Wood pellets are only a more sustainable option if wood waste is used to make them. Trees cut down to make wood pellets is not sustainable and our forests should instead be protected!
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I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to the Forest Biomass Action Plan. These are some opportunities I see for improvement.
Benefit to Silviculture
The draft version is missing a major benefit of biomass use.
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I do everything in my power to fight what is the biggest threat to the planet: climate change so I'm more than just a little dismayed that the province would allow expansion of the wood pellet industry since it’s dirtier than coal and not a climate solution at all.
I am writing to express my view that the potential expansion of Ontario's forest biomass industry, in particular the wood pellet industry, should be stopped as this industry is not a climate solution but, rather, quite the opposite.
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Will Ontario give private woodland owners market preference or priority to supply any forest origin biomass feed stocks required? How?
Will project proponents be expected to source feed stock from private sources, to qualify for any Ont assistance?
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Burning wood pellets is actually worse compared to using coal with smokestacks, especially with the amount of deforestation to supply their "wood pellets." It's a false solution that will actually return more carbon to the atmosphere and further devastate the beautiful nature Canada is known for.
Fossil fuel workers should be retrained on solar and wind projects, not on an industry that will dump more carbon into our atmosphere and cut down more of our forests.
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Please do not touch threes, we need the forest for animals habitat and they need foods . Threes are good for humanity oxygen, and is good health . Thank you
Best regard
Please restrict the wood pallet industry. A lot of trees which we need to survive are destroyed to make shoddy wood pallets that are often left abandoned and not reused or recycled. They are treated as disposable items and left to rot leaving exposed nails for children to hurt themselves with.
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We are in a declared climate emergency. Climate mitigation includes protecting intact forests which are large carbon capture sites. Burning trees for electricity releases the carbon capture and increases co2 the main driver of climate change. We must move to carbon free energy.
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I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to the Forest Biomass Action Plan. These are some opportunities I see for improvement.
Benefit to Silviculture
The draft version is missing a major benefit of biomass use.
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The boreal forest has our wildlife and so many birds. Don't cut it down and use it which will be dirtier to heat with pellets is rediculous and terrible for our boreol forest birds and animals
This is ridiculous. Trying to reduce Ontario's carbon emissions by cutting down forests and burning them is like trying to prevent lung cancer by smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.
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The sale and burning of wood pellets from non-waste timber is not a sustainable solution to the climate crisis. No amount of green-washing will change the fundamental truth that this is environmentally irresponsible, and must be stopped.
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