Our Mission Statement

The Wood Heat Organization will, through its officers, directors, members and staff:

• Recognize wood as an effective, renewable energy source for household heating and cooking when sustainable forestry methods are used for fuel supply and when the fuel is burned using appropriate technologies and techniques;
  
• Express the public interest in the use of wood as a household energy source and where necessary defend the public’s right to burn wood in responsible ways free of unreasonable constraints;
  
• Promote wood heat safety by publishing and/or distributing information and by providing links to accurate safety information;
  
• Promote the use of smoke emission control technologies that have been shown effective through testing by suitably accredited laboratories using recognized testing methods;
  
• Conduct research and publish information on the use of improved techniques for the effective and efficient use of wood fuel;
  
• Conduct research and publish information about the social, community and economic dimensions of residential woodburning to support effective policy development;
  
• Promote a healthy indoor environment by publishing and distributing information on ways to minimize smoke spillage from woodburning systems;
  
• Promote the sustainable use of wood as an energy source by conducting research and by publishing and distributing information about forestry and wood fuel supply issues;
  
• Recognize that wood is most sustainably and economically used as an energy source at the urban fringe and beyond, and that one household’s woodburning activities can be considered appropriate only if they do not interfere with another household’s enjoyment of their home and property; and
  
• Such other purposes that are consistent with the support of wood as a household energy source.