The Ontario government's …

The Ontario government's “Draft Forest Biomass Action Plan” is wrong, wrong, wrong. Chopping down boreal forests to produce electricity is NOT a solution to global heating. The forestry industry is marketing wood pellets (biomass) as a climate solution to replace fossil fuels, but burning wood pellets is dirtier than coal at the smokestack. While wood pellets are supposed to be made from wood waste and dead trees, we’re seeing more whole trees from across Canada, logged and exported to produce carbon loaded energy internationally. These trees are important carbon sinks which keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere while they are growing. Burning them just adds to our climate problem. We cannot afford false climate solutions that are marching us into planetary catastrophe while trampling Indigenous Sovereignty and crucial biodiversity. The Ontario government must immediately stop expanding the wood pellet industry under the guise of a climate solution.