one  small fire in my neighborhood  filled the entire area for 24 hours so much I could taste the tar with each breath.This is not burning,it's smoldering

Problem is the wood has to much moisture in it. Ever have water in your gas tank? car doesn't want to run to well does it?now picture your gas tank half full of water,that's the moisture content of  wood in spring as it soaks up spring run off like a rag.

Kamloops is surrounded & inter mingled with fields

of dead tree's just waiting for a careless motorist or hiker to discharge a cigarette, then we will see the fire that will make 2003's seem like a weeny roast. See a city's ignorant attempt @ fire prevention

Beautiful clear day in the mountains, the city below  clogged with smoke of a few slash piles, yet the government just released strict laws for cigarettes saying no smoking indoors, even close to a door  is against the law.Who's protecting our environment?

AIRBURNERS IN OPPORATION BURNING 60 TON A DAY EACH OF WET WOOD WITH OUT HEAVY SMOKE.

SPEAKS FOR IT'S SELF

the machines come in many differn't sizes to suit the needs and also to be more portable.

This is a old fashion non EPA approved wood stove, as u can see there is no smoke.Education is the key!

this is also a non EPA aproved wood stove not burning properly. The same is true for EPA approved stoves, if not used properly they will smoke this bad as well.

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Tree's look pretty healthy right?...wrong, the tree on the right is infected with pine beetle. beetles live in the green tree's, if their red there is no point worrying about them, you see city/gov morons selectively removing  red dead trees only to have to come back the next year to do it all over again, clear cut the whole lot dummies!

tips of the tree's are just starting to die, doesn't look to bad.....

......till you look closer, see the sawdust on the branches? If you see signs like these on your tree's, take a closer look.

This is what you will find under the bark, the tree teeming with beetles eating the tree alive. took me 30 seconds to figure this out, took government five years to figure it out and still no game plan other than to push it into piles while it's wet and fill the whole province with thick poisonous chemically smoke

  One of the catalysts that empowered  me try to get involved with the city workings is the air quality, for those of us who are long time residents have experienced the air quality getting much worse over the years, and believe me, the air was nothing to brag about back in the 70's and 80's.

  Though in the last ten years air quality is so bad with particulates, people are trapped inside, not able to go outside and play with our children because it usually means a trip to the emergency room to use a ventilator.

  There is nothing more scary to a parent than a child gasping for air, having to be rushed to the hospital at 2am. The national average of children being born with asthma in Canada is 15%, (way to many) yet for Kamloops 1 in 5 kids, (35%) suffer from some form of respitory problems, my son being one of them.

  The major contributors to poor air quality is the mills who pollute 24/7/365 days a year, and our own Ministry Of Environment who give their stamp of approval. MOE add insult to injury, burning deadfall in the spring, winter, and fall so much that it creates a thick blue haze through out the  province.

  Our trusty mayor and council are also to blame, year after year extending the mills permit to pollute as much as they want. Mission flats which is in the heart of the city, is a cesspool of ignorance, new polluting companies opening up each year.

  One of the culprits was a railway tie grinding facility that has since late 09 has moved , sending up dust and particulates into the airshed that blocks out the mountains regularly. As councilor Pat Wallace puts it, "jobs are important", thus the need to disregard peoples health, thus the need to disregard science that proves polluting pricks are making people sick.

  There is technology that will clean up slash burning pollution but MOE who is responsible for our environment is afraid it might cause hardship, it costs money, and GOD Forbid we can't charge a corporation ....so Gordon Camble charges the tax payer with "carbon tax". Not that it will make the air any cleaner, or force corporations to reduce their emissions of either CO2 or particulates...no it just drains the citizens of more tax dollars to pay for the Olympics, making it look like progress.

  Below are incinerators that burn five times faster than slashpiles, produce zero emissions, and can be burnt 24/7/365 days a year. Instead MOE and city morons in power refuse to use them, instead the dickheads push the it into big piles, wait till the wood soaks up water like a dish rag, then in the dead of winter try to burn billions of tons of wood. What ends up happened is the wood smolders because of the low tempatures, because the wood has a high moisture content, because these guys are a bunch of selfserving, moronic assholes who could care less about any one but themselves, simply going through the motions, spending the allotted amounted so next year the budget will increase. you don't need a PHD to see the thick blue air on the horizon.

 

I have been in the wood business for 18 years, cleaning, repairing, installing EPA appliances, so I have some experience with proper combustion. I know what causes particulates, creosote or carbon. I figured the city would like to learn about these machines called "airburners", and perhaps lease one for ten grand for a couple of months. I did a presentation to council but mighty Mc Dorkle insisted we couldn't afford one....no instead smoking the hell out of the community is just fine for him.

Three months later Mc Dorkle spends $350 000 grand on a wood chipper and operator that will chip 6" twigs.

  That being shot down, I again went before council asking for an "airshed" program be instigated. Airshed program is where citizens, health officials and corporations get together to reduce pollution in the air, most other communities have them. Terry Lake, then mayor, insisted "we can't control air" and "I'm sick and tired of provincial passing responsibility to municipalities". Uh Terry, if you had any clue you would know its about limiting what goes into the air, not which direction it flows.

  Now Terry is our MLA, and low and behold he is saying, there's not enough air pollution, lets invite a railway tie incinerator into our city. Hey it creates jobs, what's a few people dyeing from cancer, or a few kids being born with asthma, no big deal....hey China is doing it!

 

  Wood stoves are given a bad rap by those who have clue what wood is all about, these are the same people who install natural gas like it was going out of style. They "think" that just because there is no smoke from natural gas that is must be clean. Actually natural gas is just as polluting as vehicles contributing to global warming. Natural gas produces 7Xs more CO2 and 350Xs more methane gas which is worse than CO2 for trapping heat in the ozone. Besides that every year hundreds of people are killed and injured from gas poisoning or explosions.

  Wood on the other hand is carbon neutral, yes it called " bio fuel" because it is above ground, and it produces the same amount of CO2 rotting that it does burning. There can be particulate pollution as well if it is not burnt properly. wood needs to be dry, (no moisture) warm,(when was the last time u saw a forest fire in winter?) and proper amounts of oxygen to combust cleanly.

(pushed into big piles with dirt does not allow enough air to properly combust).

  In the old days wood stoves would smoke the hell out of the valley for a couple of months a year with particulates. Our moronic government has taken this one step further, 9 out of ten mills in BC smoke 24/7/365, MOE slash burning  24/7 for 9-10 months out of the year, then the bastards have the gaul to blame residential wood stoves. To much of anything is bad, and thick blue smoke year round due to mills and slashburning is causing health problems for many.

  In the last ten years technology has improved to a point woodstoves have a secondary burn system so they reburn the smoke before it enters the chimney. Thus there's practically no smoke, no chimney fires, as a result woodstoves use half as much wood so it is very practical and sought after, especially since the high costs of natural gas due to politicians selling out to private corporations. Wood is free energy, will never be banned, will save your ass in a power or gas outages, can be put anywhere in an existing home, (even if you don't have a fireplace), looks and feels beautiful.

PINE BEETLE BATTLE :<(

Those pictures were back in 08, the beetles quickly infested all three trees with in months they were all dead.

The good news is the beetles has seem to have run its course, trees are actually getting greener, (the ones that weren't totally dead). However hear it is at the end of November 09 and the average tempatures at night have been around 8 degrees.

  The bad news is the tussock moth has replaced the pine beetle, summer of 09 saw douglas fur trees wiped out in the area of Barnhartvale. Common sense would be to log the hell out of that area in the infested trees in the winter to try and wipe out the tussock moth before it gets started. Unfortunately current government act as slow as molasses in January.