CLEAN AIR CANBERRA

Clean Air Canberra is a network of residents and citizen scientists who are concerned about the impact on our health and that of our families from toxic levels of residential woodsmoke pollution. Clean Air Canberra works closely with environmental and health experts in Australia and around the world to inform and educate the community and decision makers about residential woodsmoke pollution and to push for strong public health measures.

Our Vision

To live in neighbourhoods free of woodsmoke pollution and the dangers it poses to our health.

BURNING ISSUES

WOODSMOKE POLLUTION AND A GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE
As the ACT Government considers its response to the report by the ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment into its policies on wood heaters, read David’s story and how he battled with his health, a neighbour’s polluting wood heater and the ACT Government bureaucracy. (posted 20 May 2023)

REGISTER YOUR SUPPORT TO PHASE OUT WOOD HEATERS IN CANBERRA
You are encouraged to write to your local member of the ACT Legislative Assembly calling on them to support the ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment’s landmark report and recommendations to phase out wood heaters in Canberra. To add weight to your letter, remember to copy the Minister for Health and the Minister for the Environment. Clean Air Canberra has drafted an email/letter in Word and PDF to help you with your correspondence. Contact details of your local member can be found here. (posted 13 April 2023)

ASTHMA AUSTRALIA BACKS WOOD HEATER REPORT
Asthma Australia has thrown its full support behind recommendations set down by the ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment in an investigation into the health hazards of wood heater smoke. (posted 27 March 2023)

BECOME AN AIR QUALITY MONITOR
If you are interested in improving air quality in your neighbourhood please email Clean Air Canberra now to learn how you can join the Purple Air Canberra network. (Posted 2 June 2023)

FACEBOOK
Clean Air Canberra is spreading its wings and is also on Facebook. Send us a your post and like. (Posted 21 April 2023)

CANCER COUNCIL ACT POSITION PAPER ON WOOD HEATERS
The Cancer Council ACT has released a Position Paper on wood heaters and the risks of cancer. It recommends people avoid burning wood and substitute wood burning heaters for alternative, cleaner sources of heating. (Posted 25 February 2023)

SIGN OUR PETITION
If you are concerned about residential woodsmoke pollution or its impact on your health, please sign our petition here. (Posted 27 April 2022)

WOOD HEATERS LOSING POPULARITY IN ACT
An ACT Government survey has found 89 percent of residents believe slow combustion wood heaters impact on air quality, 73 percent said they were affected by woodsmoke, around half of all residents believe wood heaters should be phased out in Canberra and most respondents who said they had lodged a complaint believed little or nothing had changed. (Posted 13 October 2022)

PUSH TO PHASE OUT WOOD HEATERS IN MELBOURNE
The Victorian Greens are pushing to to phase out the sale of wood heaters in Melbourne by 2023 after a Government inquiry found they are responsible for 51% of that city's fine particle air pollution. Wood heaters are responsible for almost 70% of fine particle air pollution in Canberra. (Posted 20 October 2022)

AUSTRALIA SIGNS A UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION ON A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT
Australia signed a UN Resolution on 28 July 2022 reaffirming the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. This includes clean air. (Posted 28 July 2022)

WOODSMOKE ISSUE RAISED IN LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
The problem of woodsmoke pollution was debated in the ACT Legislative Assembly as members adopted a motion calling on the ACT Government to trial a program that will make it cheaper and easier for households to transition from wood heaters to electric heaters. See the debate here. (Posted 8 July 2022)