Posted on 01/31/2023 9:15:34 PM PST by dennisw
Householders who flout air pollution rules on wood-burning stoves could face on-the-spot £300 fines and even a criminal record after the government promised to clamp down on the oldest and dirtiest appliances.
Local authorities responsible for enforcing smoke control rules in urban areas have found it difficult to take people to court and provide evidence beyond reasonable doubt. English councils have issued only 17 fines over six years, despite more than 18,000 complaints.
Now the government has instructed local authorities to consider using powers in the 2021 Environment Act to issue on-the-spot civil penalties, which can range from £175 to £300.
• The real cost of your wood-burning stove For the most persistent offenders, councils will also be able to pursue criminal prosecutions that could result in a fine of up to £5,000 and £2,500 added for every day a breach continues.
The popularity of wood-burning stoves has grown rapidly in the past decade as they became something of a middle-class status symbol. Emissions of one of the most harmful types of air pollution from domestic wood burning, tiny particles known as PM2.5, increased by 35 per cent between 2010 and 2020.
The new enforcement drive comes as the government’s new environmental improvement plan aims to reduce the amount of smoke that new stoves can emit in control areas, which cover London, Birmingham, Manchester and many other UK towns and cities. The limit will fall from 5g of smoke per hour to 3g. The government also pledged to “drive a shift away from older, more polluting appliances” to cleaner stoves.
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Get you a rocket stove, Brit serfs.
At some point, officials, authorities, and those who do their bidding, need to be used as fuel.
Let’s see. Create an electricity, gas, and oil shortage, or make them so expensive no one can afford to heat their homes. Then, prevent people from heating with wood. Soon everyone will be just where the government wants them. Sitting in the dark and cold, starving to death. Mission accomplished!
I know this a UK problem, butI lived with it for years in WA state.
I Ignored the Democrat bastards.
I own guns, they knew it and never fuked with me.
Thus end the lesson.
Cake eaters hate any semblance of working class peasants being independent.
California has even tougher standards than the Brits : 2-2.5 g/hr in addition to municipalities issuing “Spare the Air” decrees on certain days when you can’t fire your stove up at all.
I’m glad forest fires(which environmentalists consider healthy)conform to these new laws
Between the Global Warming Cult and the Covid Jab Cult.....
Tyranny: For your own good.
It’s easy to be cynical about this - but not to be forgotten, for those old enough, is the effect on British cities of the Clean Air acts of the 1950s. By banning the use of untreated coal in open fireplaces (historically the dominant form of domestic heating) the notorious ‘smogs’ of London and elsewhere, which had killed thousands annually, disappeared for good in a few years.
As for woodburning stoves in Britain today - in cities (as distinct from rural areas) these have become popular recently as a trendy fashion statement for the prosperous, rather than as an essential.
Where do you get wood in England?
About 1 out of every 4 homes in Canada has a woodstove and there is plenty of wood... But didn’t they chop down all the trees in Europe to build ships, especially after they figured out that there was a place called North America that was full of trees?
When everything is illegal, the government gets to pick and choose who it prosecutes. This is called lawfare.
They do have wood stoves and fireplace inserts that have catalytic converters in them. They are allowed to burn firewood during burn ban days in the winter.
These people need to be used as kindling
“These people need to be used as kindling”
How many of these transmogrified trans-confused Greenie urbanites have ever started a wood fire in an actual wood stove with kindling? A cooking stove or a heating stove. I have done both. And many times for the wood fired heating stove.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_Power_Station
Meanwhile the UK burns millions of tons of biomass (wood) to generate electricity, and considers this to be renewable energy.
DRAX has built new pellet fuel facilities in Arkansas. They specifically supply the UK. Biomass/renewable/etc and all the popular “green” pr to go with it.
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