Personal wood smoke stories
Officials don’t take issue seriously
There are several open fires or woodburners near me and the air often smells of smoke…
Smoke comes in through air intake
It is difficult for me to breathe in my own home…
Never imagined city air could be cleaner
His wood stove burns day and night and a heavy cloud of smoke surrounds my home.
Driven from a Hampshire market town
…It cost me tens of thousands to move…
Unhealthy retirement in Comox Valley
If we knew that the air quality was this bad we would have never moved to Comox.
Smoke in rural South Australia
…I am slowly suffocating and nobody cares…
Wood boilers in PEI
In PEI Canada, the previous Liberal government placed wood boilers beside nursing homes and schools. Where I worked as a nurse in one of these homes, some days you could smell it inside the building.
Smoked out in a smokeless zone
…The first winter they burnt kitchen cabinets, old furniture, chipboard, plywood, painted wood, fence panels etc…
There are no laws to protect us
I spent a lot of time outside gardening and enjoying clean country air until our new neighbors moved in next door.…
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