Debris debate: What should happen with Fiona’s remnants?

By Sheehan Desjardins
CBC News
April 16, 2024
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada, Canada East

A year and a half after post-tropical storm Fiona ripped through Prince Edward Island, some are raising questions about how to deal with the debris that remains. Provincial officials have estimated that 13 per cent of the woodland on the Island lost at least 70 per cent of its trees in the September 2022 storm. The clean-up job was massive. Crews worked for weeks to untangle a web of downed trees and power lines, while the P.E.I. government opened 41 disposal sites to its contractors and another 16 for people to drop off their Fiona debris free of charge. …It’s also wildfire season across Canada. With the weather warming up, Simpson worries the pile of drying out trees and branches could be dangerous. “Everybody else’s fire hazard has now become our fire hazard,” she said. “It’s a large pile of wood that we would really like to see gone.”

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