Posted on 10/29/2009 7:58:28 AM PDT by SmithL
Light a fire at home, pay a $400 fine.
Burning wood fires in home fireplaces and stoves on bad air nights in the Bay Area becomes illegal again as of Sunday, when the region enters its second cold-weather season with lighting up banned during Spare the Air alerts.
The crackdown, aimed at protecting public health from smoke, has two significant changes this year, the Bay Area Air Quality Management announced Wednesday:
"We don't want to stomp on people's Norman Rockwell experience, but one neighbor's smoke can end up causing another neighbor's visit to the hospital. Smoke can trigger an asthma or heart attack," said Mark Ross, a Martinez city council member on the nine-county air pollution board. "Wood smoke is a public health threat."
(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...
I am sure there a boat load of people that wish SF would just break off and fall into the ocean.....
Join the SFCP: San Fran Chimney Police!
How long will the citizens of this country put up with this micromanaged tyranny? They don’t give a damn about the “health effects” (think the ‘death panels’ are indication they give a damn?)...only how much they can suck out of your pocket and how hard they can slap you around.
“....The crackdown, aimed at protecting public health from....._______________ (fill in blank with anything)”
This will be the basis for total control of our lives if their Health Care passes...
No more fatty foods, costs the health care system too much.
No more high school football-too many injuries
No more _____________________ use your imagination.
Think it cant happen? Look at some of the things they have publically stated in other areas.
This is the most radical group ever...
In England, in the olde days, on a cold night they would just go to the the woodpile, get a faggot, and throw it on the fire...maybe San Francisco has concerns...
These anti-everything druids want it both ways - burning wood is supposed to be “carbon neutral”.
Where are all of these nanny state freaks going to burn all of our history books?
I look forward to him producing the supporting clinical studies of populations that has gone to the hospital because of smoke from other people's chimneys.
That is, assuming there even are such population. Personally, I am very skeptical.
NEVER!
and welcome to FR.
In San Francisco, you can go out behind the woodpile and find a faggot....never mind.
I was a bit surprised they still allowed fireplaces at all.
How did that freedom still manage to survive in SF?
I have yet to turn on my heat here in the NE, my woodburner is all I use until it gets below freezing.
Nothing smells better than smoke from a woodburner with some cheery wood in it.
So, as I read it, on a bad air night, you can burn until the ban goes into effect at midnight.And you are still banned till midnight of the foloowing day, even if that is a good air night?
I guess if you are a S.F. lib, this may make sense, but not to this southern conservative.
Just wood smoke? I wonder if they've ever been in Beijing at noon and 6 pm when all of the cooking oil and woks are fired up. Will they try to ban that as well on "dirty-air" nights with all of the Asians in CA?
Can anyone find out where Mark Ross, a Martinez city council member, got his Medical Degree?
I think we all should know.
I remember 1970s oil schocks caused a lot of people to install wood burning stoves. These were the crunchy people who would subscribe to Mother Earth News. Unbeknownst to these people, wood stoves produce smoke. A goodly number of New England villages had to outlaw the stoves because their towns air was blue and, well, smokey. I find it amusing that the original Mother Earth News types are now running things as well as they did in the 1970s.
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