Letter to the Editor: Breathing New Life into Woodsmoke Polluted Communities

Breathing new life into Woodsmoke polluted communities is essential for healthy living.

Being free from Woodsmoke’s toxic emissions will ensure that everyone has clean healthy air to breathe.

Breathing new life into Woodsmoke polluted communities, including rural areas where OWBs (outdoor wood boilers) are used, begins at the municipal level where our elected leaders must take immediate pro-active action to address the obvious, noxious emissions from outdoor open air burning devices, indoor wood burning stoves, wood burning fireplaces and pellet stoves.

All wood burning devices directly deliver cancer causing chemicals into community air affecting the young, elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions.

Isn’t it time that all communities make Woodsmoke pollution their number one priority?

Isn’t it time that our community leaders and government officials take seriously the dire health impact that Woodsmoke polluted air has on everyone, even the healthy?

Asthma, Stroke, Cardiovascular/Cardiopulmonary, Cancer, COPD, and other illnesses are associated with Woodsmoke pollution’s toxic emissions.

Isn’t this destruction to our health and environment from Woodsmoke pollution more than adequate proof that now is the time to end/ban/prohibit such a deadly form or airborne pollution?

Our air is precious. Protect it, don’t pollute it with Woodsmoke!
Linda Baker Beaudin, Founder Air Is Precious 1236 Brookdale Avenue, P.O. Box 22049 Cornwall, Ontario Canada K6J 4P8