My first article
on the subject
Now the feedback
is coming in, and it's
almost all negative !
UK Environment Secretary
George Eustice announced
that sales of house coal
and "wet wood" will be
phased out in England
in 2021.
Kiln-dried wood
costs 100% more
than air dried wood,
( aka "wet wood" )
and manufactured
solid fuels
( charcoal briquettes )
cost about 20% more
than coal.
The new rule
estimated to affect
2.5 million homes
in 2021.
Mr. Eustice said
the burning of coal
and air dried wood
as fuels in homes
has become the
“most harmful
pollutant”
across the UK.
Britons are angry,
call the plan
“ridiculous”,
and many
are wondering
how the ban
will be policed.
Typical on-line comments
from the Express.co.uk
Facebook page, where
hundreds of readers
condemned the new rule:
Joe-Isabella McGarry
insisted that he would
continue burning coal
and logs, wrote:
“What a load of rubbish,
I have both coal fires
and log burners and
won’t be giving them up
no matter what regulations
they might to bring in.”
Another complaint:
“So, so sick of this
authoritarian greenist
and nanny state rubbish."
Wendy Mussell complained:
“So what happens if this is
people’s only way of heating
their home’s, this is absolutely
ridiculous, taking away
people’s right’s of how
they want to live, anyway
mankind only contribute
five percent of pollution
in the world, the rest
is natural to the earth.”
Richard Duggan questioned
how the new rules would be
policed, writing:
“Well who will monitor this?
Someone going to get paid
stupid money to drive about
looking at chimneys?”