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Citizens Across Canada Unite to State Your Registered Personal Harm in Wood Smoke Exposure . Citizens Growing Concerns Document Your Complaint Form to Help Citizensfeh.com Acquire Ban on All Wood Smoke REGULATION:

The purpose of the Safe from Wood Smoke Complaint Form is to acquire REGULATION so as to prove one voice against wood smoke in Class Action Court Case. We ask you to fill out the form attached. With your statement our objective to protect the public health by protecting the air from smoke emissions or smoke concentrations, to protect the public especially vulnerable children from smoke, from present and future risks,

from disease and death associated with wood smoke contamination and to ensure the children of Canada are prevented from unnecessary injury, to protect all citizens of Canada from carcinogenic emissions from toxins and chemicals , from wood smoke hazardous waste emissions, from unnecessary harm , death and disease as well as the nuisance and hardship , loss of property and loss of rightful access to home as a result of wood smoke exposure. 


WOOD SMOKE FREE AIR REGULATION:

Exposure to wood smoke is proven to pose significant irreversible harm to all citizens. Scientific evidence proves wood smoke endangers the most vulnerable, particularly wood dioxin emissions and the over 100 cancer chemicals found in wood smoke pose developmental increase for disease and cancer. Most vulnerable are fetus, young children, adolescents and women. Wood smoke is also implicated in Breast Cancer as dioxin , benzene causation studies confirm tumor transformation to cancer in exposure to emissions and wood smoke carcinogens. With one in eight women now diagnosed with breast cancer and environment proven to be the major cause of all cancers the exposure to carcinogenic wood smoke must be prohibited and legislated in local. Provincial as well as federal laws governing the Constitution of Canada. Supreme Court action may be necessary to enforce this law which we pursue at Citizens for Environmental Health.com Please fill out the form below to register the evidence we need to support the case against wood smoke in Canada.

No person may conduct wood burning or expose the public to wood burning hazardous air waste toxic emissions. This law prohibits wood burning, including all wood burning whether commercial, private or residential. No person may conduct wood burning unless regulations provide an emergency exemption. Producers of smoke, wood burners should be aware that unless under exception that are stipulated by local ordnances and national regulation or provincial regulation. Wood burning may never be used without due notification alerted by local authorities, the Fire Department or public messaging as is stipulated by environmental representatives as authority to permit citizens to burn wood. Citizens should contact local authorities to ensure permission during exception emergency stabilization of essential to life requirements. The WOOD SMOKE FREE AIR REGULATION prohibits the use of wood burning in furnaces, wood stoves, inserts or pellet stoves, open fires, Barbeques, boilers, including all movable or stationary sources of solid fuel, eco logs any and every form of wood burning is prohibited by law and violation of this law will result in fine or penalty, confinement or both imprisonment and damages assessed to victims whose complaint will be registered and affirmative action warranted.

Wood burning that produces wood smoke pollution that contains chemical pollutants and is a hazardous from which the public is entitled to be protected from. No one has the right to inflict lethal toxic pollutants in the form og gases or particles classified under size or composition, chemical pollutants, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, formaldehydes, volatile organic compounds (VOC) breathable particles measuring 10 microns or less in diameter, nor those that reach the alveolar region measuring 2.5, sulfur dioxide (SO4), polycyctic aromatic hydrocarbons, (PAH), dioxins or furans, that originate from wood burning and note cause health issues, death and mortality, and greenhouse gases, as well scientific groups acknowledge the existence of a casual relationship between exposure of chemical carcinogens and toxins in wood smoke pollution in the air and mortality and morbidity , cardiovascular disease, stroke asthma and cancer, originating from wood smoke , wood burning combustion process, a toxic substance containing hazardous waste, 1

1 "Hazardous waste" means a waste or combination of wastes that, because of its quantity, concentration, biological degradation, leaching from precipitation, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, has either of the following effects:

1. Causes or significantly contributes to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; or
   
   
2. Poses a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when disposed or
   
   
3. Emissions from all and any wood burning when dispersed or emitted into public areas, private resedential areas, interior as well as exterior community right of way, streets passage ways commercial and public property in the atmosphere, emit lethal toxins onto
   
   
4. Community or private resedential property, either exterior or interior.
   
   
5. Wood burning is unlawful and enforcement of this law will be quick and with due process of the law.
   
   
6. The government is violating Canadian Law by permitting wood burning.
   
   
7. This provision permitting Citizens to burn wood violates Tort law guaranteed in the Supreme Court of Canada.
   
   
8. Currently wood burning n is proven in epidemiological and toxicological studies have clearly demonstrated that outdoor wood smoke pollution causes acute and chronic health effects, including premature mortality and excess disease, hospitalization, contributes to city and rural pollution that endangers children in its exposure wood smoke is unnecessary, toxic smoke is avoidable and by its risk is an illegal act. The effects of this smoke in the range of confirmed effects in the ascending number of people affected: premature birth, birth defects, hospitalizations, visits to emergency, medical consultations, school days missed, symptomatology of inflammation and infections, cardio respiratory and malaise.
   
   
9. Acute Effects of wood smoke include heightened risk in the aggravation of existing or non existing heart disease, heart failure, arrhythmia, angina, respiratory infection, immune deficiency, asthma in children, asthma development, triggering of asthma attacks causing death, respiratory pneumonia and viral bacterial and pulmonary cardio and throat infections and inflammatory cardio vascular death and disease.
   
   
10. Application of this wall is essential to ensure Canadians rights are protected under the constitutional and Civil law, the right to the peaceful enjoyment of life and to the essentials of life, air being essential to live
    
    
11. And smoke recognized as the antecedent of air.
    
    
12. AIR WELL Law includes 2009 enforcement.
    
    
13. Prosecution of the law will face fines already in existence on the Island of Montreal,
    
    
14. Wood Boiler Penalty use present Law imposes a fine of 2500. 00$ since 2002.
    
    
15. Violators of the AIR WELL LAW will be faced with a fine of 2500.00$

Hazardous wastes are more specifically defined in regulations adopted by DNR and by

EPA that list specific substances determined to be hazardous. 

WOOD SMOKE COMPLAINT FORM 

Canada

Provinces and Territories

Complete this form in full as we will not process anonymous wood smoke complaints.

Return the completed form to info@citizensfeh.com

If you have any questions, contact a Customer Service Representative at 514-699-SAVE (7283) or

Fax to: 514-695-7303

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You should be aware that this form is a public record and, on request, will be provided to anyone who requests a copy, including the person alleged to be the source of the complaint. We will do our utmost to protect your privacy however we are not responsible for damages and claim no responsibility for actions legal or otherwise. Our objective is to strengthen right to home, property and healthy smoke free air. Thank you from all the children, and thank you for helping protect the air and the basic right of all Canadian’s, our right to life, to air.

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Name of person believed to be responsible for wood smoke:

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PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC CONSULTATION

BY-LAW CONCERNING SOLID-FUEL-FIRED EQUIPMENT

That draft by-law was adopted, by resolution, at the city council meeting of February 23, 2009.

In accordance with section 125 of the Act respecting land use planning and development (R.S.Q., chapter A-19.1), the mayor has designated Josée Duplessis, chairman of the standing committee on transportation, infrastructure management and the environment, to hold a public consultation.

Date Thursday, March 19, 2009, at 7 p.m.

Place Council chamber of city hall

275, rue Notre-Dame Est

(Champ-de-mars metro station) www.stm.info

At that meeting, Josée Duplessis will review the draft by-law. All persons and organizations wishing to express their views should register within 30 minutes of the meeting, or register in advance with the Direction du greffe at 514-872-3770.

Additional meetings will be held on Tuesday, March 24, and if necessary, on Wednesday, March 25, same time, same place. Persons or organizations unable to attend the meeting should forward their comments to the Direction du greffe, by March 25, at the address shown below, or to commissions@ville.montreal.qc.ca. The committee will table its report at a subsequent council meeting.

Persons with reduced mobility may use the west side entrance (Place Vauquelin).

The council chamber room is equipped with an auditory assistance system. If you are using headsets, tune in to 100.3 FM for clear coverage. Interpretation services are provided, on request, to persons with a hearing disability, subject to the availability of interpreters.

OBJECT OF BY-LAW

The object of the by-law is to ban the installation inside a building of wood-burning stoves or fireplaces, and to determine the fines for each type of offence.

The by-law is not subject to a referendum vote.

The background material may be consulted at any Accès Montréal or borough office, and at the Direction du greffe. It is also available at ville.montreal.qc.ca/commissions

Information Direction du greffe

Division du soutien aux commissions et suivi

275, rue Notre-Dame Est, R-134

Montréal QC H2Y 1C6

514-872-3770

514-872-5655 (fax)

commissions@ville.montreal.qc.ca

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Parution dans The Gazette: le jeudi 5 mars 2009

Welcome to all citizens from all corners of the world.

 Here, at Citizens for Environmental Health, we invite you to take hands and with widespread energy and through groundbreaking intention, we will awaken to a new positive and purposeful direction.

Welcome to where a new thought form will be recognized and, from where, instead of failure, we will discover, manifest, and create change. We acknowledge that the hardest problem to fix is the one we do not know exists.

We know that air is essential to all life. However most people know very little about the air that we breathe in wood smoke neighbourhoods Unfortunately, people have not been told much about this smoke polluted air. So, with this site, we will do what we must do to give ourselves the best chance to live cancer risk free and replenish our neighbourhoods with safe smoke free air. Welcome to where we will replenish the air.

Smoke is the antithesis of air. Smoke, wood burning, we have romanticized and somehow taken for granted, as harmless. Far from harmless, harmful smoke, produced from burning tree parts in 2008, is the world’s third highest source of pollution and this smoke is a real threat to our health and all life on the planet. This burning smoke emits billions of tons of emissions, carcinogenic chemicals, carbon, benzene, fumes, dioxin and hexacholorbenzene into the air that we breathe each day.  

All smoke and critical to note is the fact that contrary to what we have been told, EPA certified smoke offers no emission decrease in home burning of wood. EPA Certified stoves, in independent research prove to emit even higher levels of cancer causing emissions, dioxins and deadly Agent Orange furans. There is no safe smoke.

 Little is known about this second hand neighbourhood smoke. Yet, thousands of studies conclude that residential smoke is a major cause of all illness, heart disease, stroke, asthma, diabetes, all cancers, including breast cancer and even death. Smoke produced from residential wood burning costs 24% of the total green house gases in Canada each year. In Quebec , where emissions have grown 20% in the last five years, this smoke causes 55% of particulate matter, a deadly molecular soot pollution that enters deep into the lungs. And, all that smoke, people know very little about. People deserve and have the right to know. We think differently, we act more responsibly, when we know the facts.

Residential Wood Burning Smoke Pollution has become a primary cause of carbon emissions, benzene and dioxin, and is among the worse and the highest contributor of pollution in the world. Wood burning deforestation is not the way of the new earth that we see. We can change.

Welcome to where we learn about how we can change the thoughts that have not been our servant but our ignorant master. Wood burning is the cause of over, 90% of winter pollution, however, this pollution in Canada , is caused by only 4% of people. Most people however, are not even aware that this smoke is a serious health threat. Issues about smoke been silenced for years, so, most do not know that the smoke from their chimney causes suffering to their neighbours, triggers asthma, heart attacks, and stroke and claims thousands of innocent lives in Canada alone, each year. Unknown to many, as Devra Davies stated in her celebrated book, Cutting Through the Smoke, “ Pollution never shows up on death certificates.”  According to Health Canada , thousands of Canadians die each year from smoke carcinogenic exposure. Neighbourhood smoke is the silent killer that we know little about.  Why have we been, for so long, kept in the dark about this smoke?

The devastation caused by the toxins in smoke is causing environmental havoc and destruction to all living things. We must change.
It is time we clear the air.
Welcome to where we take responsibility for the safety of our children. Asthma is the highest cause of death in children. Let us act to make sure the kids breathe air that is not a toxic mixture of smoke. Children are at the highest risk. Can we allow smoke, fumes and chemicals to be constantly emitted into their growing bodies? Smoke is scarring their lungs and accumulating in blood cells of our children. With this true coming together for better, we make certain that the children are all able to live more safely, free from all cigarette and wood burning smoke. We owe it to our kids! We will act.

As a mother of a son who has seen the face of cancer first hand, I ask you to join us in this movement where we believe that the best treatment is prevention. Whether for cancer, lung disease, asthma, stroke and heart disease and Breast Cancer prevention from avoidable risks is crucial. We invite you help us voice the need and to fight for change so that citizens, parents, and children will not be made to suffer environmental cancer. Here is where asthma, coughs and lung infections, caused from breathing smoke will not get a place to start. We can prevent all the environmental cancer and diseases caused from breathing smoke-toxic neighbourhood dirty air. Is burning wood worth the cost? We Adopt Prevention as the Best Cure!

We together can and must reduce risks and prevent exposure to all smoke. Reducing risks is breathing smoke free. 

We invite you to become informed about an unknown subject, this silent killer that is causing illness, great distress and suffering and especially endangering our children. Smoke is placing kids at very heightened risk. Smoke from chimneys is causing irreversible environmental damage and placing our health and the health of the unborn at heightened risk.

 Vital to changing is the urgent need to address is the lack of science and lack of integrity in EPA Certified Stoves. Unless we awaken to the facts, as is stated in the critical review of EPA Integrity, May 22, 2008 in which, Senate House Leader, Waxman states that EPA decisions “are not based on Science nor regulations, but are adopted by the White House for political reasons” we will not see real change. We need to dissect the myth of this power industry and see that the truths about EPA Certified stoves. Independent tests (INTERTEC) conclude stove emissions show an increase of 400% dioxin in EPA chimney smoke. As with all emissions, studies conclude none, no emissions are reduced in home use of stoves. Emissions are reduced in lab testing only. The industry owns the labs! The industry certifies itself! People need to know the studies and reviews prove that testing is not based on scientific facts.

 There is no reduction in concentration but what is to be made caution is the fact that Dioxin in smoke exposure is placing women at risk to develop Breast Cancer. Walking in smoke is like smoking 16 cigarettes in one half hour!

 We must stop this smoke that is placing women at risk. Studies prove carcinogens from breathing this smoke accumulate in the blood cells and fatty tissue, causing changes, directly impacting and increasing risks for women to develop Breast Cancer. It is urgent. We must act.

 
  Together we can and must reduce these avoidable risks and prevent exposure to all carcinogenic smoke. Reducing risks is breathing smoke free. 

We acknowledge the respected government and institutional research that proves that wood smoke is more toxic than cigarette smoke. We extend a welcome to our institutions and government agencies. We expect and oblige our elected policy makers to adopt policy that is, the best and the safest policy, that is informed, and that is clearly the most forward thinking, sustainable health based, environmental policy.

Nothing less is acceptable. PREVENTION is the BEST CURE.

Health must be number one in policy.

We realize that, unfortunately, people have been kept in the dark about neighbourhood smoke.

Seeing that people are victims of not knowing much about this second hand smoke, we want to make a difference in getting the information out there. We welcome citizens, policy makers and the media to a place where people are respectively given access to the facts, where they can make informed decisions, become healthier citizens, live and breathe in health and enjoy the best quality of life. We ensure that life is given the best chance, so that people can live happier, longer and better, breather clean and safe air in their homes and neighbourhoods. People must not be forced to breathe neighbours’ toxic smoke in their own homes. People have the right to live smoke free. No one should be able to take your breath away.

We believe and do our best and will continue to see that the information is made easily available, so good willed citizens can act responsibly, stop polluting with smoke, and do what is right for our environment and our families. We must protect the air for future generations.

 
We invite all citizens from worldwide communities to learn, share in the dialogue, chat with each other, support, and participate, so that we informed and determined to change. We must take a new direction.

We know it is time for change and we believe that through willpower and awareness, citizens in communities will engage in change, and will help each other live more safely, in smoke free neighbourhoods. Climate change is upon us. We may not have a second chance.

 Wood burning smoke is threat to our well-being and future generations. Witnessing the raging earth now struggling to combat climate change, the world food shortage, the hungry desolate people displaced, those before our eyes, who, by the millions, are falling victims to the ravishes of climate change, we too, may soon become one of them. We humans are the fragile. We are the meek and the humble. We must change. We ask each other to think about today and tomorrow’s children. They need us.  What are we leaving for our grandchildren who shall inherit the air and the earth? We had a beautiful world handed to us what can we do to now give our children the same beautiful earth? Certainly dirty smoky air is not what our children should be handed, nor expect from us.

We need to act towards change and courageously create a better, cleaner and safer world. It is time for change. We have no choice. Please join together, with Citizens for Environmental Health, join a world where we work towards a wide awakened conscious.  Becoming a member, if you wish to donate, we appreciate your help. In joining, you will receive our newsletter, and we will unite our voice. We can see that this is so important. We have never needed each other more than we do today. Time is of essence. Welcome! Become a member. It’s free. The best things in life are free. Our health is our most precious resource. Our earth,  our air, what we need to enjoy life. We recognize that is we may stand to  lose.. Now is the best time we have. Let’s get to work, create hope and make this a cleaner world.  Let’s make successful change happen. We can and we will make a new, safer, smoke free world, a reality. Let’s do it for the kids!

Welcome! Let’s do it! We can and we will.

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