Air Quality Advisory Update

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 09:17 AM

Dust is visible along River Road, while in the background, a plume rises from the area of the pulp mills and refinery

An air quality advisory remains in effect, after being issued yesterday morning. At that time, levels of fine particulate exceeded target amounts (50).

This morning, the advisory was still in effect as levels of fine particulate were still above the target levels, sitting at 68 downtown, 55 at College Heights, and 82 at the BCR site.

The levels have been checked and the air quality advisory remains in effect at least for the next 24 hours.

Previous Story - Next Story

Email |

Print |

Facebook |

Twitter |

Digg |

Del.icio.us

Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 09:17 AM in News by 250 News

Return to Home

Comments

Posted by: Chadermando on March 29 2006 11:53 AM

Note 86 in the BCR site and they want to build homes down in that area purpetuating the bad air reputation of this city. IMO it makes no sense for anyone other than the land developer. The year I lived on the bench was the sickest I've ever been due to the air in Lower College Heights. I don't think that is the place to build more homes. Why not Cranbrookhill Crest for infill development? Different landowners?

Posted by: duffer on March 29 2006 4:59 PM

There is no city sewer on Cranbrook Hill is there?

Posted by: trueblue2 on March 29 2006 9:24 PM

Interesting comment about air quality in the BCR...which is the same air the people in the development proposed by David McWalter's company, just on the other side of the river. Is this the best place we can put new residents?
Then again, if the beetle wipes out the timber, and Canfor continues buying US and foreign interests, and the pulp mill no longer operates because there is no more fibre. Of course by then Canfor will be long gone, and the pulp mills will only be a memory.
But then, where are all those people in all these brand new neighbourhoods going to work? That is the really scary question that is just not being answered or addressed.

Posted by: owl on March 29 2006 10:07 PM

I would love to see a bit of investigative reporting on air quality by simply going to the Ministry responsible and asking them to provide a map of the City on which they would place the point source location of permitted air emissions for particulates and NOx.

I believe the picture for point sources will be maximum for the BCR area with the second largest in the CN yard area and the third largest in the Pulp Mill area.

I stand to be corrected on that because I have not looked at it for some time. BTW, if the CIty was to build a cogen plant downtown using wood pellets as the primary energy source, it would add to the bowl pollution even more.
http://www.epa.gov/oar/urbanair/nox/index.html

Posted by: owl on March 31 2006 8:48 AM

Here is a page which shows the kind of information which is available in Prince George's County Maryland about the permitted air pollutants put out by point sources.

Why can this not be done for Prince George and the rest of BC? Maybe if we evr get the countervailing duties back some of that money could be spent on getting more information to the population, in addition to cleaning up those sources.

http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/cap/rank-facilities-in-county.tcl?fips_state_code=24&fips_county_code=24033