This is greenwashing at its…

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This is greenwashing at its finest. Burning wood pellets is dirtier than coal at the smokestack. The Ontario government is intentionally deceiving the public to generate higher demand to expand this dirty industry, which is incorrectly being sold as a "circular economy" system. The Ontario government is claiming this process only uses “mill by-products” aka, waste wood, to manufacture wood pellets but actually many Canadian provinces - including Ontario - are logging whole trees from PRIMARY FORESTS to meet the growing demand for wood pellets!!!! The argument to expand the forest-biomass industry, particularly the wood pellet sector, to provide low-carbon jobs in replacement of fossil fuel jobs just isn’t valid. We CANNOT afford to keep chopping down forests (the lungs of our planet!) and supporting green-washed climate "solutions" amidst this ever growing climate crisis. Wood pellets are a FALSE climate solution - please have more respect for the precious little wildlife that remains untouched by human destruction (less 23% of the world) and development, and think more highly of the Canadian people who can see through this greenwashing facade. WE WANT REAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS!