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Wood heater smoke estimated to kill up to 63 in ACT each year, prompting calls for national ban
ABC Health via MSN ^ | January 15,2024 | Alison Branley

Posted on 01/15/2024 10:26:27 AM PST by packagingguy

Researchers are calling for new wood heaters to be banned from urban areas and existing ones to be phased out after their study showed wood heaters could be killing up to 63 people a year in the ACT alone.

The study published on Monday in the Medical Journal of Australia found there were a similar number of deaths attributed to domestic wood heaters in the ACT each year as they estimated died prematurely in the territory due to the extreme smoke from the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires...

"Some very big recent studies from the United States found higher rates of cancer, for example, in people who use wood heaters even seasonally."

Peter Irga, who lectures in air and noise pollution at the University of Technology Sydney, said while the study was limited by the use of only three air-monitoring sites, overall it was sound.

"Alarmingly, the estimated deaths and costs could in fact be underestimates, if you take into account the potential increased toxicity from PM 2.5 derived from domestic wood heater smoke," he said...

The ACT government is moving to phase out household wood-fired heaters by 2045 except in rural areas.

It came after a report by ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment Sophie Lewis found there was "no safe level of air pollution for human health" and the heaters had no place in the territory’s renewables future.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Weather
KEYWORDS: australia; ban; heating; woodfires; woodheaters; woodstoves
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To: packagingguy

Wood heaters killing people... This just may be the stupidest thing I read in quite a while...


61 posted on 01/15/2024 11:16:38 AM PST by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: Chickensoup

Australian Capital Territory, where Canberra is.

It can get cold in the Blue Mountains, enough that there are some ski areas.


62 posted on 01/15/2024 11:19:32 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: stanne

It’s like a “hot water heater” but it warms up your wood before you burn it! (Snicker, snicker!)


63 posted on 01/15/2024 11:21:25 AM PST by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjam Franklin.)
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To: packagingguy

According to the EPA I can’t run my Husqvarna 272XP chainsaw because it doesn’t meet current emissions standards for a gas powered chainsaw, so I run it extra rich at 32:1.


64 posted on 01/15/2024 11:21:34 AM PST by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: RedMonqey

65 posted on 01/15/2024 11:22:14 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mariner

I live in the Big Valley of CA.

it NEVER gets below 25 and the lowest this year has been 30.

Inversions trap the air.

Yet retards and criminals burn wood anyway.

Because they want the ambiance of a fire.

I hope they burn down their own house.


and THAT is a LOCAL problem for YOU to solve. NOT a CENTRAL FEDERAL PROBLEM.


66 posted on 01/15/2024 11:25:26 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: packagingguy

Thanks for the reminder. Need to move some firewood in.


67 posted on 01/15/2024 11:25:35 AM PST by sasquatch
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To: packagingguy

“their study showed wood heaters COULD BE killing up to 63”

ACT is a developed area with modern police, coroners, hospitals, etc. Why in heck would those doing a “study” need to speculate on the numbers of annual deaths caused by wood-burning heaters, when they could get or derive factual quantities of deaths from coroners and health authorities?

As other commenters have suggested, they are making up numbers to panic people into accepting totalitarian bans.


68 posted on 01/15/2024 11:29:37 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: stanne
What is a wood heater.

Ninety-one mph, or less.

He is more of a slider/change-up pitcher.

69 posted on 01/15/2024 11:29:45 AM PST by Pilsner
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To: packagingguy

ACT is is the equivalent of our Washington DC.

I can’t imagine the Aussies are more fond of the denizens of ACT than we are of the ones in DC...


70 posted on 01/15/2024 11:29:52 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: packagingguy
ACT = Australian Capital Territory

So, it's not something we have to worry about. We have centuries of wood burning in this country with no ill affects. 🤣

71 posted on 01/15/2024 11:34:45 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: 9YearLurker

Thank you!


72 posted on 01/15/2024 11:35:37 AM PST by caver
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To: Robert DeLong

How many animals in Australia kill way more than 63 people?


73 posted on 01/15/2024 11:36:17 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

All of them...


74 posted on 01/15/2024 11:39:42 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: null and void

75 posted on 01/15/2024 11:40:45 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mariner

“I live in the Big Valley of CA.”

Heath, Jared there’s a fire in the barn.
Audrey, get on the buck board.


76 posted on 01/15/2024 11:40:54 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: packagingguy

Why is it that Anglos such as Americans, Brits, Scots, Irish, Aussies, Kiwis, etc. are some of the most anti rights, commie wanna be dictators in the world? Why can’t they just enjoy what they have without trying to ruin it for everybody else? Is it because they have guilty conscience white man disease?


77 posted on 01/15/2024 11:41:31 AM PST by caver
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To: packagingguy; Fred Nerks; naturalman1975; Aussiebabe; melsec

I assume that wood heaters is Australian for wood stoves.

Global warmunism masquerading as health concerns. JMO.


78 posted on 01/15/2024 11:41:50 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: packagingguy
Leftists say they want renewable energy.
Guess what wood is.

79 posted on 01/15/2024 11:42:22 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty)
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To: packagingguy

Yeh, here we go with the wood stove ban again. 😆


80 posted on 01/15/2024 11:43:04 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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