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New fines of up to £300 for using log burners
The aim of the fines is to reduce air pollution
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This IS getting stupid.New fines of up to £300 for using log burners
The aim of the fines is to reduce air pollution
bristol council newest ploy
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The council round here have barely enough money to keep vital services going and I dare bet the same can be said for most others.
To have a squad of smoke spotters creeping the streets and taking notes seems far fetched to me.
And remember most fires are lit in the dark smoke is pretty much invisible then. Added to the fact most will be lit at knocking off time for council employees. You can't tell me cashed strapped councils are going to pay overtime for this.
There's more than a strong whiff of bs about all this to me.
I know where any letters I might get for any of this will end up. STRAIGHT ON THE Fire
To have a squad of smoke spotters creeping the streets and taking notes seems far fetched to me.
And remember most fires are lit in the dark smoke is pretty much invisible then. Added to the fact most will be lit at knocking off time for council employees. You can't tell me cashed strapped councils are going to pay overtime for this.
There's more than a strong whiff of bs about all this to me.
I know where any letters I might get for any of this will end up. STRAIGHT ON THE Fire
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Seems pretty hard to police, but, considering the three stage process and relatively small fine, not outrageous. Probably more about raising awareness of not burning soggy plywood and kitchen units than earning any money.New fines of up to £300 for using log burners
The aim of the fines is to reduce air pollution
bristol council newest ploy
To be honest, woodburners in cities are a bit daft. Sourcing and drying a fuel, lighting and tending fires takes time and space, neither of which are in abundance in city life. Especially when there's a perfectly functional and relatively cheap heat source that literally comes down a pipe.
Having driven along a Border's valley at the weekend, and seen the smoke/smog hanging in the valley around a couple villages, I'm surprised more hasn't been done about log and coal burning.
If you go through some rural villages/towns on a cool still day, the amount of smoke and particulates hanging in the air is often far worse than being in most inner cities.
If you go through some rural villages/towns on a cool still day, the amount of smoke and particulates hanging in the air is often far worse than being in most inner cities.
As many as 12,000 people a year would die in London due to smog. Strange how the anti nuclear mob are so strong and yet nobody says ban coal.
I know high sulphur coals are banned now but particulates from wood and coal are far worse than from diesel vehicles.
Germany is currently generating 75% of its power from coal and gas. CO2 emissions are at record levels
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Really, nobody? Plenty want coal gone. I burn a small amount each year as it does have some good qualities for rural heating but I wish I didn’t have to.
Nuclear is I think in most people’s opinion a better option than coal for a power station but I stand to be corrected there.
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Germany has/is phased/phasing out their nuclear power plants in favour of coal.
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Councils in England have been given new legal powers to issue fines between £175 and £300 to households who emit more than 3g of smoke per hour from chimneys.
Good luck proving that in court
Good luck proving that in court
And that is exactly why their CO2 emissions are through the roof. It seems banning nuclear is far more important to them than saving the planet.
I think they've now all been shut down.
However a power station is going to burn coal far more efficiently than your typical household fire or stove, so per tonne of coal, the particulates from a power station are going to be less than from households.
The Germans were just on the news telling the journalists what the UK should do. Those who live in glass houses and all that...
Particulates kill people CO2 kills the planet - simple
The claims that burning wood are carbon neutral are rather dubious. Fair enough when people replace what they cut but when vast swathes of virgin forest are cut down 3000 miles away to feed Drax I suspect not.
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And the particulates from a house stove is much greater but a hell of a lot cheaper for the household than paying for gas, and paying for electric heating is even more expensive, needs must
Yeh I burn pallets also fizzy, but not exclusively so, whatever I burn there‘s not a lot of smoke once up to temperature I run my stove hot by doing that and because of the secondary burn there’s very little in the way of unburned hydrocarbons, that’s the way you should use a wood burner, if there’s a lot of smoke it’s either not up to the correct temperature or because the vents are not set correctly or the wood is not seasoned.As you know I burn scrap pallet wood. The thicker stuff from 2 way pallets thst nobody wants. Incredibly clean burning. Only a tiny bit of smoke on start. No smells outside the house not that I have any neighbours. I even save all the nails for scrap
