(sniff, sniff)

Yup, it still stinks.

Expect to see city-wide ban on wood stoves after this study is completed.

I am also wondering why these teams are not patrolling these same streets from 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM in order to get a good comparison of industrial vs residential pollutants.

If they come by my place, I'll give them something to smell, but they won't like it.
metalman.

HabsFans...are you kidding...with our Mayor...you really don't expect him to go after the bigger boys do you..... Why anyone knows that one wood stove is far more badder than a pulp mill or refinery.
But you know Dan the man, another survey will be needed.

it would be better if they drove around from about 02:00 am to about 09:00 am becaus that is when the cold air holds the smell down. Driving around in the time frame they have set will only prove that there is no smell.

Dumb bunnies!

It would be useful to find out why they are doing this particulate research. Are they trying to extrapolate their findings to the entire year? Are they only concerned with measuring the AQ during these hours and months for a particular reason?

What exactly is the purpose and how does it tie into the myriad of other AQ studies that have been undertaken already?

Wood burning should be banned in the city whether it is the major cause of pollutants or not. Have any of you sat by a campfire and had the smoke come directly at you? It's not pleasant to say the least, and you will generally move. When your neighbour is burning wood and the smoke comes directly at your house you can't move the house.
Also, I would be willing to bet that it costs just about as much to heat with wood as it does gas by the time you count purchasing the chainsaws, the gas for the chainsaws, and gas to go and cut down the trees and cut them up.

I've been running a wood stove for several years. It is a heck of a lot cheaper to heat my home with it than with natural gas. My house is warmer as well. How can you compare a campfire to a woodstove? Modern stoves tend to have something like catalytic burners in them and when operating properly with seasoned wood being burned there is next to no smoke coming out the stack. Perhaps we need to step back a bit and see why people are burning wood instead of gas. Oh yeah! Something to do with Free Trade and a "shortage" caused the price to go up so that the average user either needs to pay through the nose, freeze or look for an alternative form of heating.

As for all of this air testing, it's a total waste of time and money.

JMHO

I live on Dawson road,you would think some mornings around here that nobody as natural gas piped into there homes,there old stoves stink something rotten!

Agreed that wood burning should be banned in the bowl. Some of the older stoves out there just belch smoke into the air.

Being too cheap to pay for natural gas is no excuse.

Nope. I'm not too cheap to pay for natural gas. I just choose to heat my home differently than you do. However, I do agree that there are some stoves out there that should be shut down. Maybe those are the ones that should be looked at.

In this day and age with the economy the way it is I don’t blame people for burning wood. My stove puts a lot less emissions in the air than all you people that drive out to golf coarse 20 or 30 times in the summer. If you want fresh air move out to the country.
I have lived here for 50 years and I will always burn wood. If city council wants to ban it, well maybe we should change them.

I think most people burn wood just for spite. For now it is their little way they can get back at the "establishment" for taking away what they think are their rights.

Also, in case some of you were unaware, the price of natural gas has gone down in the last year. This and auto fuel are two of the reasons we are in a negative inflation period now.

Seems to me that in order to be a scientific study, they would have to pick random times at random locations.

It looks like they know what they are targeting and when to find it. So why bother wasting money on another study. Just do what you are going to do and quit wasting time and money. Everyone knows they want to ban wood stoves in the city. So just do it already if you are going to do it!

I still think they need to take into account the smoke in our air coming from industrial burning of debris piles.

Highway 16 was smelling strongly of smoke yesterday, with no sign of any houses near by, and certainly none having a wood stove. The only thing burning in the area was logging waste.

This study just looks like a way they can deflect the blame on residents yet again, all the while letting industry do things how they want.

A modern car burns gas so cleanly that the exhaust is most likely cleaner than the air going in. Much much cleaner than a wood stove, no comparison

What does this car look like?

I want to make sure my antique, uncertified wood stove is going at full force, dampener wide open, with the wettest, greenest wood I can find when it goes by!