British Columbia

Our lives and health are no match for the money-making business of wood-fired pizza…

…even gathering our mail we have to judge if it is “safe” to go outside.…

If we knew that the air quality was this bad we would have never moved to Comox.

Over the past 25 years the population of our valley has exploded and with it, the use of wood for home heating…

We had no idea it would be this bad.…I am being robbed of my own health — by others.

…the worst by far is the one next door, which belongs to a North Cowichan Wood Stove Exchange recipient…

…I was forced to sell my home and move away…

In 2010 at age 58 I developed aggressive diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (DLBCL) …

…I have spent perhaps close to $4,000 in the past 3 years trying to alleviate our situation…