Seriously, you have to reconsider this appalling practise. As our lungs inhale oxygen and expel carbon dioxide, the trees inhale carbon, and expel oxygen and so must be protected.
Trees are our best defence against climate change and it makes no sense to burn them for energy as we are increasing our emissions and losing our mitigating elements all in one. The 'biomass' trend is absolutely disgusting under the guise of being renewable and needs to be stopped.
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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The idea of clear cutting our forest for your biomass climate change get free card must stop. Climate change is real and we need every mature tree for a chance to survive. Use your cleverness to create affordable solar and wind alternatives.
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I once used a wood pellet stove for additional heat to cut back on the use of oil for heat. At one time all the pellets where I live were made from sawdust from the small lumber mills in the province I live in. Trees were not cut down for pellets, but for lumber for building.
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Shame on our government for allowing and promoting the destruction of forests for a purpose more polluting than just burning the wood. You are no better than the governments destroying the rain forests in South America which are the lungs for the western world.
Burning Trees A great tragedy for Mother Earth , A Great Tragedy for ours Waters, A great Tragedy For ALL living things, Agreat tragedy For All Humans Living on This Planet Today, A Great Tragedy , A Great Tragedy For Future Generations.
Burning wood pellets is dirtier than coal at the smokestack. 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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Bad science. Compounding the problems we all face. Why don't our governments do the right thing for our populace? It is an abandonment of the public trust to promote industry that is killing us with expansion of procedures that increase air pollution.
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This is not acceptable. Your government kept things in the backroom while the province was preoccupied with the pandemic. But now the secrets and lies and crimes against the environment are emerging. If you think this will help you to win an election, you are naively wrong.
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Our forests provide much needed clean air to all in Ontario. Destroying them for biomass to make wood pellets to be burned only adds to the pollution. This is a lose, lose situation.
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There are many reasons to keep trees standing - removal of CO2 ,and some diversity in plants ,animals fungi,in the are where the tress are remove some other toxins too . There is no good reason to use standing trees for pellet stove burning .
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Increasing deforestation as a so called climate solution is not viable. While the government and industry claim that only waste wood is used to manufacture wood pellets, more whole trees from primary, boreal forests are being logged to meet the demands of this growing industry.
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Burning anything for energy is a 19th century answer to a 21st century problem. How can we be on target to reduce our CO2 emissions if we continue to look to combustibles as a solution to our energy needs?
Grow hemp, logging needs to stop everywhere, including clear-cutting and old growth. Hemp can make fuel, food, and lumber, with much less space and damage to ecosystems. There has to be a new way, the tree plantations are failing, mono-cultural collapse.
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