Posted on 05/25/2011 5:40:37 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A supreme court judge says New York must immediately halt the sale of outdoor wood boilers that violate new air quality rules set by the Department of Environmental Conservation.
The new regulations were supposed to take effect April 15 but DEC wanted to extend the deadline to July 15 to give retailers time to sell off the older boilers. The judge ruled Tuesday that the sales must stop now.
The American Lung Association, Environmental Advocates and Earthjustice sued to enforce the deadline.
(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
The new regulations cut emissions by 90 percent and require an 18-foot stack height to reduce smoke flowing to neighboring homes. Farm groups say the regulations are too burdensome and smokestacks that tall are dangerous in windy areas.Outdoor wood boilers, which are enclosed in small outbuildings, are wood-fired furnaces that provide hot water to heat a home, barn or other building. They're most popular in rural areas where landowners can use their own woodlots for energy rather than buy oil or natural gas.
In a rural area the wind is going to take an 18 foot stack right over. Will the DEC fine people for littering fields?
Let’s see...
Allow sales to continue for one more month and a half, or bankrupt small businesses by sticking them with inventory they can’t sell.
Why would anyone need to boil wood?
;-)
So instead of buying a wood boiler in New York the homeowner will have to cross state lines to purchase one. I am sure the dealers in the surrounding states are quite happy.
How do the regulations do that? Is the pwner of the boiler required to duct-tape a copy of the Regulations on the end of the smoke stack as a filter?
You're right though. How hard is it to say "wood fired boiler". *sigh*
We have those rules too, but no where near the number of cops it takes to enforce such liberal garbage. So, don't scrap them, don't risk jail time for upsetting the cumos, send them to Maine.
After the EPA and DEC got done with them, the model only puts out 1/4 of it's capable BTU capacity, due to all the “emissions” control and restrictive systems they were forced to add to the stove.
Their sales went from 750,000 units per year, down to under 100,000. The factory laid off 3/4 of it's original work force and is now trying to recover by it's market share by making Zero Turn Radius lawn mowers. A market that is already saturated and somewhat over produced.
The sad thing is, the original models they sold worked extremely well and were outrageously efficient. The Government destroyed a good and growing company and ruined their ability to grow. The cost of their stoves went from $5,000 to over $12,000 in just 5 years. The biggest increases and damage to the company occurred after Obama took office.
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves." William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783
By destroying 90% of the industry selling these units.
Translation: If you’re cutting your own wood or buying it from a neighbor, we can’t tax it; therefore it is forbidden!
Once I left, I felt better right away.
Laz I wish we could leave but Hubby’s job keeps us here.
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