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Sustainability is important to the well-being of our province, people and the planet. Nature is precious and we need to preserve as much as we can— re-using byproducts is one way to do this. However, we are seeing the logging of many whole trees from primary forests to meet the growing demand for wood pellets! A decision to burn more wood pellets means burning more trees for electricity – producing a fuel that’s even dirtier at the smokestack than coal. We have to stop this harmful industry in its tracks, and now.

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

There are also claims that expanding the wood pellet industry will provide alternative employment for fossil fuel workers, but these would be jobs in an industry that dumps more carbon into the atmosphere than what it's replacing.

EXPANDING THE BIOMASS INDUSTRY IS NOT A SUSTAINABLE CLIMATE SOLUTION. It's the wrong direction entirely.