Please join us in 2021 and transition to a clean power source. Burning wood for electricity is not efficient and there are much better methods available. Deforestation is a real issue with burning wood pellets for power and increases the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere.
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Stop greenwashing the forest-biomass industry. Burning wood pellets is dirtier than coal at the smoke-stack, it creates an immense carbon dioxide footprint. We need to conserve our forests which sequester carbon, and support wildlife not squander them in a false "green" industry.
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I am concerned about "improving the regulatory environment" for the wood chip industry. I question if this is truly something that is truly currently underutilized. It is important that any wood chips created to be burned are truly a byproduct of existing activity.
Trees are our natural ally in the fight against climate change. Everyone with a secondary school diploma knows that trees remove carbon dioxide from the air, sequestering carbon in their trunk and returning oxygen to the atmosphere. And they preform this vital and invaluable service for free!!
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There are other alternatives to wood pellets. Once again this government panders to business interests instead of listening to the science and doing the correct long term thing.
What an idiotic idea this is! Let us take all the carbon sequestered over numerous years in trees and release it back to the current environment. It takes a real idiot to think about this as any type of "green" solution.
Instead let me suggest the following:
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Knowing all that we know regarding climate change, carbon and our future ... and cutting down trees to create more carbon is your answer? Honestly?
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The governments of Canada have to realize the forest cannot sustain everything. Cutting trees to provide pellets to burn to provide steam to make electricity makes no sense. Stupid people would support such a plan.
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.
I truly appreciate the efforts of the Ontario government to reduce carbon emissions and to curtail coal-generated energy. Wood pellets, however, are not an acceptable alternative, and simply divert one environmental problem into another.
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Stop burning trees for fuel + electricity. Trees take carbon dioxide out of the air - it purified our air. Too many poorly educated new to home ownership are cutting down trees on their own property.
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This is insanity! To cut down trees and then to burn them! It diminishes the source of oxygen by cutting the trees which are the lungs of the planet, then adds insult to injury by burning the product the trees are transformed into, adding more pollutants to the atmosphere! Stop!
My comment is that it needs to exclude wood pellet heating, which is a source of air pollution particularly when used in domestic wood pellet burners. Wood pellet burning releases large amounts of carbon dioxide and should not be encouraged.
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