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If you'd like some relief, to have a chance for some clean air in your air, time to speak up! The health you save by fighting field burning might be your own.
DEQ is re-opening the public comment for the Proposed Willamette Valley Field Burning Rule Revisions. This comment period begins Wednesday, May 12, 2010, and closes Friday, May 21, 2010, at 5 p.m. All comments must be received by that deadline. The previous comment period was April 1 to April 30, 2010. DEQ is re-opening the comment period to provide the public with additional opportunity to comment on these rule changes.
News Release
Willamette Valley Field Burning website
To submit comments on this rulemaking you may use one of the following options:
- Email to fieldburningrules@deq.state.or.us
- Fax to 503-229-5675, attention Brian Finneran, or
- Mail to DEQ Air Quality Division, Brian Finneran, 811 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97204
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But are smoke particles more or less harmful than pesticides. That's unfortunately the trade-off you must consider. These fields are burned to deal with pests...so if they don't burn, the pesticide use will increase. Just a thought.
Ah, but we don't have to grow grass seed at all. I didn't save the comment I submitted to DEQ but the gist of it was that the field burning is to continue an industry that is using valuable resource land to produce an entirely unnecessary crop, and that what we ought to do is provide grass growers with money and training so that they can do better things with the land, creating low-input polycultures to replace the monoculture that, as you say, requires so many inputs. We are coming into a crisis period of mass world hunger -- using land in Oregon to grow grass seed is immoral, as that land could be growing food and fiber without posing any of the health costs on unwilling victims.
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