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Ontario’s Draft Forest Biomass Action Plan

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Do not expand deforestation to make electricity Increasing deforestation as a climate solution is not viable. -wood pellets are dirtier than coal at the smokestack. -these would be jobs in an industry that dumps more carbon into the atmosphere than what it's replacing

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Where is the scientific input in this policy? * We need to remove carbon from the atmosphere. * Trees sequester or store carbon. * Creation of wood pellets, apart from the deleterious effects of cutting down the trees, is an energy intensive process, thereby creating more carbon. Read more

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It is absolutely foolhardy to burn wood pellets for fuel. Burning wood is very dirty and adds to our air pollution and climate crisis. Our SHARED forests need to remain standing, holding carbon dioxide and providing a cooling effect and a home for countless flora and fauna. Read more

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“Stop expanding the wood pellet industry – it’s a false climate solution that is dirtier than coal at the smokestack.” Wood pellets are not clean energy. We need every tree we can save. So please, stop expanding and eventually stop completely the wood pellet industry. Read more

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Why are you doing this when the planet is in such dire straits? You can’t keep closing your eyes and figure it will be fine because it isn’t! It will not magically cure or correct itself because of our interference it will continue! Why are you adding to the pollution? Read more

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Research (yale.edu) shows that burning wood pellets releases as much or even more carbon dioxide per unit of energy as burning coal, so in order for burning pellets to be carbon-neutral the carbon emitted into the atmosphere has to be recaptured in regenerated forests. Read more

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Expanding the wood pellet industry is not a sustainable plan!! We cannot afford to increase deforestation as a climate “solution”. Industry claims that only waste wood is used to manufacture the pellets but that is false. Trees from primary, boreal forests are being logged. Read more

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It's time to move on to a better way. We've used up the possibility of fossil fuels I'm sitting here with a grandbaby and I hoiyou have the same joy in your lives. There is no way we can keep up our current ways and give them a future. And we are responsible. We are the ones.

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