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This source of energy, reputed to be “green”, generates more fine particles than transport. An absolute taboo in a France that wants to develop it.
Par Geraldine Woessner
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Il kills, so what? Whether it is asked of the Ecological Transition Agency (Ademe), the Ministry of Energy Transition or the Ministry of Health, the question provokes the same frowns and awkward silences. There is reason for this: while PM 2.5 fine particle pollution causes 40,000 deaths each year in France, and plans are multiplying to oust the most emitting car engines from cities, the evil does not disappear. not.
Worse: at the rate at which wood heating is developing, it even threatens to increase, as we can already see in the heart of the Arve valley, in Haute-Savoie, suffocated for decades by chimney fires and the road traffic: following having fallen significantly under the effect of restrictions put in place to limit pollution…
