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One of the main products of Ontario’s forest biomass industry is wood pellets, which are marketed as a clean energy alternative, but wood pellets are dirtier than coal at the smokestack.

Increasing deforestation as a climate solution is not viable. The claim that only waste wood is used to manufacture wood pellets, is false: whole trees from primary, boreal forests are being logged to meet the demands of this growing industry.

It makes no sense to provide alternative employment for fossil fuel workers in the wood pellet industry, when it dumps more carbon into the atmosphere than the industry it's replacing.