Stop expanding the wood…

Stop expanding the wood pellet industry – it’s a false climate solution and you are intentionally deceiving the public. You claim that the province is a leader in the emerging green economy because of the "clean electricity" produced from wood pellets, but we know that burning wood pellets is dirtier than coal at the smokestack. Furthermore, the forest-biomass industry is not a circular economy because Ontario, as well as many other provinces, are logging whole trees from primary forests to meet the growing demand for wood pellets. And the argument to expand the forest-biomass industry, particularly the wood pellet sector, to provide low-carbon jobs in replacement of fossil fuel jobs just isn't valid. We cannot afford to chop down forests to make a fuel that emits an immense amount of carbon dioxide. It would take centuries for forests to regain the majority of their carbon storage after being logged. Wood pellets are purely a false climate solution.