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alaskun:
I GUARANTEE you they're going to fuck this up. 

Meanwhile they're shoving natural gas up our asses before we even have a supply line or any infrastructure, far-exceeding any of their cost estimates, criminalizing woodstove users, and taking crazy aggressive actions against people using the waterways or doing anything that has to do with fish...

weedbix:
So he went
to the store
and he bought himself some milk
but he noticed
it's expired
so he looks for the receipt
but he can't
find the thing
so he decides
to call it quits
then he looks
at the ground
and he sees it on his shoe

Narcoleptic Insomniac:
How can they enforce the woodstove thing?

alaskun:
Vehicles are already driving around with imaging stuff/'sniffers'/air quality testers on the roofs.

Also aerial imaging, but they don't talk about that.

 Heavily-advertised programs, which are voluntary at first, involving turning in your neighbors/the 'offenders,' have been announced/in place for years now, and they're digging in, not giving up.
The city I live in is part of a natural valley/bowl. Cold temperatures/inversion + all the vehicles/furnaces in that bowl means poor air quality. But it's being twisted as a human/wood-caused-phenomenon and they're taxing people for it, with the stated intention to ramp up that 'pressure.' 
A few years ago we were described worldwide as one of the worst cities in the country as far as air quality - even higher than NYC and places in china -  based on totally contrived/misrepresented numbers. Not because we actually are bad, but because they're trying to force some bullshit through.  And it's very clear to anyone actually watching it.

And nevermind the gigantic wildfires/opaque skys the army starts every summer...

"Voluntary burn bans."   Roadsigns stating this all over the place now.

 It starts with fines. failure to pay a fine leads to... what?

they've already had woodstove buy-back programs where they've destroyed many modern/clean/highly-efficient/expensive stoves, instead of donating them to places using dirtier/worse/more expensive equipment.   Counter-intuitive by definition, criminal if you have common sense...

pretty sure there are countless other ways they could claim to be enforcing violations, all the way down to stealing the king's wood

LeonLikesToRock:
Do you guys have a problem with fires or are you just being bent over?

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