Good job. On the research part, an environmental model of polution can be constructed and the visualisation run on the HPC machines.

Research, Education Other:
-hire clean air ambassador
-hire air quality coordinator

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More city staff with big pay and little or nothing still done about air quality. Why hire more people who can't do anything?? City Hall staff will soon outnumber the rest of us.

Good to see the final results of the report, now hopefully we can fix some of the problem areas and quit finger pointing. Unlike the comment above I think a coordinator would be useful.

As a long term resident of PG who has not plans to move I am very thankful that air quality is being addressed and I thank everyone who is working on trying to improve the air for all us. I should stop here,....BUT

I am a bit concerned about using the Plaza 400 site as the place to measure air quality. Not a lot of people live downtown. Lots of people work there but their air quality is highly dependent on their office building HVAC system.

I think they should focus on the data they get from the locations where people live and kids go to school (Gladstone and Lakewood). I have absolutely no data to back up my claim but I bet the % of particulate in those areas coming from road dust & parking lot maintenance is a lot higher than 15%. It may be better for the health of our kids to encourage the big box stores and malls to sweep periodically in the winter when possible rather than focus on trains and pulpmills????

Good to see CN rail named as a significant contributer.

I believe it is still the case, please correct me if I am wrong but the diesel locomotives burn is not the low sulfur fuel we are required to use. For example compare the particulate emission from a 10 year old diesel truck designed for higher sulfur diesel to that of a 2010 diesel truck designed for low sulfur diesel. Notice the soot cloud is not as common. The sulfur is just one piece of this but generally that's the end result with improved fuel standards.

Although CN is federally regulated they need to be at this table with a plan on how they are going to clean up their emissions locally.

Unfortunately if CN does not want to take part they don't have to. Municipal or Provincial government cannot tell a Federally regulated business how they will conduct business. Not sure what the answer is other than ask the Federal Minister responsible to get this significant industry to the table to help improve our air shed.

Overall this study appears far more sound than previous.

Permitted users and Trains are a bigger concern for me personally because many communities have road dust and do not have a serious air quality problem. Also the fact that potentially a percentage of the road dust problem could be attributed directly to those permitted users. For example the hauling of chips and logs potentially introduces allot of additional dirt mud and road turbulence to the road surface. Don't get me wrong I am in no way saying the trucks should not be on the road. I am saying the permitted users play a significant role that may be beyond what is initially apparent in the overall problem. I'm not a hippie -not that there is anything wrong with that ;-)- I'm a realist.

As another said I'm a long term resident and will continue to be. I hope my kids can tell story's to theirs one day about how around 2011 the air started to significantly improve because the community worked together to end the antiquated handling of the air shed.

Have a great afternoon

Wood burning ain't the source?
I say get rid of all those dang stoves in the bowl, they're a nose sore!

I say give industry and the trains, (Hmmm, I thought trains were industry too) more of our tax dollars to clean up their pollution. Isn't that the Liberal way?

They are talking about industry like Lakeland mills (heat exchanger). The City wants to use it too. That will be a big boost to our poor air.