A pollution island on our street

I live in Edmonton. I have a neighbor using a wood stove in his garage to burn who knows what, which results in a pollution island on our street with high intake fraction for everyone else.

So far the powers that be have been playing hot potato about what this household is doing. I have been exposed for two winters so far. This will be my third winter and they have been at it for a month already and I have no immune system against the toxins.

They burn daily for several hours for no known reason. When they burn I experience shortness of breath, nausea, stinging eyes and sinuses, and headaches. It can take several days to recover from a burning event but when it’s almost daily exposure you can’t recover.

I think that there needs to be a class action lawsuit against municipalities that allow this. We need to get EcoJustice or someone to bring this forward because burning is a personal choice and breathing is not, so polluters should not be given preferential treatment to pollute.

Residential burning bans are no-brainers and would save tax dollars for all levels of governments in health and emergency response. We aren’t cave people and the insistence to keep burning is archaic and unreasonable!