In an effort to improve air quality across Utah during the winter season, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has proposed a seasonal wood burn ban, much to the chagrin of many
locals.
The ban would eliminate solid fuel burning in fireplaces and wood/coal stoves from Nov. 1 to March 15, except for homeowners whose homes are heated solely by wood.
The proposal comes after Gov. Gary Herbert requested the the Air Quality Board explore options for improving wintertime air quality along Utah's Wasatch Front and Cache Valley..........
According to Utahns for Responsible Burning, an organization strongly opposed to a seasonal ban: "The Utah Department of Environmental Quality estimates that wood smoke is approximately 5% of
this problem. Even if burning is completely banned, it won't solve the valley's brown cloud."
Car exhaust, factory emissions and other pollutants contribute to the region's poor air quality.
The organization believes that the ban punishes citizens who invested in newer, cleaner burning stoves and will be a disincentive for others to upgrade to more environmentally responsible hearth
products.
Others say that the cost of using an alternative form of heat is too great.
"I know many families that will be impacted. I know families that will have to choose between food and keeping their families warm," Utah resident Debi Rosenlund Brozovich said.
"No business or industry has ever been asked to reduce pollution by 100 percent."
"Homeowners whose homes are heated solely by wood and are registered with DAQ as a sole source residence would be permitted to continue heating with wood," the DEQ said.
On Tuesday, more than 500 people showed up to Brigham City's public hearing. The hearing was one of seven scheduled during the 40-day public comment period, which closes Feb. 9.
THE WORLD IS ALREADY ON ITS HEAD ABOUT CLEANING SOMETHING THAT'S NOT DIRTY. WTF? TAKE YOUR BANS AND SHOVE EM'! THIS IS A FREE COUNTRY....TELL THESE CONTROLLERS, OR FEARMONGERS TO EAT THAT BROWN
STUFF THAT COMES OUT SMALL ROUND HOLES. WHEN THE POWERS THAT BE, IF YOU WANT TO CALL THEM THAT START DOING BETTER, AND DOING AS WE SAY, THEN WE MIGHT CONCEDE A FEW THINGS, BUT OUR COUNTRY HAS
STOOD THE TEST OF TIME...SO HAS OUR RESOURCES...AND UNLESS THEY WANT A WAR OVER SOMETHING AS STUPID AND HOW WE HEAT OUR HOMES FOR OUR FAMILIES...THEY ARE TREADING ON OUR FREEDOM; NOT TO MENTION
LOOKING PRETTY STUPID WITH THEIR UNPROVEN SCIENCE. SO....
TO ARMS!!!
YOU COME AND TELL PEOPLE HOW TO HEAT AND WARM THEIR FAMILIES FOR THE SUPPOSED SAKE OF CLEANER AIR,..YOUR GOING TO GET HURT. DON'T LET THEM TELL YOU HOW TO HEAT YOUR HOUSE. IF THEY CANNOT FIGURE
OUT A WAY TO CLEAN THE AIR THEY DIRTY WITHOUT HARMING OTHERS IN THE PROCESS, THEN THEY CAN GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD. F--K EM'! REGARDLESS OF WHAT STUPID UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS OR ORDINANCES
THEY TRY TO PASS, THE ULTIMATE DECISION IS YOURS AS A FREE INDIVIDUAL AMERICAN, BE YOU AN AFRICAN AMERICAN, MEXICAN AMERICAN OR WHATEVER....NO ONE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY JUST TO BE BOUND BY STUPID
REGULATIONS OUR ANCESTORS FLED FROM, ONLY TO HAVE US (THEIR CHILDREN) TO COME UNDER THE SAME BONDAGE. SCREW THAT! SAD PEOPLE WOULD (WILL ) HAVE TO BE HARMED OR KILLED BECAUSE THEY CANNOT MIND
THEIR OWEN BUSINESS. THIS MAY SOUND EXTREME, BUT BACK IN THE PAST THE WEATHER WAS BETTER, THE AIR WAS ACTUALLY CLEANER, THE GRASS WAS GREENER, THERE WERE MORE BEES, OCEAN LIFE WAS NOT BEACHING
ITSELF IN UNGODLY NUMBER, AND WE WERE BURNING EVEN OUR TRASH AND FIREPLACES, WOOD STOVES WERE PIPPING IT OUT! SO, SCREW THEM! BURN BABY BURN! BESIDES, IT SMELLS GOOD. KEEP THE FIRE BURNING.
NATURE IS NOT THAT FRAGILE....IT CAN HANDLE IT! HAS NOW FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. THEY NEED TO TAKE THEIR POWERLESS PROPOSALS AND STICK THEM UP THERE NEW WORLD ORDERED AZZ!
PSS: ASIDE FROM THE RADIATION COMING IN ON THE JET STREAM FROM THE PACIFIC FROM JAPAN; UTAH HAS SOME OF THE CLEANEST AIR IN THE NATION. WOOD BURNING FOR HEATING THE HOME IS SOME OF THE CHEAPEST
FUEL AROUND. DON'T BE PUSHED TO BUY GAS, OIL, OR ELECTRIC AND PAY OVER-PRICED METHODS FOR HEAT. YOU KEEP YOU FAMILY WARM AND DO WHATEVER IT TAKES. YOUR FAMILY IS MORE IMPORTANT; MORE IMPORTANT
THAN WHAT OTHERS "SAY" IS A PROBLEM. - Anonymous
SOURCE: READ MORE HERE > http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/utah_winter_wood_burning_ban_air_quality/41029379
One more question I pose: Does anyone know how many people in the USA use fireplaces and or wood stoves? A freaking lot!!! Why pick on Utah? Majority of them are Mormons?? Is this an attack on
the natural uses of wood, and heating their families homes as our ancestors and pioneers did? Seems there is more here at work than their complaint of "it's making this huge world's air
dirty"! You ponder that!!!