Dear Santa letter--from the children of the world
Dear Santa:
I have been waiting for weeks to see you at the parade. I was so good, but now I am very sick with my asthma again. Mom and Dad said it would be better if I stayed home and watched the parade on TV instead.
Santa, I wrote a letter asking you for a special gift this year and I wanted to give you my letter at the parade, but, Mom and Dad said I have to mail it. I hope you will understand.
Santa, I don’t want any presents–like toys and games-this year. You can give them to some other boys and girls. I am hoping you will give me something very special that I need. I want clean air to breathe. Air that does not have Woodsmoke in it.
Right now, I cannot breathe inside my home. Many times I can’t make snow forts or play with Porschie, my dog, outdoors due to the Woodsmoke. My asthma makes me stay inside because I can’t breathe the bad woodsmoke air outside.
Santa, my wish is for you to drop off my letter-while you are delivering the gifts for the other kids-at every city hall in the world. My letter is asking that all leaders to please ban Woodsmoke in every city. People, and we kids, are getting sicker and sicker from breathing that bad woodsmoke.
That would be the best gift ever for millions of boys and girls and everyone. I cough all the time. Santa, do you cough too? You have to crawl through all those chimneys. It must be terrible for you. Do you wear a mask to breathe like the firemen do? No wonder you don’t stay very long anywhere with all that woodsmoke in the air.
Santa, if you can drop all those letters off, people would begin to understand and finally help us. All wood burning must be banned.
I will leave you extra cookies and vegetables for the reindeer. Vegetables are good for you! Please help all us children, Santa. More than toys, we must have clean air to breathe for our little lungs and even our Grandparents need that. Everyone needs clean air to breathe Woodsmoke-free. I hope you deliver all my letters so we can have the best gift anyone could ever receive…clean air…and no more Woodsmoke.
Santa, thank you.
Webmaster...The author wishes to remain anonymous, but dedicates the above letter to all the children of the world suffering from woodsmoke.
The webmaster joins in hoping that elected leaders in the world will do what they can to end woodsmoke in their community....and to ensure that children will be able to live a more healthier life by ending the destruction and horror of woodsmoke.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
City Banning The Wrong Smoke
City Banning The Wrong Smoke
Letter to the Editor
Ladysmith Chronicle.com - Letters
341 1st Avenue, Ladysmith, B.C., V9G 1A3
1-250-245-2277
Published: October 25, 2010
Editor:
It was no surprise when the annual Cowichan Valley light up started last Friday. Following a notice sent to my phone, I watched as the sky slowly filled to its familiar haze. In fact, one of my neighbours celebrates the first day of light up by lighting his wet leaf pile to share the smoke with my children gallivanting in their own back yard.
As I hustle my children indoors on the lovely autumn day, I am struck by the fact that Duncan council has spent so much energy on this politically correct bylaw to try and ban cigarette smoking downtown, but are seemingly oblivious to the billowing of wood smoke.
I very easily keep my children away from cigarette smoke; however, I find it rather difficult to shelter them from the smog that all the open burning creates over our lovely valley.
I am sure it is much more politically correct to try and ban smoking. I have born witness to the wall anti-open burning campaigners come up against with the city.
It is a shame that the easy way seems to be taken when it comes to banning the correct light up.
A. Richards
North Cowichan
Letter to the Editor
Ladysmith Chronicle.com - Letters
341 1st Avenue, Ladysmith, B.C., V9G 1A3
1-250-245-2277
Published: October 25, 2010
Editor:
It was no surprise when the annual Cowichan Valley light up started last Friday. Following a notice sent to my phone, I watched as the sky slowly filled to its familiar haze. In fact, one of my neighbours celebrates the first day of light up by lighting his wet leaf pile to share the smoke with my children gallivanting in their own back yard.
As I hustle my children indoors on the lovely autumn day, I am struck by the fact that Duncan council has spent so much energy on this politically correct bylaw to try and ban cigarette smoking downtown, but are seemingly oblivious to the billowing of wood smoke.
I very easily keep my children away from cigarette smoke; however, I find it rather difficult to shelter them from the smog that all the open burning creates over our lovely valley.
I am sure it is much more politically correct to try and ban smoking. I have born witness to the wall anti-open burning campaigners come up against with the city.
It is a shame that the easy way seems to be taken when it comes to banning the correct light up.
A. Richards
North Cowichan
Friday, November 19, 2010
Breathe At Your Own Risk!--Letter to the Editor
Breathe At Your Own Risk!
Letter to the Editor
London Free Press Website
369 York Street, P.O. Box 2280
London, Ontario N6A 4G1
Posted November 19, 2010
Breathe At Your Own Risk!
It surrounds us. It is a life necessity. We cannot survive without it. AIR! Yet, the message being sent by our Canadian Government is to Breathe at your own risk!
Small Particulate pollution (PM2.5) is destroying our health, quality of life and fragile environment. People suffer and die from the toxic effects of Woodsmoke Pollution. Canada is a burning Nation. Today a most needed bill C-311 was killed by the Harper Government. Once again the message being delivered by the Conservative Government is that the health and well being of Canadians falls into the abyss. Sadly, we become the canary in the cage being subjected to breathing more cancer causing chemicals each day.
The facts are alarming. The statistics shocking! In October, 2010, a statement was issued from environment ministers "Air Pollution has a huge impact on the environment, human health and the economy" said the Honourable Charlene Johnson, Newfoundland and Labrador's Minister of Environment and Conservation, and CCME president.
A study released in 2008 calculated that the costs of illness caused by air pollution (exceeded) $8 billion (annually in Canada). "CCMC is the primary minister-led intergovernmental forum for collective action on environmental issues of national and international concern." The development of the major elements will begin in 2011. Implementation to improve air quality standards will begin in 2013. Meanwhile we become ill, suffer and die from particulate pollution in Canada.
Woodburning stoves, Woodburning fireplaces, pellet stoves, pellet plants, Biomass plants, all Woodburning devices, and all outdoor open air burning contribute to the toxic polluted air Canadians are breathing. All Woodburning must be banned, if not we continue to breathe at our own risk.
Scientific and medical evidence support the claim that Particulate Pollution and Woodsmoke Pollution are causing grave harm to our health and environment.
According to pediatrician, Dr. William Sammons, USA, biomass burning emits the most toxic chemicals known to science, including deadly dioxin, mercury, fine particulate matter and others. "These emissions cause asthma, heart disease, diabetes and other illness in children as well as adults, and should never qualify as the "cleanest" technology under our Clean Air Act," Dr. Sammons said. Over 77,000 doctors, the American Lung Association, Massachusetts Medical Society, North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians and others oppose burning biomass on health grounds.
Renowned global scientists and medical doctors concur and support the fact that biomass burning is contributing to our global warming. Biomass burning is a leading contributor to millions dying from the toxic cancer causing chemicals found in Woodsmoke.
It is long overdue that the Canadian Government becomes fully accountable for the mass suffering of millions of deaths each year from Woodsmoke related diseases, due to air quality and particulate pollution. Sadly the lack of efforts in leading our country toward cleaner air has become as toxic as the air we breathe.
We in Canada should not have to.....Breathe At Our Own Risk.
Written by....Linda Baker Beaudin, Air Is Precious, Cornwall, Ontario K6J 4P8
Letter to the Editor
London Free Press Website
369 York Street, P.O. Box 2280
London, Ontario N6A 4G1
Posted November 19, 2010
Breathe At Your Own Risk!
It surrounds us. It is a life necessity. We cannot survive without it. AIR! Yet, the message being sent by our Canadian Government is to Breathe at your own risk!
Small Particulate pollution (PM2.5) is destroying our health, quality of life and fragile environment. People suffer and die from the toxic effects of Woodsmoke Pollution. Canada is a burning Nation. Today a most needed bill C-311 was killed by the Harper Government. Once again the message being delivered by the Conservative Government is that the health and well being of Canadians falls into the abyss. Sadly, we become the canary in the cage being subjected to breathing more cancer causing chemicals each day.
The facts are alarming. The statistics shocking! In October, 2010, a statement was issued from environment ministers "Air Pollution has a huge impact on the environment, human health and the economy" said the Honourable Charlene Johnson, Newfoundland and Labrador's Minister of Environment and Conservation, and CCME president.
A study released in 2008 calculated that the costs of illness caused by air pollution (exceeded) $8 billion (annually in Canada). "CCMC is the primary minister-led intergovernmental forum for collective action on environmental issues of national and international concern." The development of the major elements will begin in 2011. Implementation to improve air quality standards will begin in 2013. Meanwhile we become ill, suffer and die from particulate pollution in Canada.
Woodburning stoves, Woodburning fireplaces, pellet stoves, pellet plants, Biomass plants, all Woodburning devices, and all outdoor open air burning contribute to the toxic polluted air Canadians are breathing. All Woodburning must be banned, if not we continue to breathe at our own risk.
Scientific and medical evidence support the claim that Particulate Pollution and Woodsmoke Pollution are causing grave harm to our health and environment.
According to pediatrician, Dr. William Sammons, USA, biomass burning emits the most toxic chemicals known to science, including deadly dioxin, mercury, fine particulate matter and others. "These emissions cause asthma, heart disease, diabetes and other illness in children as well as adults, and should never qualify as the "cleanest" technology under our Clean Air Act," Dr. Sammons said. Over 77,000 doctors, the American Lung Association, Massachusetts Medical Society, North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians and others oppose burning biomass on health grounds.
Renowned global scientists and medical doctors concur and support the fact that biomass burning is contributing to our global warming. Biomass burning is a leading contributor to millions dying from the toxic cancer causing chemicals found in Woodsmoke.
It is long overdue that the Canadian Government becomes fully accountable for the mass suffering of millions of deaths each year from Woodsmoke related diseases, due to air quality and particulate pollution. Sadly the lack of efforts in leading our country toward cleaner air has become as toxic as the air we breathe.
We in Canada should not have to.....Breathe At Our Own Risk.
Written by....Linda Baker Beaudin, Air Is Precious, Cornwall, Ontario K6J 4P8
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