From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Thursday, June 10, 2010:
One of the questions put to borough officials during a forum on wood smoke pollution was this:
“Isn’t there enough existing laws on the books to take care of neighbors with outdoor boilers being rude to their neighbors and not burning the proper material? Don’t you already have that without having to go through all this?”
The long and the short answer is no.
That’s why there has been no action taken against people who have smoked out their neighborhoods on numerous occasions during the past few winters. The borough had about 150 complaints last winter and could do nothing about them except make a record of who called and when.