Ban Wood burning Stoves

[Derrick Hughes]

So today's enemy on the news are Wood burning Stoves and Slurry Spreading
Am I missing something or where does that leave biomass burners
Someone has already written more damaging that coal fired power stations if you take the loss of trees into account .
Confused .com

 

[CornishTone]

Let me guess... Jeremy Whine?!

 

[Dry Rot]

Yes, I wondered about that too. But I think it's the old "dirty" wood burners they want to ban rather than the modern "clean burn" stoves, though ultimately they do seem to want to ban everything.

 

[mouse]

Michael Gove should not be allowed near decision-making as regards the countryside. Wood fires and stoves are an essential and natural resource for warming houses and water. Spreading slurry saves manufacturing artificial fertiliser. I am too much of a country bumpkin to know the polluting effect of fertiliser manufacture but slurry has got to be more natural...especially when sprayed into Defra headquarters.

 

[Goweresque]

The odd irony is that having a wood burning stove in your house is in fact one of the most carcinogenic things you can do, short of smoking 20 a day:

https://samharris.org/the-fireplace-delusion/

For the record I do have one, I wouldn't be without a log fire. But you have to accept the benefits come with the attached risk hazards.

 

[franklin]

I dont think my wood burner, in a house several miles from the next house, and surrounded by my own woods soaking up all that CO2 really causes any problem at all.

 

[Woolly]

That's talking about open fires, isn't it?

Hopefully a wood burner is a lot cleaner.

 

[Oldstyle]

If I don't coppoce the hedges they would die off or just take over the whole farm. If I didn't heat my house with a wood burner what would I do with all that wood.

 

[TheTallGuy]

If I don't coppoce the hedges they would die off or just take over the whole farm. If I didn't heat my house with a wood burner what would I do with all that wood.

Use a wood chipper running on fossil fuels to chip it rather than releasing CO2 from burning it directly!

 

[Red Fred]

Let it break down in a natural and environmentally friendly way, thus providing a habitat for the threatened Gove Beetle.

 

[Wastexprt]

Spreading slurry saves manufacturing artificial fertiliser. I am too much of a country bumpkin to know the polluting effect of fertiliser manufacture but slurry has got to be more natural...especially when sprayed into Defra headquarters.

I have a client who wasn't allowed to spread non PAS110 digestate on land on Anglesey because the groundwater, however many metres under the soil surface it is, was polluted with inorganic N. So how is stopping him spreading the stuff and make the farmer use more, rather than less, inorganic N going to make that better ???

 

[Tarw Coch]

Humans have used wood as a source of heat for thousands of years, free of govt interference...........till now at least.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

To think we used to burn sleepers in the open fire and huddle around it . No better heat on a cold winter's night

 

[Adam@Rumen]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44203396

Just been reading about it.

Farms and log burners are in rural areas - the pollution index shows rural areas to be the greenest...

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I read somewhere that Gove was going to have his wings clipped as the cabinet won't give him funding for half he wants to do

 

[Dry Rot]

It has just been announced that the government is going to ban everything unless you've gone on a course, been certified, and got a licence.

 

[Grain Buyer]

some of the rubbish they discuss as MP's!

 

[Wastexprt]

I read somewhere that Gove was going to have his wings clipped as the cabinet won't give him funding for half he wants to do

He does seem to be King of Consultations at the moment.

 

[Celtic Driver]

The world has gone mad it is time to say no to all these idiot MPs they do not live in the real world .

 

[yellow belly]

Lets perspective and look into the issue rather than respond to lazy journalist headlines

The issue is lazy users who do not season the wood they use properly or buy cheap damp unseasoned logs and burn them straight away

When they banned non smokeless rules in cities in the last century it cleaned the air up and reduced the smogs

Good suppliers season their logs properly the rest should be banned unless householders have enough storage to dry their logs over the summer
A wood store with a tin roof and ventilation under the logs dries its self over the summer