Clean air strategy

[Pan mixer]

So it looks like Urea might not be such a good choice then?

Other than that I am not sure how it is going to affect my mixed farm with arable, pigs, sheep, cattle and chickens all kept on straw.

Except I have got a wood burner in the living room........

 

[uztrac]

Rip out ones wood burning stoves etc etc. What ever direction is this " government " taking the nation. We are becoming the laughing stock of the world. China is still opening a coal fired power station every month,Wood for our stoves is a "renewable energy source ".We have no new nuclear power plants,so where pray is the power going to come from,?

 

[Still Farming]

Alledgedly lime and pine air freshers can mix to make formaldehyde or something too?
Log burners, farm animals farting and belching list goes on ?
Will be able to have or do anything???

 

[Kevtherev]

Sounds like open fires and house coal will be no more
All to do with particulates in the atmosphere.

 

[7610 super q]

Is it me, or are the BBC rapidly becoming anti farmer ?

 

[Exfarmer]

Rip out ones wood burning stoves etc etc. What ever direction is this " government " taking the nation. We are becoming the laughing stock of the world. China is still opening a coal fired power station every month,Wood for our stoves is a "renewable energy source ".We have no new nuclear power plants,so where pray is the power going to come from,?

The issue with wood burning stoves is about the large number sold into places like Islington and Chelsea etc, they were banned in the 1950’s due to the famous London smog. The burning of non smokeless fuel has been controlled inthe cities since. However recently there has been a rise in sales of woodburning stoves in the inner cities to So called greens in the mistaken belief they are helping with global warming. While some stoves are capable of meeting standards many do not , further many people in the inner cities are burning wood with no provenance often treated timber etc. on open fires, which have been restored after years boarded up

 

[Still Farming]

Sounds like open fires and house coal will be no more
All to do with particulates in the atmosphere.

Freedom's are being curtailed next !

 

[uztrac]

Is it me, or are the BBC rapidly becoming anti farmer ?

They have been anti farmer or true rural for many years,now becoming even more biased against us.

 

[davidroberts30]

Is it me, or are the BBC rapidly becoming anti farmer ?

Becoming....

 

[Kevtherev]

Probably in the cities scrap wood out of skips is being burnt not clean hardwood logs like is country bumpkins.

 

[Bury the Trash]

If you've got your own logs ,how the heck can they police it will the coppers be looking for smoking chimneys

They have been anti farmer or true rural for many years,now becoming even more biased against us.

Whats it got to do with the BBC twas on the ITV news and channel 4 news as well it's not them that make the rules

Still after Brexit it will sorted out

 

[Right-arm fast]

What about the wood and biomass boilers/burners put in under the RHI. There are plenty around now? It’s like a can of worms! Unless they are only thinking of burning wood in towns and cities. New smokeless zones perhaps. My sister in law lives in Worcester and has just put in a lovely new log burner.

 

[7610 super q]

If you've got your own logs ,how the heck can they police it will the coppers be looking for smoking chimneys

Whats it got to do with the BBC twas on the ITV news and channel 4 news as well it's not them that make the rules

Still after Brexit it will sorted out

Pics of slurry spreading on the beeb.....

 

[bobajob]

Any new rules coming in on slurry spreading?

 

[Bury the Trash]

Pics of slurry spreading on the beeb.....

Pretty much the same on other channels .
Anyway will just have to wait till after dark to light up

 

[topground]

The Clean Air Act 1956 which came about as a result of the London smog events outlawed the sale of non smokeless fuels (Coal) in smoke control areas, all set up in urban areas, Bristol and Bath around here but nothing in the sourrounding areas which included the Somerset coal field where former NCB employees had and probably still have a coal allowance. ( Not that there will be that many survivimg miners) Enforced by Local Authorities there was a scheme of grants for the conversion of appliances to burn smokeless fuel.
I expect any new restrictions will be enforced through the sale of fuel and appliances. It is also likely that similar zones will apply so if you are cutting and burning your own timber I wouldnt panic just yet.

 

[Jones24]

Batch Boilers under RHI come to mind....

 

[primmiemoo]

Went to a house in a suburb of the nearest big town two years ago where it was very, stinkingly, obvious that the neighbour was burning wet, and treated wood in a woodburner.
I had to leave because it upset my breathing so much.

The chimney sweep told me about customers burning plastics and household waste in theirs - including used disposable nappies - without a care in the world.

We quite rightly worry about the poor in third world countries having to burn dried cowpats for fuel, and help them to look after their health and their environment, but so many in GB can lob a woodburner in their house and hang the consequences.
In circs closest to home, legislation is long overdue.

 

[Fiveospades]

Probably fifty long haul flights pass just to the North of our farm everyday not to mention the internal and local air traffic. Justice?what justice?!.

 

[kfpben]

If they want to take away my right to have a fire in my (cold) house they will have to take me away and lock me up.

It’s a fundamental human freedom to light a fire to keep warm. The French wouldn’t put up with this shite.