What kind of solution is burning wood pellets for electricity? That got to be the most irresponsible answer that anyone could come up with! This government has made some of the worst decisions this province has ever seen, and you will be held accountable at some point.
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This is such a bad idea on so many levels it is hard to believe anybody with intelligence would support it. Trees filter the carbon OUT of the air. To say you are helping reduce climate change by cutting trees down does not make any sense. Only a complete moron would make this claim.
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I am appalled that the Ontario Government is using wood pellets for biomass energy. We need to replace fossil fuel with clean energy and keep trees alive. This is the way that we transition to a cleaner future, or we just won't have a future at all!
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As a fellow Canadian, I am dismayed by the lack of forethought in these kinds of situations.
A healthy environment should be a human right here in Canada, similar to about 100 other countries.
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Where are we heading with that!?!?
Are we going completely nuts!?!? Cutting while trees to transform into pellets and burning them!?!?? Non sens, it makes me sad and mad at the same time.
The Ontario government claims that expanding the wood pellet industry will provide alternative employment for fossil fuel workers, but these would be jobs in an industry that dumps more carbon into the atmosphere than what it's replacing.
Stop using biomass to produce electricity.
I demand that you stop expanding the wood pellet industry. A decision to burn more wood pellets means burning more trees for electricity – producing a fuel that’s even dirtier at the smokestack than coal.
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We need to look for ways to create energy WITHOUT damaging the environment or destroying the health and well being of the planet... I don't know the answer, but I know we need to support science that will find CLEAN answers. Please, start NOW, to save the future.
I believe one of the main products of Ontario’s forest biomass industry is wood pellets. Wood pellets are marketed as a clean energy alternative, but wood pellets are dirtier than coal at the smokestack.
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I am adamantly opposed to the use of trees for biomass and/or wood pellets. The growth of "industry trees" in no way approximates the reality of biodiverse forests, does not provide much needed forest habitat, and burns with a terrible carbon footprint.
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The rate at which we already cut down trees in order to build the homes we live in and the buildings we work in is already too much for the environment. To look towards increasing that rate in order to use wood pellets for electricity is just going to make the issue worse.
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Shifting from burning fossil fuels to burning wood biomass for energy is a "false" solution that undermines both climate goals and the world's biodiversity, stated a letter sent to leaders of the EU, European Council, US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and South Korean P
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Increasing deforestation as a 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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Stop the very harmful backtrack on sustainable clean energy and deforestation policy! The decision to burn more wood pellets means burning more trees for electricity – producing a fuel that’s even dirtier at the smokestack than coal.
Burning wood pellets is unsustainable, and shortsighted. It requires processing of wood and there is always waste. Then creates greenhouse gases. Stop please
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