Air Quality
With the daily publication of EnviroAb, I thought I would add a weekly commentary on some of the topics I found of most interest/value. The relative roles and responsibilities of the federal and provincial committees reviewing oilsands monitoring was frequently discussed this week with questions of overlap, duplication etc. The intent to establish aprovincial committee [...]
(Photo: Elbow River, Calgary, Alberta) I am certainly no expert but I am interested in trying to understand the emissions of carbon from various energy sources. A report from CERA calculates the ‘well to wheels’ emissions with Canada’s oil sands as the energy source. (Well to wheels is defined as: The oil extraction, processing, distribution, through [...]
I attended the Alberta Capital Airshed Alliance (ACAA) AGM this past week. I learned that the emmissions of pollutants ( NOx, SO2, PM2.5) are roughly emmitting by these sectors in our region: 50% – transportation (cars, trucks, buses, etc.) 25% – large industrial sources (such as refineries, etc.) 25% – other sources – med and [...]
On March 19th, the Suncor refinery in east Edmonton recorded a upset in their operating that resulted in plumes of smoke. Yesterday, the Sherwood Park News reported that the Province of Alberta was awaiting further technical details from Suncor. The paper specifically reports that: At the time of the first sample there was a 0.278 [...]
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