Sampling for Formaldehyde Alone to Come to An End
By 250 News
Wednesday, March 09, 2011 03:59 AM
Prince George, B.C.- After 15 different samples having been taken, the Ministry of the Environment says it is now confident that the formaldehyde readings recorded in the summer of 2008 were an error.
“We will soon be discontinuing sampling” says Dean Cherkas, Regional Manager of the Environmental Protection Division Ministry of Environment. Cherkas says the Millar Addition residents and People’s Action Committee for Healthy Air agree with the Ministry of Environment that sufficient sampling has occurred (15 actual samples taken in 2010) to establish that the 2008 readings were in error and that the subsequent samples that were taken in 2010 have all shown either nil or results well below the provincial daily objective level.
Since last spring, the MoE has been carrying out special sampling during air quality advisories, that specific sampling process will come to an end. That doesn’t mean formaldehyde is off the Ministry of Environment’s radar “ As part of our on-going monitoring program we have incorporated Volatile Organic Compound(VOC) sampling for the Millar Addition and have requested Water and Air Monitoring funding for an expanded VOC sampling for the coming fiscal year.”
Cherkas says to make sampling more immediate, neighbourhood residents were trained in February as to the methodology required by Environment Canada. “Samples will be taken when and where the residents are smelling strong odours that also cause health effects” says Cherkas who adds the benefit of having neighbourhood residents collecting the samples is that the response time is reduced, and they will have the necessary equipment on-site.
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Posted by: Slim2229 on March 9 2011 3:53 PM
To all the industrial operations of our community which makes it possible for our community to survive with higher than average income, We the city and MoE need to apologies for the wrongful image of posing your company as wreckless polluters.
To all the tax paying citizens of Prince George, We apologize for our knee jerk reaction of hiring a " Air Fairy " in the aftermath of inaccurate reporting by special interest groups.
sincerely
Danny Boy