Personal wood smoke stories

…I am slowly suffocating and nobody cares…

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.

…The first winter they burnt kitchen cabinets, old furniture, chipboard, plywood, painted wood, fence panels etc…

I spent a lot of time outside gardening and enjoying clean country air until our new neighbors moved in next door.…

Here we have smoke from other people’s wood fires for most of the day for at least 8 months of the year..

…Our neighbor burns a firepit despite being told of our health problems. They say it’s only smoke and the fire dept says they can…

…More than a dozen smoking chimneys are in the area, from none ~3 yrs ago.…

We could finally afford to buy our dream home in Alberta but were driven out by neighbours’ wood smoke…

…Long after he stops burning for the season, my house, coated in smoke, reeks.