San Francisco: Ban home fireplaces?

[JohnRich 4]

News:

Wood fires could be banned in homes

"First it was secondhand cigarette smoke and now it's the family fireplace.

"Bay Area air quality regulators are considering banning wood fires in residential fireplaces on bad air quality nights, citing evidence that smoke from wood-burning fires cause as much harm as cigarette smoke...

"Sacramento County, the San Joaquin Valley and some Bay Area cities have already imposed similar bans, which include stiff fines for violators."

Source: Examiner

Save the planet: Ban fireplaces!

[shropshire 0]

Does SF suffer from a smog problem?

This does seem a 'little' draconian.

If, there's an environmental problem, lets measure the scale of the problem and go after the big poluters before going after the [apparently] easy ones.

I think that we're all becoming more than little pissed off with knee jerk reactions.

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[tbrown 26]

"Bay Area air quality regulators are considering banning wood fires in residential fireplaces on bad air quality nights

[ryoder 1,590]

Old news here in the Denver metro area:

http://www.denvergov.org/OutdoorAirQuality/WoodBurning/tabid/424913/Default.aspx

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[billvon 3,132]

>there were days when conditions like atmospheric inversions would cause
> a ban on wood burning fireplaces and wood stoves, UNLESS the fireplace
> or wood stove was the ONLY source of heat for the home.

Not a bad compromise. You could also exempt the "clean" woodstoves i.e. the ones that use catalytic converters (or other similar technologies) to clean up the exhaust.

[Lastchance 0]

We have had no burn bans here in MT for years. And it gets damn cold. We get these inversions that just hold the smoke in the valleys. Gets so bad that sometimes we can't see the mountains around us.

I may be getting old but I got to see all the cool bands.

[JerryBaumchen 1,473]

The state DEQ here in Oregon looks at this issue every couple of years.

JerryBaumchen

[TrophyHusband 0]

boise has burn bans during poor air quality times as well.

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