Lets have a smoke. Free smokes today

The joys of living in a valley...without wind or rain we shall have to endure....

By the looks of the picture of Prince George, it is a lot clearer there then Quesnel. Don't get me wrong, it is very smokey in P.G., and I believe Williams Lake is worse then Quesnel. We drove through Williams lake last night and it was really thick.

It is hard to breath in Quesnel, I sure hope it clears soon.
A good steady rain for a coupe of days would sure help them fire fighters. I wonder how they can breath,

Does any one know if this smoke advisory means that Transit buses are free on Tuesday.

The ministry of environment telephone number for air quality advisories says that things are really great.....unfortuneatly the info was recorded on Friday the 13th with an update said to happen at 9am on Monday August 16....that would be today.....

There is no update. I sense that the air is very bad.

It's brutal. I have been coughing for 1 and 1/2 months. Got a chest ex-ray and scheduled for a Pulmonary test on Dec. 2nd. Hopefully nothing serious is wrong.

Thought the cough was gone over the weekend, but back full course today. Environment, air quality etc. definitely has an impact on my lungs, breathing (shortness of breath) and associated coughing.

Norm 1. There is no such thing as a free bus ride. Every day that they do not charge bus fare costs the City (BC Transit) $12000.00. We pay through taxes.

So one way or the other you pay. If you want to get somewhere for free, and not contribute to pollution, then you would have to walk, or take a bicycle.

The transit buses are huge carbon pollutors. Did you ever watch one take off from a bus stop.

Chester. I agree that this air is the pits for anyone with breathing problems. Hopefully the City and Regional District are making note of the fact that this pollution is coming from the West.

If you put heavy industry in or around Isle Pierre, you are almost gauranteed that when the wind comes up, the pollution ends up in Prince George.

Our only saving grace at this time is that there is no industry planning to locate in Prince George in the immediate future. Or if there is, it is a well kept secret.

Have a nice day.

How much globull heating does the carbon from a bus cause. Oh by the way this so called man caused globull warming science is quickly falling apart as the science is being shown to be corrupted. http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Believe it or not, the smog showing in the picture in the article isn't that unusual for PG. I've seen the exact same thing driving into the bowl from the East on days where there are no forest fires and the only thing impacting the air is the heavy industry. Now certainly, not every day is like that, but we must not kid ourselves, we often get air this bad even when there are no fires out there . . .

NMG we never get air this bad without forest fires. That so called smog you refer to coming into town on occasion is this natural phenomenon called fog. Unless the pulp mills are produces fog these days which im pretty sure there not you can stop blaming them

Superdave is right NMG, either that or you need to clean your windows.

superdave and StreetWise2, you don't happen to work for some of our great heavy industry based corporate citizens do you?

I stand by my statement. I've been around here a long time and unless you are saying that the stinky yellow haze that originates from the pulp mill stacks is a naturally occuring trend, then I think you are the ones who need to reconsider your position. I know the difference between fog and smog and there have been many a day that Cranbrook hill is not visible when coming into town from Hwy 16 East, even though the airport is crystal clear. You really should head to higher ground during and AQ advisory and take a loom. Oh and btw, my breathing doesn't seem to distinguish between poor AQ from forest fires and poor AQ from industrial emissions. Actually I lied. The last two days haven't been as bad to me as our normal AQ advisories. Strange eh?