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Ontario’s Draft Forest Biomass Action Plan

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Biomass is not a technology that we can consider to help our climate crisis, unless we use something to capture the carbon rejected by the combustion. Using the atmosphere as a buffer until the trees that we burn grow back simply won't help yo reduce our emissions in the next decades. Read more

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Yes - please create alternative jobs for fossil fuel workers to help us transition away from oil and gas. But let's not create a bigger problem than the one that needs to be "fixed." Wood pellets are a dirty fuel and create more harmful emissions from the smokestack than coal. Read more

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Using wood to generate electricity is not a good move. It will hasten climate change and biodiversity loss, 2 things that threaten our very existence. Wood burning is just as bad as coal at the smokestack and will additionally create health problems. Read more

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Okay, gang: As someone professionally versed in both carbon accounting and organic landscape management, live trees are carbon sinks - they actively sequester carbon every year (in addition to stabilizing their watersheds, providing habitat, clean air, etc.) Read more

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Think about it Ontario! When has burning ANYTHING that produces particulate, been good for the environment? There are so many other options to produce electricity, which do NOT require deforestation of Canada’s wonderful forests. Try sun, run of the river and wind for your power. Read more

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Burning wood or wood pellets is stupid. First you cut down a tree that is absorbing carbon dioxide. Then you use a lot of energy to convert it to pellets. Then you turn all the wood back into carbon dioxide by burning it. Only idiots would try to portray this process as environmentally sound.

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