It was written by cooped up city dwellers striking out in envy at suburbia. They hate fireplaces because they are not ant-hill living compatible. Envy is not about taking steps to have what others have, but taking steps to destroy what others have.
Posted on 12/28/2009 3:15:11 PM PST by SmithL
Another holiday. Another sweep of smoke scofflaws.
Bay Area air pollution inspectors found 47 homes where wood fires were on Christmas Day during a Spare the Air alert when cold, unhealthy air was forecast.
The tally was more than double the 22 violators detected on Thanksgiving Day when the Bay Area Air Quality Management District also called a Spare the Air alert.
Violators get written warnings for a first offense and $400 fines for a second offense.
While critics have bashed the air district for intruding on a holiday burning tradition, a spokesman for the agency on Monday defended the Christmas crackdown as protecting public health from soot that can trigger asthma attacks, and aggravate other respiratory and heart problems.
"We know a lot of people like to burn on this holiday, but it's our duty to protect public health," said Ralph Borrmann, an air district spokesman.
Ten air district inspectors patrolled the Bay Area on Christmas to watch for and sniff out burn violators.
(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...
Yes, there have been 3 “spare the air days” this winter: on Thanksgiving Day, on Christmas Day, and on the coldest day of the winter in the Bay Area, a day that actually saw snow.
BASTARDS is right! They (those who established the Bay Area Air Quality Board) are against anything that smacks of tradition, nostalgia, warmth, coziness, and common sense.
It is all about social control.
I understand your sentiments, but don't confuse local with federal mandates. It's wrong and unconstitutional for the federal government to pass these laws, including Clinton's toilet ban and Bush's light-bulb ban. But these people are reacting to a local ordinance that they can control by either moving their tax dollars away to a different area or state or by electing people with views more like their own. The fault lies completely with the people in the Bay area and those in the Republic of Kalifornia for not changing their state's constitution to prohibit their government from enacting these silly laws.
Well you done did your doody, airhead.
Yep, and the people voted with their money by not just moving out of Detroit, but out of Michigan as a whole. Michigan is soon to be a deserted wilderness.
The pattern that has emerged is: anytime there’s a spiritually-significant holiday, you can count on these amoral bureaucrat sons of bitches to put the fireplace-ban turd in the air-quality punchbowl.
The notion of pre-emptively declaring a pollution emergency on a day when no one’s driving is ludicrous on its face.
Secular Liberals trying to quash Christian holiday celebrations.
No, that is not correct. This only applies to the San Francisco area. Learn to read clown.
Dear Kalifornia, when the "big one" hits and you all slide into the Pacific (making Phoenix prime beach front property), I am not going to shed a single tear. Not one
Flunked geology did you?
Your point is well taken, although I suspect the local ordinance was enacted to comply with the federal Clean Air Act. El Paso, Texas has about 750,000 people, across the river in Juarez live another 1.5 million. El Paso has to comply with the clean air regs, although it has no control over what goes on across the river. El Paso is consistently in noncompliance for failing to meet the national ambient air quality standard Government again.
Every day it is less and less like the USA...gee what will these inspectors do when they push people too far and they decide to burn the entire towns down.
This is insanity...45 fireplace fires is going to damage the environment...unbelievable...
Perpetual opposite day in OblamaBush’s kingdom!!!
It was written by cooped up city dwellers striking out in envy at suburbia. They hate fireplaces because they are not ant-hill living compatible. Envy is not about taking steps to have what others have, but taking steps to destroy what others have.
Reminds me of when my neighbor was building a garage and “The Inspector” had to come on my property to measure that his garage was at least 150ft from my well head (it’s about 100+ yards easily - so it was ridiculous).
Well, as he was standing there measuring he looked at me with a smirk and said “I’ll bet it makes you nervous having a government inspector on your property”.
With a totally deadpan straight face, I looked him direct in the eye and told him I had NO problem with government inspectors - the one I buried in the swamp in the back of my yard last year has given me no problems at all - and just continued to stare at him.
He got kinda quiet and sheepish after that....
Christmas was a no-burn day up here in Phx.
The same city that banned Segways because we are “too fat” and need to walk more.
You’re a real mouth breather aren’t you?
>”Isn’t burning firewood pretty much, like, you know, carbon neutral?”
no No NO!
Making wood absorbs the carbon. When you burn it, it RELEASES the carbon back into the air! OhhhhhGodddddddddd!!!
You should not allow the wood to rot either as it does the same thing! Therefore, I task you with gathering wood for the rest of your life and putting it into a freezer (but, wait, the extra electricity that it takes to run the freezer makes more carbon so, you mustgetmorewoodandputitintothefreezertomakeupfortheelectictysoyoucangetmorewoodandputitintothe...... pk, well, something like that anyway.
“........when cold, unhealthy air was forecast.”
Whatever I am, I pale in comparison to your liberal idiocy. It's apparent why you're right at home in Kalifornia.
Did you get your: "Smoke waivers from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA)?"
You don't think this crap is coming your way?
Think again, it's starts incrementally, and only becomes more intrusive and controlling.
Don't believe me? Want to see more?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Burning Ban
Open burning (burning of trash, debris and brush), is prohibited in Ohio during the months of March, April and May between the hours of 6AM to 6PM.
Open burning is prohibited within the City limits at all times.
Only Certified Prescribed Fire Managers can conduct prescribed fires in Ohio during these months.
To conduct a prescribed fire when open-burning is prohibited, an Ohio Certified Prescribed Fire Manager must request a waiver from Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry.
Smoke waivers from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) are required for most prescribed fires and open burns.
http://newlexingtonfiredepartment.com/burning-ban
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