Air Advisory Cancelled

Sunday, February 04, 2007 01:31 PM

The Ministry of Environment has cancelled the Air Quality Advisory for the city.

Just over one month into 2007, and we've already seen our second advisory of the new year. The first one occurred at the end of January and ran from Friday the 26, until the morning of Monday the 29th.

This second caution began this past Wednesday afternoon.

The Ministry says the weak weather disturbance that moved through the region last night made a difference. As of late yesterday afternoon 24-hour levels of fine particulate matter still exceeded the air quality objective of 50, but hourly levels had dropped and were expected to remain low.

Road dust was seen as a main contributing factor during this latest advisory. Meteorologist, Dennis Fudge, had said without precipitation to keep the dust down, it was becoming trapped in the airshed due to a stagnant weather system.

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Posted on Sunday, February 04, 2007 01:31 PM in Health by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: Chester on February 4 2007 8:23 PM

Well Mr. Fudge, have you taken the time or the interest to have a look at the Refinery lately? Why don't you take a walk to work in the mornings and see what it is like to cough and wheeze your way into the bowl? Dust my ass. There is not enough traffic to even raise the dust enough to cause a problem when I walk to work. Chester

Posted by: owl on February 5 2007 9:31 AM

I see that the fact that an air advisory is cancelled is no longer news.

Posted by: owl on February 5 2007 9:53 AM

"Road dust was seen as a main contributing factor."

How many people read for content?

Notice the use of the word "a" in front of main rather than "the".

So, if it is thought that industry was 40%, road dust was 40%, and other sources was 20%, then that is a correct statement. However, it would also be an incomplete or "spin" statement. A statement without spin should then have said "industry and road dust were the main contributing sources."