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December 14th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
THE CFA should be ashamed for refusing to investigate a link between the toxic chemicals used at its Fiskville training college and a suspected cancer cluster, alleged victims say.
The investigation can look at “historical facts”, documents, current risks and origin of the chemicals, but not whether they are linked to the deaths of 15 people who worked and trained there or those who are sick.
Lawyers say the investigation looks like an internal review to examine the CFA’s legal liability, not discover the truth about the use of dangerous chemicals there between 1971 and 1999.
Trevor Coulthard, who regularly trained at Fiskville and now has mouth cancer he believes may have been caused by the chemicals, said he expected more from the authority.
“The CFA should be totally ashamed of themselves for not exposing all the facts in this inquiry,” Mr Coulthard said.
“What faith do the people working for the CFA now have in the organisation for any future inquiry if they are just trying to sweep this under the carpet now?”
Mr Coulthard said the State Government should demand the terms of reference be widened.
Former CFA chief officer Brian Potter, who is battling cancer and a rare auto-immune disease, said the inquiry had fallen short.
“Any inquiry should seek to determine whether there was a relationship between the materials used at Fiskville and the illnesses people are now getting, but that’s the one thing missing from these terms of reference,” Mr Potter said.
Slater and Gordon’s James Higgins, who has 49 clients wanting to pursue a class action against the CFA, criticised the inquiry.
“It’s about one third of the job that it should be – it’s almost like a report that you would do to work out your legal liability,” Mr Higgins said.
CFA chief executive Mick Bourke said yesterday he would make a report into the investigation public after it was delivered on March 31.
But Mr Bourke said that investigating the link between the chemicals used on the site and a suspected cancer cluster would be a long-term project that he would not commit to yesterday.
“What this report does is start the process of that work quite well, this is a pathway,” he said.
A State Government spokeswoman said it was not seeking a widening of the terms of reference.
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