PG Gets Funding for Wood Stove Exchange
Prince George, B.C. – Prince George has cashed in on the provincial government’s Wood Stove Exchange Program yet again.
The Prince George Air Improvement Roundtable has received $11,000 in funding as a means to encourage residents to trade in older, high-polluting wood stoves for new emissions-certified stoves.
The program provides homeowners with a $250 rebate once a newer model wood-burning, pellet or natural gas stove is purchased and an older model is retired.
Thirteen B.C. communities have received $190,000 in Wood Stove Exchange Program funding this year, which will also be used towards educating the communities to better inform residents on clean wood burning.
The government has set a goal of having 600 stoves exchanged. They say the newer stoves burn one-third less wood and reduce smoke and particulates entering the atmosphere by 70 percent or more.
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If what they mean by “new emissions-certified stoves”, that it is a pellet stove, someone has been drinking too much of that cool-aid.
In My humble opinion, pellet fuels are not energy efficient, nor do I believe that they are more efficient.
“If what they mean by “new emissions-certified stoves”, that it is a pellet stove, someone has been drinking too much of that cool-aid.
In My humble opinion, pellet fuels are not energy efficient, nor do I believe that they are more efficient. ”
And global warming is a conspiracy, fossil fuels are our future :P
no, fossil fuels are not our future because they are finite and almost gone.
The problem has been and will be for the foreseeable future the problem of how to monetize energy and energy distribution, that is out sticky wicket.
There is this capitalist ideal that we have to profiteer on everything. Have you not been reading eagleone?
What the solution is, I do not know yet. What I do know is that what we are doing now is wrong.
In addition, it not climate warming or misinterpreted Chinooks, it is cyclical climate variation with accelerated extremes caused by human activity.
Loki can you point to the science that proves that, I mean real reproducible verifiable science showing accelerated extremes caused by human activity?
As for fossil fuels have you ever seen a wind generator build a wind generator?
Fossil fuels will be around for a long time yet, don’t forget methane, almost unlimited compared to conventional fossil fuels and Japan is leading the research in mining methane. That should give you nightmares.
The problem that I have with pellet stoves is the noise. If they’re off in the basement or a room of their own, that’s fine, but I hate it when people install them in living space.
I used to have an old wood stove and I would have to clean my chimney during the burning season twice. WE since moved and in this residence we put in a blaze- king wood stove. WHAT a stove, longevity of a burn, half again as much wood or more not used. Almost nothing for emissions up the stack and if anything is visible usually just steam. Yes they are pricey but for how little wood they consume and the heat they throw I couldn’t do without. But the best part is im not up on the roof twice during the winter cleaning my chimney!
As for fossil fuels have you ever seen a wind generator build a wind generator? Yes ! It happens every day Denmark . See vesta . The tesla giga battery factory will be up and running next year and will be powered 100 % by windmills and solar panels . The excess power will be fed into the grid . Partly because of the battery factory and cheap power a Chinese investor is going to build 1.5 billion dollar electric car factory near Los Vegas . Too bad christy is so near sighted . She loves burning stuff .
This isn’t enough incentive. $ 250.00 vs $ 2000.00 to $ 3,000.00 for a new stove?
As the blue smoke boils out of my neighbors house into ours this morning and my son is coughing uncontrollably, I recall the reason he burns as a primary heat source is to save money.
You think this cheap jerk is going to upgrade for benign reasons like the benefit of his neighbours and the environment?
Not a chance.
Not until Prince George passes a bylaw with maximum emissions standards that take a real bite on this issue.
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