Last week, along with Craig Gutowski and Andrew Vickers from HPBAC's Ontario chapter, I met with staff from Ontario's Ministry of Environment in Toronto.
We have been working closely with them for over a year now, assisting them with their development of guidelines for municipalities who wish to pass by-laws regulating the use of wood burning for residential heating. Through our involvement and a lot of hard work, these guidelines are now well balanced and "industry friendly" while still assisting municipalities in dealing effectively with air shed quality issues.
During our discussions, we often spoke of the need for a change out program. As we all know the old technology stoves are the real problem, not the modern appliances we now supply. So last week we started mapping out a plan together and hope to have something ready to launch in June 2011. We have invited the Ministry folks to the Fireside Symposium in Collingwood where we hope they will present the new municipal guidelines as well as details of the change out program.
Tony Gottschalk
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