In PEI Canada, the previous Liberal government placed wood boilers beside nursing homes and schools. Where I worked as a nurse in one of these homes, some days you could smell it inside the building.
…Our neighbor burns a firepit despite being told of our health problems. They say it’s only smoke and the fire dept says they can…
We could finally afford to buy our dream home in Alberta but were driven out by neighbours’ wood smoke…
This job entailed exposure to quite a few houses with wood burning fireplaces or outdoor fire pits/brush burning…
The smell and noxious smoke are persistent every day 24/7 — in a very densely populated area.
Over the past 25 years the population of our valley has exploded and with it, the use of wood for home heating…
We had no idea it would be this bad.…I am being robbed of my own health — by others.
I can’t breathe all winter, can’t afford to move, being driven out of our home of twenty years…
…My neighbor has a chimney 15 feet from my house and burns about 20 cords a year from late August to June…
