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What the hell is this even being considered for?
The government cannot be this naive to think that chopping down trees (which has been proven to contribute considerably to global warming and climate change), to make wood pellets used for energy is a clean and green solution.
The word is out, people know the wood pellet industry has become corrupt. It is no longer making the majority of its pellets from dead trees and wood waste, they are cutting down trees and therefore this practice is no longer a green source of renewable energy.
Consideration for this expansion has to be pressure from the dying fossil fuel industry influencing government with bullshit biased studies the try and justify this insanity.
Burning wood is as bad as burning coal if not worse at the smokestack, and it releases greenhouse gases into our atmosphere making global warming worse.
Practices like this should not be expanded, they need to be phased out and replaced with real clean renewable energy solutions. This is nothing more than greenwashing and most Canadian voters are not that stupid.

I got rid of my diesel furnace and replaced it with an efficient electric boiler because I knew I had to do my part, but industry refuses to do theirs.
It is so frustrating that a large portion of the electricity I use for my electric boiler is coming from Nova Scotia Power burning coal and then charging us some of the highest power rates in Canada to which they try and justify as needed for their transition to more green energy solutions which we all know is mostly a load of crap. A large amount of their profits from these high rates go towards insane salaries and bonuses for their upper management and CEO's as well as profits for their shareholders.
Runaway capitalism like this destroying the earth.

I digress.
We all know the burning of all fossil fuels needs to be phased out to help prevent more extreme climate events that we around the world are already experiencing.
So all Canadian governments need to stop expanding pipelines, stop expanding oil sands, stop expanding fracking operations to extract natural gas, stop cutting down trees which are a carbon sink, to be used for biomass, and use our current fossil fuel industries for our needs here in Canada while we invest in and expand more clean renewable energy that will not contribute to but help reduce greenhouse gases.