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Ontario’s Draft Forest Biomass Action Plan

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I can't imagine that burning wood pellets to produce electricity is a climate friendly alternative to fossil fuels. Just as coal, wood is a very dirty fuel and has an enormous carbon footprint at the smokestack. Let's find true alternative productions of electricity. Read more

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Ontario’s Draft Forest Biomass Action Plan

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Take a step back and look at this. How is cutting down trees and burning them going to help reduce the amount of CO2 pollution being dumped into our atmosphere? Even if it’s only waste wood, it should be returned to the soil where it can do some good.

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Ontario’s Draft Forest Biomass Action Plan

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I feel that it's a very bad idea to push biomass as a means to replace fossil fuels. Per se, it cannot be considered as renewable energy as some mature trees are included in the mix and the burning of pellets is generating fumes worst than coal at the smokestack. Read more

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The wood pellet industry is even worse for the environment than coal. You can't market it as a "clean energy", that is simply a lie. Burning wood pellets is not clean, and continuing or increasing deforestation is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing for the climate. Read more

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Burning wood pellets for heat and other energy is filthy dirty and extremely unhealthy. Please save these trees as air and water filtering living habitat. Please find better advisors who are not in the pocket of industries that want to make money from our natural resources.

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Biomass can be a useful byproduct of Forestry, but this Draft Action Plan describes a misguided policy, and it should be abandoned. Any burning of biomass for heat or energy (CHP) adds to our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and should be prohibited. Read more

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Do not be duped into expanding wood pellet energy plants…it’s a colossal climate change fail. It is a dirty little secret that it’s causing more deforestation using raw logs (not just “rescuing” wood waste) and is not the clean energy solution Ontario or anywhere in Canada needs. Just say NO.

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Give your heads a good hard shake. One of the main products of Ontario’s forest biomass industry is wood pellets. Wood pellets are marketed as a clean energy alternative, but we already know that wood pellets are dirtier than coal at the smokestack! Read more

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