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Prepare your home for winter now with simple heating and firewood tips to stay warm, cut bills and reduce smoke for cleaner air across Canterbury.
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Monitoring across our seven towns and cities in Waitaha Canterbury shows a clear downward trend in high-pollution days between 2000 and 2025.
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A local first home-buyer was back in summer pyjamas in winter – thanks to a fully subsidised heat pump installation through a regional clean heating programme.
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We’re clearing the air on smoky chimneys and what the rules really mean for Waitaha Canterbury households.
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While air pollution in Waitaha Canterbury has been trending downwards over the past 20 years, smoke from wood burners is still impacting our winter air quality.
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Burning chemically treated wood creates toxic smoke and ash that endangers human health and contaminates our environment.
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Winter weather has settled in, and as Cantabrians crank up their wood burners, we start to see high-pollution days in many of the areas we monitor.
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Environment Canterbury has committed to refunding all interest payments made by current and former borrowers in the Healthier Homes Canterbury scheme.