No pellets. Burning fuels is…

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No pellets.

Burning fuels is NOT a way to reduce greenhouse gasses. I am not sure why burning pellets is considered green, it is not. It takes minutes to burn the pellets and it takes 40 YEARS to grow the trees back to a similar size. We can't keep dumping carbon into the atmosphere and thinking it's okay it isn't. Right now we need to be aggressive with our carbon reduction and burning massive amounts of wood is not going to do that.

Maybe some day we can safely burn wood for fuel, but not until/unless we get our carbon emissions under control and reduced.

Further, burning massive quantities of wood for fuel will remove them from pulp and paper, which will make a comeback with the removal of plastic bags this will increase the cost to the consumer of all packages and bags that use paper.

Again, burning the wood for fuel takes potential trees from the lumber industry, raising prices of lumber and therefore housing and construction.

Burning wood in massive quantities will not only damage the environment by putting carbon in the atmosphere and removing soil and animal habitat but also raise the price of living in Canada.