Definitely not a practical solution for the future and instead of focusing on moving in the wrong direction you should be planning a course for a better future
Expanding the wood pellet industry under the guise of a climate solution is outrageous. The idea of burning more wood pellets means burning more trees for electricity – producing a fuel that’s even dirtier at the smokestack than coal!
Wood pellets produce more emissions than coal, and killing forests are killing our children. Jobs in the pellet industry are not worth the loss of the future health of our children.
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I am totally against growing this industy!
The process destroys a carbon sink (and it's ecosystem) only to create carbon output. This is going backwards and is not a logical or effective way to move away from the production of fossil fuels.
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This comes under the heading “seemed like a good idea at the time”.
It wasn’t! Strict legislation must be created limiting pellet production to waste from the existing lumber industry, not new cut timber of any kind.
Increasing deforestation is a bad idea especially since wood pellets are dirtier than coal at the smokestack. Please stop the expansion of the wood pellet industry and provide real green energy solutions and jobs for citizens.
I oppose the plan to increase production of wood pellets from our dwindling forests.
Wood pellets were, I think, first produced from waste wood. Not from mature trees.
Burning any wood puts carbon into the environment.
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Trees are so in demand. We are dependent of them for oxygen and biodiversity.
It’s time to reduce dependence on the old ways of polluting the planet and look at green alternatives that don’t involve cutting down precious forests.
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Energy sources are of primary, and crucial, environmental concern (along with agriculture). We are currently unsustainable. I don’t know if people understand what that means. It means inevitable extinction.
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Canada needs to protect its land and trees and resources. One thing we learned during the pandemic is how dependent we are on China and other countries for our basic needs. Allowing our resources to be exploited and depleted is BAD SCIENCE.
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in addition to the carbon emissions generated by the cutting and burning of biomass from trees, biomass plants are uneconomic compared to solar and wind.
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I'm feeling completely disillusioned with the Ontario government. I strongly oppose logging boreal forests for wood pellets. The boreal forest stores carbon and is a natural carbon sink that should be preserved in an our collective effort to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
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The forests are falling around me. The rate of cut and age of tree they are logging is totally unsustainable. Soon there will be nothing left. Stop this madness. Time to invest in green energy. Let’s be proactive instead of reactive to our energy needs. Solar, wind, wave and thermal energy.
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Expanding the wood pellet industry in Ontario would be like building more coal-fired generating plants! The smoke from burning wood is almost the same as burning coal and will ADD to climate warming and pollution, a bad idea.
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