I have 3 main concerns about the draft Biomass Forest Biomass Action Plan:
1. One of the main products of Ontario’s forest biomass industry is wood pellets. Wood pellets are marketed as a clean energy alternative, but are dirtier than coal at the smokestack;
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The planet needs trees to survive. We people need the benefits of trees. STOP this insane idea that wood pellets are environmentally friendly...lies lies lies
On behalf of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, please find attached our submission with respect to ERO # 019-3514 (Ontario's Draft Forest Biomass Action Plan).
Thank you.
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I support a transition to an economy that runs on sustainability and respect for the future and that we must make it happen asap. However, using wood pellets is not the best way to go.
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We need trees to help fight the climate crisis - because the Ontario government certainly is doing Nothing! to advance that cause. What trees and green space that is left is our Only hope that we might surf this crisis to a sustainable future.
Let us not increase carbon dioxide pollution of the atmosphere and run away climate change by encouraging the use of wood pellets to generate electricity. Wind & solar will do the job cleanly.
This is NOT the right solution. 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.
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To protect our forests from improper use - for example , if you suspect that the forest companies who have been allowed to cut trees, are actually cutting down whole trees for making wood pellets - it is essential that these companies must be continually inspected by many different inspectors with n
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Biomass and forest should not be in the same sentence. It is important not to expand the biomass industry as there is already insufficient waste pulp fibre to keep the industry going. Removing living trees from a forest is not an acceptable form of fuel.
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