AQ Advisory Continues into Fourth Day
Prince George, B.C. – Air quality in Prince George and its surrounding areas remains a concern.
This as the Ministry of Environment in collaboration with Northern Health have continued the Air Quality Advisory for Prince George due to high concentrations of fine particulates.
The advisory has been in effect since Thursday. People with chronic underlying medical conditions should postpone strenuous exercise until the advisory is lifted.
“Weak dispersion due to stagnant air is likely to keep concentrations above thresholds for as long as current meteorological conditions exist,” says air quality meteorologist Gavin King.
For more information call the 24 hour Ministry of environment Air Quality index Line at (250) 565-6457 or check the ministry’s website at www.bcairquality.ca.
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Tell that to my neighbours.
I’ve got one on my left burning with his woodstove in his garage and another on my right burning constantly as a heat source.
But they wait until it gets dark. Possibly thinking no one can see it?
“Possibly thinking no one can see it”
Seems to be common practice! Bylaw enforcement = zero! I sure wish Northern Health would take a definite stand on this! But, as usual, the three monkeys rule: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil!
The Federal Gov’t has an air quality index weather.gc.ca/airquality/pages/bcaq-009_e.html that ranks the range of pollutants according to health risk. Right now it shows PG air quality presents low risk to human health. The question is is why do BC standards look so much different?
Perhaps they measure different things? Here’s another way to test the air quality. Go outside, take a huge deep breath (without wearing a mask), repeat a number of times, and think about how you feel.
I think we sometimes overcomplicate things (not that scientifically measuring air quality is bad, it’s actually good). There are times where you don’t need an index to know that the air quality sucks.
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