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57419

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If you take away the trees, they cannot absorb CO2. If you burn the trees, they only add to the excess of CO2 in our atmosphere and hasten the climate disaster. There is nothing 'environmental' or 'ecological' about using wood as "biofuel". It's greenwash nonsense. Read more

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I have a pellet stove and have always believed that pellets were being made from waste wood, which nonetheless is not without a carbon footprint. but to learn that forests are being cut specifically to feed the pellet industry is completely unacceptable. Read more

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The wood pellet industry is not a climate solution. Wood pellets are marketed as a clean energy alternative, but they produce more carbon than coal when they are burned. One of the main products of Ontario’s forest biomass industry is wood pellets. Read more

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57427

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I am against your expansion plans for the biomass and wood pellet industry. I do not trust this. I believe you are green washing this info and that expansion would lead (or already does lead) to not just using forest waste, but also cutting down trees for the pellets. Read more

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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. Increasing deforestation as a climate solution is not viable. Read more

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Cutting down boreal forests to make wood pellets to burn for energy is the opposite of what needs to be done to lessen the climate crisis! We need every tree we have to protect the planet. Trees provide the air we breathe. Burning them is a worse source of pollution than burning coal. Read more

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We do not need to escalate the cutting down of our forest. Our trees produce oxygen which is going to become more and more scarce as climate change increases. The removal of our trees often leaves ugly scars on the landscape and definitely causes erosion. Read more