Editorial-March 2012 Newsletter
March … At last the end of winter is in sight! Many people are hoping that warm weather returns with a vengeance so the smoke that fills their yards and houses will end. Not so, as most of you know. The die-hard burner will continue to pour out the smoke until he begins to see that he is looking like a fool burning in the warmth of the sun.
This is an excellent time to get a package ready for your town councilors and mayor so that they will have the information necessary to see that residential wood smoke is truly a health hazard. In this package you should include plenty of photos of the smoke you are forced to live with and information that shows what is in wood smoke and how it affects the health of all who are forced to breathe it. There is plenty of information on my web site: http://WoodBurnerSmoke.net that you can print out to include in your packages.
It also would be a good time to get on the list of speakers for a council meeting. You can tell them first-hand what you have gone through and perhaps show some pictures of the smoke surrounding your home and property. Pictures can be your best evidence that something needs to be done to help you and others who are affected by residential wood smoke. What you are looking to achieve is a ‘nuisance smoke’ bylaw so that when smoke is invading your home and property you will have a means to have it stopped.
Waiting and hoping that your mayor and council members will do something is not going to happen without input from you. Trust me. I know. Had I not found some council members that heard what I had to say and did their own investigating there would never have been a bylaw being created. Start now because creating a bylaw takes time and you don’t want or need to spend another winter doused in a neighbor’s smoke!
Shirley Brandie
Source: The Wood Smoke Activist Network
March 2012 Newsletter
Editor: Shirley Brandie
http://WoodBurnerSmoke.net
http://canadiancleanairalliance.ca
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Are you going to pay?
Are you going to pay?
A letter in the Prince George Citizen ended its support for wood stoves with “If someone was to knock on my door and ask me to put out my wood stove, my response would be this: Are you going to pay my heating bills?”
How about asking wood-burners to pay the bills for asthma medicine? How about paying the funeral costs for about 5 people every year in Prince George who die because of wood smoke? How about paying for all the people who will not move here because of the bad air?
Are the wood-burners going to also ask me to pay for their truck and fuel to get the wood? Do I pay for the saws, fine wood stoves, splitters, sheds and gloves?
I am NOT going to pay your heating bills. I converted to natural gas and now pay for it so that my neighbours can have healthy air to breathe. Yes it costs me to care about my neighbours. Wood burners should do likewise, and care more about those who have to breathe in their smoke.
Article by: Vic Steblin – BSc Honours Math. MA MATH Education from UBC - Retired
Source: The Wood Smoke Activist Network
March 2012 Newsletter
Editor: Shirley Brandie
http://WoodBurnerSmoke.net
http://canadiancleanairalliance.ca
Webmaster---All wood burning should be prohibited/banned/ended in all our communities---and with no exceptions. Woodsmoke is noxious, harmful, and deadly no matter who does it or where it occurs.
A letter in the Prince George Citizen ended its support for wood stoves with “If someone was to knock on my door and ask me to put out my wood stove, my response would be this: Are you going to pay my heating bills?”
How about asking wood-burners to pay the bills for asthma medicine? How about paying the funeral costs for about 5 people every year in Prince George who die because of wood smoke? How about paying for all the people who will not move here because of the bad air?
Are the wood-burners going to also ask me to pay for their truck and fuel to get the wood? Do I pay for the saws, fine wood stoves, splitters, sheds and gloves?
I am NOT going to pay your heating bills. I converted to natural gas and now pay for it so that my neighbours can have healthy air to breathe. Yes it costs me to care about my neighbours. Wood burners should do likewise, and care more about those who have to breathe in their smoke.
Article by: Vic Steblin – BSc Honours Math. MA MATH Education from UBC - Retired
Source: The Wood Smoke Activist Network
March 2012 Newsletter
Editor: Shirley Brandie
http://WoodBurnerSmoke.net
http://canadiancleanairalliance.ca
Webmaster---All wood burning should be prohibited/banned/ended in all our communities---and with no exceptions. Woodsmoke is noxious, harmful, and deadly no matter who does it or where it occurs.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
"What's up, Doc?"--Letter
"What's up, Doc?"
"What's up, Doc?" is a catchphrase of the cartoon character Bugs Bunny.
Amazingly, there is an answer to Bugs Bunny's question.
Asthma attacks, COPD problems, allergic reactions, labored breathing, certain cancers, heart problems, headaches, stress related illnesses, clinic and hospital visits, more children missing school, adults calling in sick at work, and more people prematurely dying is "what's up" due to the woodsmoke emissions that permeate our air everyday and takes our breath, health, and life away...day by day.
Unless all wood burning is prohibited/ended in our communities, our quality of life will continue to deteriorate, the air will become even more poisonous to breathe, our families will face a future of more suffering and illness, and visits to the clinic and hospital for temporary relief will become weekly occurrences.
Only be ending woodsmoke now will we ever be able to live our life to its fullest potential without the threat of being harmed and killed by woodsmoke emissions. Woodsmoke is trespassing on our property. Woodsmoke is an assault and battery on our person. Woodsmoke from a neighbor's wood burning takes way our right to breathe air without noxious and harmful particulates (PM2.5) in it. Woodsmoke is harmful to the environment. Woodsmoke does not dissipate into a vacuum, but it aimlessly drifts through the neighborhood bringing havoc and horror to others.
So "What's up, Doc?' when it come to woodsmoke....only illness, harm, and premature death.
It's time to end woodsmoke in our communities.
Anonymously submitted.
"What's up, Doc?" is a catchphrase of the cartoon character Bugs Bunny.
Amazingly, there is an answer to Bugs Bunny's question.
Asthma attacks, COPD problems, allergic reactions, labored breathing, certain cancers, heart problems, headaches, stress related illnesses, clinic and hospital visits, more children missing school, adults calling in sick at work, and more people prematurely dying is "what's up" due to the woodsmoke emissions that permeate our air everyday and takes our breath, health, and life away...day by day.
Unless all wood burning is prohibited/ended in our communities, our quality of life will continue to deteriorate, the air will become even more poisonous to breathe, our families will face a future of more suffering and illness, and visits to the clinic and hospital for temporary relief will become weekly occurrences.
Only be ending woodsmoke now will we ever be able to live our life to its fullest potential without the threat of being harmed and killed by woodsmoke emissions. Woodsmoke is trespassing on our property. Woodsmoke is an assault and battery on our person. Woodsmoke from a neighbor's wood burning takes way our right to breathe air without noxious and harmful particulates (PM2.5) in it. Woodsmoke is harmful to the environment. Woodsmoke does not dissipate into a vacuum, but it aimlessly drifts through the neighborhood bringing havoc and horror to others.
So "What's up, Doc?' when it come to woodsmoke....only illness, harm, and premature death.
It's time to end woodsmoke in our communities.
Anonymously submitted.
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