Randy Peltier, operations manager of Southwest Clean Air Agency, claims in a Jan. 24 story that, “Wood stoves big part of Vancouver pollution.” My family has heated our home for 50 years with wood. Our stove is a catalytic wood heater, and very seldom will you see smoke coming out of the chimney. The truth is heating with wood is not the main polluter in this county. Most of the chimneys you see smoke coming from are not wood-burning.
I remember seeing a person under a bridge with a monitor, and the news report said to put out your wood stoves because there is pollution under there. There were thousands and thousands of gas and diesel cars and trucks traveling over that bridge daily but there was not one word mentioned in the report about auto pollution.
If you want to get serious about the polluters then get in your polluter vehicle and drive down the highway or to the schools where are 30 to 40 school buses and many, many vehicles are on the road. Take your little monitor with you when you go.
Get in the real world. Ride your bicycle to work so you can smell the real pollution. They need to get off the minority wood-burners’ case.
