Sunday, January 18, 2015

First wood-burning ban hearing draws FURIOUS crowd in Utah


The Gov continually wants to control the people. This is just another example of taking away another right from us. Consequently, it is difficult to stop the government from interfering. I believe it all boils down to money. I find it hard to believe that wood burning stoves cause the inversion! Large corporations do coal burning for electricity, the refineries across the Wasatch front spew lots of particles, increased population in Utah, SL and Weber counties account for exhaust pollution, Kennecott, Geneva, US Magnesium (MagCorp), the list goes on... What is not okay to breathe are chemicals including chlorine, hydrochloric acid, ammonia, sulfuric acid, hydrofluoric acid, hydrogen cyanide, hexachlorobenzene and dioxin. These are the noxious chemicals that cause breathing problems. Cars do not produce these pollutants, industries do!! The difference is the State receives big $$$'s as pay-offs from corporations.. . So let's attack the few wood burners...hmmmm.
Susoni
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SALT LAKE CITY — The first of seven public hearings to measure the appetite for a seasonal, residential wood-burning ban was attended by close to 200 people in Tooele County clearly fired up over any effort by the state to "regulate" their lives.
The crowd that packed into the Tooele County Health Department on Wednesday afternoon was unanimously, unequivocally and boisterously opposed to proposed rule out for public comment that would ban wood burning in certain areas from Nov. 1 to March 15, beginning this year.
"We are going down a slippery slope if the government does this ban without compromise," said Steve Pohlman. "Why don't they just ban all cars from driving?"
Many residents described areas where they lived in Tooele County in which natural gas is not available and wood is a cheap, renewable way for them to heat their homes.
"Wood is a renewable resource. Why the hell are we banning something that we don't have to pump out of the ground?" questioned Darrell Holden, asserting the "one-size-fits-all" approach does not work.
Chad Allred, who works in the wood stove industry, said Environmental Protection Agency-regulated devices have already reduced emissions by more than 96 percent.
"I would challenge any other industry to say they have reduced emissions by that much," Allred said. "It seems to me that we are shooting a fly with a shotgun. … This is overreach on the part of government."
If the rule is passed as approved, it would be the toughest seasonal wood-burning ban in the country.
The seasonal ban would impact those areas in the state that are out of compliance for federal air quality standards for PM2.5 or fine particulate pollution. Those areas include all of Utah, Salt Lake and Davis counties, portions of Tooele, Box Elder and Weber counties and Cache Valley.
Wood smoke accounts for about 4 percent of the areas' emissions inventory, generating by EPA estimates about 876 tons of pollutants. Of that, about 34 percent is direct PM2.5 emissions, while the majority of the rest is made up of volatile organic compounds that assist in the formation of PM2.5.
William Hogan, of Rush Valley, wondered aloud at the blanket nature of the ban.
"I don't even see an inversion where I live, yet you don't want me to burn a wood stove?"
Others criticized that the proposed rule undercuts self-reliance, hurts small business and sets neighbor against neighbor.
"How is this going to be enforced? Neighbor turning in neighbor? It took me five years to buy my stove because I wanted to be part of the solution, not the problem," said Aaron Holt, a Weber County resident who said he felt so strongly about the proposal that he drove down from Roy because he will be out of town for that meeting. "I think this will affect my ability to be self-reliant."
The Utah Division of Air Quality already bans wood burning on those days when pollution begins to creep above federally set limits. On those mandatory action days, people cannot burn a solid fuel device such as a wood or wood pellet stove or a fireplace. The only exemptions apply to those who use wood burning as the only way to heat their house because of lack of other options. There are only a few dozen of those households in the state, and regulators are working to convert those to another source through financial incentives. Read More

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

AS A FORMER WOOD STOVE AND FIREPLACE INSERT DEALER WE WERE TOLD THIS RUBBISH IN 1989....I BELIEVE THE REAL WORLD FIGURES REGARDING WOOD STOVE SMOKE WAS ONLY 1/2 OF 1 PERCENT OF THE PARTICULATES IN THE AIR.... THE TARS, RESINS, CRESOTE, AND ASTHETIC ACID DOES NOT EVEN COMPARE TO THE F'ING CHEMTRAILS THEY KEEP SPRAYING ON US 24/7 WORLDWIDE....TELL THESE SO CALLED GANGSTERS TO F-OFF.... UNTIL THEY STOP THERE DISTRUCTIVE WAYS WITH THE HAARP AND TRYING TO KILL PEOPLE WITH CHEMTRAILS YOU DO NOT OWE THEM SQUAT....TIME TO GO AFTER THEM.....QUIT LETTING THEM HAVE THEIR WAY WITH YOU.....

Freewill said...

Burning wood is a natural function of mother earth! Lightning strikes create fires as big as massive Forrest fires as well as volcanic eruptions. Fire has been around way longer than man for ages past.

Anonymous said...

Americans better wake up to the fact that the goal of the rogue regime is to REMOVE ALL YOUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS - ONE BY ONE. The attacks are on full force against your ability to provide for your own power sources, removing your ability to secure water, removing your ability to grow your own foods, removing your right to graze your own cattle and provide for your own milk and cheese, removing your right to use a wood stove (reason is because they can't charge you for that power source), removing your right to home school your children - removing them from the rogue criminal cabal 'education' system - 'educating' your children with lies and propaganda. If Americans sit back and wait for someone else to resolve these issues, they will find that they will lose ALL of them. Unite together in your communities, discuss the issues and ways to resolve them. Join together and fight the good fight. The Cliven Bundy ranch issue with the state of Nevada and criminal Harry Reid is a good example. Stand up to tyranny. United we stand but divided we fall. Which is it that you want?

Anonymous said...

TO ALL Americans..... NONE OF THEIRE LAWS APPLY TO US ONLY TO THOSE WITH IN THE 10 SQUARE MILES OF LOONEY TUNE D.C...... TELL THEM TO TAKE A HIKE THAT GOES FOR ALL THE SO CALLED DEFUNCT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT B.S.......GET A ROPE....

Anonymous said...

People in the know know... They want you to be furious because they feed off of the energy.

You feed them when you react that way.

I observed the whole craze of needless outside fire containers and wondered why that became doable. I knew they would eventually ban them and thought the reason they were legal was to 1) damage air quality; 2) create a market (of course); 3) withdraw the right later and gain the negative energy that would emerge; 4) further environmental damage. There could be more, some people devise these plans you know.

Don't tell me it isn't polluting... It is polluting at the very least nose level... to the dogs, animals, people. I go for a walk and I smell it. Luckily, I'm not ultra sensitive, but I'm a lucky one that way.

Natural fires? Let's keep them down to those that occur naturally and not instigated by weather manipulation and fires we build ourselves.

If fires are built to heat indoors, let's keep that to a minimum. I admit I smell the aromatic scent of fire logs once in the while and I enjoy it, but again, I'm lucky it doesn't overtly effect me in a negative way.

Such an incredibly primitive method to keep warm... Burning wood. It is laughable. I don't blame anyone because tech has been withheld, but please....

Anonymous said...

The government through the guise of the EPA (environmental propaganda agents) are wanting to see if they can get away with this in Utah first, and then take over every other state with these "laws" which nobody agrees with. They are doing this to take away your ability to be self sufficient. Some people like to cook on wood burning stoves and most people have wood burning stoves for a back up in case of a power outage in the winter. It's just curious that they want to ban wood stoves in November through March, the very months that people actually need to burn wood to stay warm. People are tired of monopolies and corporations trying to force edicts on them. The EPA statistics are just a bunch of bs words they use to try and obtain manipulation and control of people's lives. The EPA is a fraudulent agency which ought to be abolished because they continue to allow their secret lovers Monsanto and Evergreen to pollute the planet with pesticides (which are in the very genes of the food they try to make us eat), glyphosate roundup (getting in the water, sealife, sea plants, etc.) and chemtrails full of metals, aluminum, barium, etc. and now they are putting bacterias into the mix to try and cause a massive plague to break out, and to destroy crops with to bring on a famine with. These Utah people better get every Mormon they know to show up at these town meetings to stop this infringement on people's rights!

Anonymous said...

It's nice that some people can afford $500 per month electric bills to stay warm in this defunct economy. As a matter of fact, everytime they fill the skys with their chemtrails, they manipulate the weather into becoming extremely cold. It's time to get back to the old-timey ways of doing things and do become self sufficient, or you will take the mark of the beast (computer chip under your skin in your hand or forehead to be able to pay your bills and buy food - you do know they can kill you with that computer chip they want to insert into your body)