re-release as some or all of that organic matter decays given the persistence of PFCs …”

Our comments:
The main concern of these chemicals is the wide spread use
and distribution, long life and numerous health and
environmental problems, still being uncovered.
The political denials are to be expected
in the light of previous warnings.

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Overseas research has alerted us to the dangers, we now need to
legislate to stop their use in Australia as a matter of urgency.

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