Road dust in February?
That is an insult to our intelligence.

Unbelievable isn't it? I guess the people paid to protect the primary polluters subscribe to the theory that if you tell a big enough lie often enough, that the masses will eventually have to believe it.

I wonder if the CEOs of Husky and Canfor sit around the board table chuckling at these MOE updates.

combination of combustion emissions (smoke) and road dust.
combustion emissions (smoke) 95%

road dust 4%

nature 1%

not admitting to industrial contributions, priceless!

I do my own air quality updates. We need more committee members.

It is time for the city to sit back and do another study on air quality. Obviously they do not know the difference between road dust and the pollution fron the oil refinery and pulpmills. Road dust is not BLUE. I don't think every house hold in P.G. burns wood to make that much of a difference. It is only the city that does not know where the real polluters are, wake up city council.

Thought the air quality would be better today,don't see Mr. Blowing Smoke on this page today....Hope it stays that way.

Driving down the Hart Highway this morning (at 10:00 a.m.) we counted about two dozen fireplaces/wood stoves emitting clouds of blue wood smoke.

The dense blue layer of smoke covered the area all the way from Birchwood to the Husky Station.

No pulpmill smell whatsoever. I know that in the bowl area wood is being burned as well in some private residences. I know because I have seen it.

There was an Air Advisory in effect meaning that one is not permitted to burn wood unless it is the only source of heating. All the houses in the area have electrical power and most of them are hooked up to natural gas.

Air Quality Advisories are a joke when nobody enforces compliance with the Bylaws.

Harness electric producing windmills on the perimeter of the bowl and blow all our pollutants to Alberta.

Diplomat
It is not the wood burning that is causing the problem, it is Northwood coming down river covering Beaverly, Airport Hill and then settling into the bowl. It is visually easy to track.

The woodsmoke coming out of the fire place chimneys and stove pipes does exactly WHAT?

It doesn't rise up straight into the air under an inversion condition - it forms a layer, close to the ground.

Why is there a bylaw prohibiting burning wood during an Air Advisory? Obviously it has been determined that wood burning contributes to the overall problem to such a degree that it should not be permitted.

On the Hart (don't know about your area) it is very plainly visible that the layer of smoke is coming from private residences.

Of course you are correct when you say that one can track the emissions from Northwood. But it is just as easy to track the origin of blue wood smoke and it does indeed smell like burning wood.

Pulpmill and oil refinery emissions have a different aroma.