Freedom of Air - Public Awareness of Outdoor Wood Boilers

If you have been following the news over the past few weeks some major announcements have been made regarding banning and limiting the use of OWBs.  Please check out the News 2009 link if you haven't already and you will see many of the news stories we are referring to.

In Pennsylvania, the state's Environmental Quality Board is seeking public opinion on OWBs.

As the OWB industry continues to promote their products one thing that is certain is that they are being very confused with Wood Pellet burners and Wood Pellet technology.  Below is an example of "wood pellets" at a coal burning plant which is converting to using pellets.  Next to that is a picture of chopped wood. Notice any difference?

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Well while conducting research this past week we came across the City of Denver's Outdoor Air Quality Page:

We really think this is a great way of addressing the issues of Air Quality. Sure not everything is perfect about the program but it is definately light years ahead of other city's mentality on wood smoke and air pollution.

I find that this is...

With the burning season on the brink we made sure the "links page" is current and up to date.  We added a few very important websites which each have a wealth of information regarding OWBs. 

If you know of a website we are overlooking or you have a website please contact us and we will make sure it is added ASAP.

Also to note the OWB Resou...

We plan on updating the FAQs section of our website for this upcoming year shortly. The last update was May 2008 so a few updates need to be made.

One in particular is the new crack that OWBs try to fall into by claiming to be like wood chip burning heaters.

Many people are just plain confused with what an OWB is compared to a wood-chip furnace or from a...

During the weekly update of the website in the news section I came across this news story.

If you have the time to read one article please take the time to do so:

http://7dvt.com/2009outdoor-wood-boilers-appropriate-technology-or-deadly-device

We cannot post who or what brand of OWBs claim the following, only because we will not give credit nor in anyway publicize the OWB products they sell. But here are a few points to ponder:

The new OWBs on the market that claim their products are " EPA Phase 2 qualified"  are supposedly so wonderful and claim to have 85% efficiency.

We all know...

While researching for updates this week for news articles we stumbled across this picture:

This is an old van converted into an Outdoor Wood Boiler.  Once again the point being made is, without any limitations on OWBs who is stopping your neighbor from putting this in their yard next to your home? ...

We want to share with you a question that was sent to us via our MySpace Page:
www.myspace.com/freedomofair

"Do you think it would be possible to find enough individuals with owb problems to interest an environmental attorney to bring a class action law suite against owb manufacturer, since it is their product causing all these health issues?"

We have been asked t...

We have been really busy trying to make improvements to the website. We decided to improve the "News" sections of the website by archiving all of the existing news articles from 2006 to present.

At this time the articles are all still available on this website, but are also backed up in the archives of the website as well. This measure was taken to only ensure the security of the website, to make sure if someone maliciously attacked the site all of the hard work and d...

I came across this video of a friend of mine showing the troubles he is going through fighting his battle with OWBs.

If only animals could tell us what they think:

We have now added the videos onto this page. Click on the "Videos of the OWB" page and enjoy.

We hope to eventually add videos of other victims to our page in the near future, so check back often. 

I stumbled across this youtube video while searching the web. I also was able to find a website this person developed. It has a direct link to our page on it as well.  Check out their website here:  http://sites.google.com/site/cleanairlaporte/

Well another year behind us, and another long year ahead of us.

If you noticed all of the adds on the site are now gone.

We started on updating the 2009 news page. So once again we hope that this helps anyone out there if they are being smoke out of their homes.

In February we are planning to "archive" all of the the news stories from 2006-2008. We will be re-routing the news stories from those years to another location, but they will still be acce...

I hope to handle the add problem on this website. I currently am working on getting the adds removed from the site promoting OWBs. It has bothered me for a while that adds promoting OWBs have infiltrated this site. Now I have had enough and they will be gone shortly.

I am hoping to have all news stories updated for 2008. If we missed one let us know.

I am also going to be probably archiving all of the old news pages. Meaning all of the news prior to 2009 wil...

Over the past few months I have talked to a lot of people who also were inspired by their tragedy (neighbor's nuisance) to create their own websites. When I get the time I will post their websites on my "links" page as well as MySpace page.  But in the meantime below are some really good websites that if you're fighting this fight you should be aware of:

A Canadian Site
http://woodbu...

While traveling to see family for Thanksgiving, we stumbled upon this advertisement at a gas station in southern Illinois. Remember the biggest argument from Outdoor Wood Boiler owners and the sales ploy by Outdoor Wood Boilers manufacturers?

Wood is a renewable energy and is so CHEAP, I save so much more money buying wood th...

It has been a while since we last posted on the blog.  We have had the unique opportunity to meet others around the country who are fighting this battle. The frustration is however some of my colleagues have been successful in their battles and yet we still have not.

At least 3 families whom started the fight back in 2006 when we did WERE successful in shutting down their neighbors nuisance OWB.

We want to state t...

We have just added this blog to our page, we plan on doing a lot with this feature as time permits. Until then please view our page and enjoy. If you haven't already visited our myspace page please do http://www.myspace.com/freedomofair.

Also please check out the non-profit organization we volunteer for here: http://burningissues.org

We look forwarding to hearing from yo...