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Utah Proposes Winter Wood Burning Ban to Improve Air Quality
2015-01-22 18:25:57| Waste Management - Topix.net
In an effort to improve air quality across Utah during the winter season, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality has proposed a seasonal wood burn ban, much to the chagrin of many locals. The ban would eliminate solid fuel burning in fireplaces and wood/coal stoves from Nov. 1 to March 15, except for homeowners whose homes are heated solely by wood.
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Study Downgrades Climate Impact Wood Burning
2015-01-19 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Surprising new research has sharply downgraded the perceived climate impacts of the gathering and burning of wood by residents of poor and developing countries who rely on the fuel to keep warm and cook food. Of the 2.8 billion people forced to use wood for fuel, often filling their humble homes with life-shortening soot, the vast majority are chopping down and gathering their fuel in ways that allow forests and woodlands to regrow. That isn't just good for the environment around them -- carbon-hungry...
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Canada: Leaking wells a burning issue
2014-12-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Leader-Post: Serge Fortier has been trying for years to raise awareness about leaking wells along the St. Lawrence River. Nothing has been quite as effective as setting them on fire. "The reaction came very rapidly," says Fortier, an environmental activist whose fiery demonstration near Ste-Francoise has prompted the Quebec government to acknowledge it has a problem - one that regulatory officials are often not keen to discuss. In Alberta, where old wells have been uncovered in schoolyards, backyards and at...
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AgCenter: Burning to remove cane trash saves growers millions
2014-12-04 08:16:24| Sugar Industry News
Sugar cane is one of Louisiana\'s most valuable agricultural commodities, contributing about $771 million to the economy in 2013. However, the state\'s sugar industry would be about $120 million less profitable without the use of one age-old tool fire according to LSU AgCenter researchers.
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Playing with fire to shoot a new burning log video
2014-12-03 02:40:25| Telecom - Topix.net
The first Shaw Fire log - Canada's answer to what had been a sensation in New York since the 1960s - dates back to 1986; a way to broadcast content on a round-the-clock channel in Edmonton so employees could take Christmas off. The first Shaw Fire log - Canada's answer to what had been a sensation in New York since the 1960s - dates back to 1986; a way to broadcast content on a round-the-clock channel in Edmonton so employees could take Christmas off.
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