Something Or Other In The Woodpile.....

[Seedy]

Whoops!
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[Bulgarianlily]

I think this is poor reporting.

Reading between the lines of a number of online sources, it seems that the EU could fine Bulgaria for it's lack of implementationof a number of green technologies, including renovating sewage farms, and generating electricity from renewable sources. Andrey Bachvarov, who is promoting bio-mass as a means of electricity generation, seems to be interpreting this to mean that Bulgaria has to switch from using wood stoves for home heating to presumably electric heating. Of course he has a vested interest in putting forward this point of view. I don't think it will catch on in the villages.....

[brianj42]

I think the word bo**ocks springs to mind, not as in the exclamation this is rather bad news, more that it is a load of

I am sure some of these people wake up in the morning and sit over breakfast thinking "what crap can I come out with today to get myself noticed".......

[johnheating]

O well then, I'll just have to cancel the Ukraine visa and remain here.
Kosta stop raising our blood pressure.
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[Ontario]

Interestingly enough, Bulgaria is not the only country to have been found to be infringing the directive ... http://ec.europa.eu/energy/infringements/proceedings/renewables_en.htm ... also infringing the same directive is Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Austria, Luxembourg and Hungary ...

Also interesting is the person quoted in the report stands to make a Leva or 2 if Bulgaria is forced down the renewables/recycling route.

[Seedy]

The fact that no country has yet dared to ban wood burning doesn't mean that there is no danger - we all know that cigarettes are dangerous but they are still legal everywhere I am aware of.

Wood smoke is a rising problem in Greece, for example, where oil and gas prices are getting too high for most normal people - and leading to higher prices here since wood is being exported to Greece at a rapidly-increasing rate.

Here are a few random reports in English (sorry, I can't be arsed to turn them all into "pretty" links!):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_28/12/2012_476299

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_02/01/2013_476588

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_05/01/2013_476993

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_08/01/2013_477364

http://www.lead.org.au/Lanv7n3/L73-3.html

Personally, I love the sight and smell of a wood fire/glass-sided petchka like we use in France but I also find that I cough a lot when I'm in a house which uses one or in an area with a high percentage of them....and our a/c used for heating is still proving to cost less to run than our neighbours' petchkas
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[Bulgarianlily]

There are certainly some areas in Bulgaria where I would not live due to the inversion zones that happen in winter, with cold air trapping the fumes from wood and coal stoves and traffic making for very bad air conditions. Our local town is in a hollow below steep mountains and we have trouble breathing there sometimes (but not in our village at 1000 meters). It is something to be very aware off when buying here.

[Seedy]

Yeah, it's very visible here in our apartment on the slopes of Vitosha when we look across the city and see it covered in fog while we're in the sun....
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[Bulgarianlily]

Yes we call it the 'white sea'.

[brianj42]

[walkage]

Just having another read through this thread and...


BrianJ42 wrote

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[brianj42]

Ooooooooh, below the belt ref





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