Patio Heaters Are Evil - Patio heaters on - planet up in smoke: The Smoking Ban in Northern Ireland

With the smoker ban advancing into force at midnight on Sunday night, a new website is calling on pubs in Northern Ireland not to advance in patio heaters and to anticipate about added means to accumulate smokers balmy outside.

www.patioheatersareevil.com is a new website committed to answer "why heating up the alfresco doesn't plan that able-bodied and isn't acceptable for the environment."1

There are 5,150 pubs in Northern Ireland. If bisected of them advance in just one low-powered patio boiler Northern Ireland will be abacus an added 6,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere a year1 – all of it authoritative a absolute addition to altitude change.

The architect of patioheatersareevil.com, David Lilyvick, explained "Patio heaters are one of the a lot of activity accelerated accessories you can buy. A low-power patio boiler uses as abundant activity in an hour as 22 ample claret awning TVs.

"As anybody who's been for a alcohol south of the apprenticed will know, abounding pubs acknowledge to the smoker ban by installing patio heaters to try and accumulate their barter warm. With anybody abundant added acquainted of altitude change nowadays, we don't ambition that to appear in Northern Ireland."

Patioheatersareevil.com is calling on pubs above Northern Ireland to assurance up to the website to agreement that they will not be installing patio heaters. According to Lilyvick, "patio heaters are so careless of activity and they don't even plan that well. They can accumulate the top of your arch balmy but if you're stood alfresco on a algid day, you'll still be shivering."

Under the new rules, pubs can still accommodate a covered apartment for their smoker customers. Lilyvick says "Northern Ireland isn't consistently that cold, but there's affluence of wind and rain. A apartment adverse the appropriate way to assure humans from the elements will do abundant added to accumulate smokers balmy than a patio heater." Patioheatersareevil.com accept accounting to the Federation of the Retail Licensed Trade in Northern Ireland highlighting the damaging aftereffect of patio heaters on the environment, and are advancement publicans to anticipate about the ambiance as they adjudge how to acknowledge to the smoker ban.

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Notes
1. Based on abstracts from the UK Government's bazaar transformation programme
www.mtprog.com Assumes an 8.9kW patio boiler is acclimated by pubs for 5 hours a day for 237 canicule a year. Data apropos to amount of pubs in Northern Ireland from www.cateys.com

For added advice acquaintance Lynne Slowey on 07967276502

Or david.lilyvick@yahoo.co.uk

PatioHeatersAreEvil.com is a new site, a admixture of a blog and amusing website. It focuses on patio heaters not because they're the better could cause of altitude change, but because they're the a lot of arresting assurance of a greatly careless attitude to activity use and carbon emissions. Its aswell important to allocution about patio heaters now because by July 2007 a smoker ban will be in force above the UK. If tens of bags of pubs advance in patio heaters the UK will decidedly access its addition to all-around altitude change. This affair is advancing to bulge and some of the patio boiler manufacturers are angry back. The website aswell counters some of the greenwash about these articles from the suppliers of patio heaters.

Patio Heaters Are Evil
33a Lennox Road London N4 3NR UK
Press acquaintance - email: david.lilyvick@yahoo.co.uk
Press contact: phone: Lynne Slowey 07967276502