What the hell is this even being considered for?
The government cannot be this naive to think that chopping down trees (which has been proven to contribute considerably to global warming and climate change), to make wood pellets used for energy is a clean and green solution.
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I request that the Ontario Government stop claiming that creating electricity by burning wood is good for the environment. Burning wood releases more carbon at exit from the smokestack than does coal, which is a heavy polluter itself.
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Please STOP! you are destroying our planet, environment and future! this impacts us directly: on our health (cutting down trees realeses tons of carbon dioxyde and stops the realease of new oxygen), through animals (lost of habitat= death of them), and encourages climate change!
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Have you learned nothing? All about the science when you want us vaccinated, just not with Climate Change, I have zero confidence in our politicians. I cannot believe you are burning the trees for electrical when you can use Solar... Oh wait, that might work? Right. Zero Confidence in government.
Burning wood pellets is dirtier than coal at the smokestack. Any attempt to use "green" reasoning as justification to expand the industry is deceitful. Logging whole trees from primary forests to meet the growing demand for wood pellets is a serious issue - and an unacceptable one.
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Wood should not be used for fuel. Burning it creates CO2 like any fossil fuel but it also depletes a huge carbon sink that captures CO2 from the atmosphere. Please ban the use of wood for fuel.
Forests hold carbon. Both in the trees and even more so in the soils and other forest plants. Forests clean carbon from the air. Chopping down forests prematurely releases carbon from the slash left over as it decays.
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Wrong direction! We are losing so much natural forest around the globe through fires , by creating farmland for cattle and palm oil and by the lumber industry. And now this? We are cutting down the brach we sit on. Come on , you decision making politicians! You must be smarter than that !
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To whom it may concern,
I am very concerned about this proposal. 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 know that wood pellets are dirtier than coal at the smokestack.
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Burning trees to produce electricity is highly inefficient and doubly detrimental to the planet. Now more than ever, we need to sequester the carbon in Earth, not release it into the atmosphere. Don’t argue that ‘only dead trees are used’ as this is wholly incorrect.
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I heard the Ontario government is considering cutting down the Boreal forest to make wood pellets in order to generate electricity. I believe this to be a disastrous mistake as it will add more carbon into the air as it is a dirty fuel.
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Stop expanding the wood pellet industry – it’s a false climate solution that is dirtier than coal at the smokestack. The point in fighting climate change is to make things better, not worse. Burning trees and calling it "clean energy" is ridiculous. Please move away from this dangerous policy.
Logging trees specifically to burn them for energy is stepping back centuries in technology, when wood was the only available fuel for heating and cooking.
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