Woodstock — Paul Miller has two words for the watery cow manure being pumped from catch basins under his barns into a large tanker truck — and those words, surprisingly, are not “that stinks!” The words are: “liquid gold.” For the record, the manure does stink, and by all accounts would be even worse if […]
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Sides ready for new round on outdoor wood furnaces
You can chuckle all you want about outdoor wood furnaces and whether they’re a subject the legislature should even bother with given that there are probably only a couple of thousand in the state. Then you might want to get out of the line of fire. “I’ve been here a long time,” said Bob Girard, […]
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Supporters, foes of outdoor wood furnaces square off in hearing
The tension between use of local, low-cost energy sources and the health effects of breathing wood smoke played out for hours in a hearing room Wednesday, as the Environment Committee heard testimony from at least 68 people about a bill that would ban outdoor wood-burning furnaces everywhere but farms. About 3,000 of these furnaces are […]