Air Quality Advisory in Effect for P.G.

Thursday, April 15, 2010 04:25 PM

Prince George, B.C.- The Ministry of Environment in collaboration with the Northern Health Authority has issued an Air Quality Advisory for Prince George due to high concentrations of fine particulate matter.

· The provincial air quality objective for coarse particles, PM₁₀, is 50 micrograms per cubic metre, averaged over 24 hours. The 24 hour PM₁₀rolling average was 55 µg/m³ at the Plaza 400 downtown, 70 µg/m³ at BCR and 23µg/m³ at College Heights at noon today.

· The provincial air quality objective for fine particles, PM_2.5, is 25 micrograms per cubic metre, averaged over 24 hours. The 24 hour PM_2.5rolling average was 11 µg/m³ at the Plaza 400 downtown site at noon and 8 µg/m³ at College Heights.

· Based on the air quality data, the high levels are mainly due to road dust, as well as emissions from industry and transportation sources such as automobiles, trucks and rail traffic.

· An upper high pressure ridge has brought stagnant conditions over the region resulting in pollutants accumulating in the air shed. This ridge will slowly move eastward in the next 24-hours.

· This episode is expected to continue at least until tomorrow morning.

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Posted by: verballabel on April 15 2010 6:23 PM

And Intercon Pulp has been shut down all week.

Posted by: Harbinger on April 15 2010 6:28 PM

It's those pesky wood stoves, I tell ya.

Posted by: verballabel on April 15 2010 6:43 PM

Why cant the pressure ridge sit right above the jail?? Oh wait... they probably would get hepa-filters in each cell.

Posted by: lmorge on April 15 2010 7:11 PM

Yet another air warning. Dare I return to good ol PG?

Posted by: quesnel on April 15 2010 8:14 PM

The air quality in Quesnel is bad too. And I challenge anyone to name, with facts, a politician in BC realllllly trying to improve air quality.

Posted by: He spoke on April 15 2010 8:26 PM

hmmmm, its gotta be Gordons fault because of him bringing in the HST.

Its caused because of all the canvassers turning up road dust as they are told to get off the property.

Posted by: quesnel on April 15 2010 9:04 PM

"he spoke"--- I haven't laughed so hard in a long time !! Well done !!

Posted by: gus on April 15 2010 9:46 PM

And here I thought the roads had all been cleaned a couple of weeks ago.

Actually, at 8pm tonight, the ozone level is relatively high downtown.

The pm10 skyrocketed up to 140 one hour average, then at 10 pm last night, then dropped withing 3 hours to 36

That was at Plaza 400. Almost looks like they were cleaning downtown streets last night right near the Plaza station. The high went back up a couple of times, eventually to 95.8 at 10am Thursday morning.

Those are the kind of short term events which will send the 24 hour average up to advisory level. Of course, as normal, by the time the average is that high and the advisory is out there the actual short term episodes are over.

A totally flawed system we have and no one is brave enough to fix it. It is like a fire alarm that goes off after the fire is half out.

Posted by: Andyfreeze on April 16 2010 5:53 AM

(cough,cough,wheeze...choke)...actually, it's not..(cough)..all that bad out there.

Posted by: Andyfreeze on April 16 2010 5:55 AM

Good one He spoke...very funny!...nice try!

Posted by: the don on April 16 2010 8:21 AM

i like how they never say its the pulpmill or the refinery.but i guess its true the one with the gold makes the rules.what next chew the air before you breathe.ya that will work

Posted by: Harbinger on April 16 2010 9:48 AM

Maybe we could build and alter a wind turbine to blow all the bad air to Alberta. With a little bit of engineering perhaps