Please stop destroying…

Please stop destroying nature for a quick profit. Stop expanding the wood pellet industry

Ontario is home to North America’s largest forest biomass-only electricity generating station. Burning wood pellets is dirtier than coal at the smokestack.
Ontario is allowing logging of whole trees from primary forests to meet the growing demand for wood pellets. Stop the action plan which includes, “streamline permitting and reduce regulatory burden for all sectors which use forest biomass,” it's concerning because this means fewer environmental checkpoints. Ontario has already gutted the Endangered Species Act, and gutted the Conservation Authority. We'll be a desert of a province if the current government doesn't stop this brutal assault on nature.

The argument to expand the forest-biomass industry, particularly the wood pellet sector, to provide low-carbon jobs in replacement of fossil fuel jobs isn’t valid. Amidst an ever growing climate crisis, we simply can’t afford to keep chopping down forests to make a fuel that emits immense amounts of carbon dioxide. Moreover, it can take centuries for forests to regain the majority of their carbon storage after being logged. Once again, wood pellets are a false climate solution and destroy natural habitats in our ecoSystem.