Ensuring Clean Air
Ensuring Clean Air

Author: British Columbia. Ministry of Environment, Lands, and Parks

Publisher: Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 64

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During 1992, a new clean air strategy will be developed by the B.C. government. This discussion paper provides information on atmospheric issues, giving a summary of stakeholder views, including standards and regulations, jurisdictions and decision making, economic issues and instruments, energy transportation, and forestry products. It describes the proposed process, including organization, communication, information gathering, targeted consultation, a draft strategy, public consultation, and a provincial workshop and discusses the anticipated outcome for both the short- and long-term, including the management of smoke, greenhouse gases, ozone smog, ozone layer, and regional air quality.

The State of Canada's Environment
The State of Canada's Environment

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Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 752

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Second national state-of-the-environment report, addressing the questions of what is happening in Canada's environment, why it is happening, why it is significant, and what Canadians are doing about it. The report is divided into five parts, dealing with perceptions of the environment and the dangers inherent in our tendency to look at the world in terms of human economic models; exploring the state of particular environmental components and the major sectors of human activity; describing six regional case studies; addressing six important environmental issues; and discussing the concept of sustainable development and its implications for Canada's future.

GVRD Air Management Plan, Stage 1
GVRD Air Management Plan, Stage 1

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Published: 1989

Total Pages: 209

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The first appendix summarizes the climatology of the Lower Fraser Valley, especially the GVRD, with emphasis on those aspects affecting air pollution potential. First it considers the general climatological context of the region then the special local or mesoscale characteristics that lead to within-region climatic variability. The historical and current ambient air quality and the likely future air quality in the GVRD are discussed in the second appendix. In addition to the data collected routinely in the monitoring network, air quality information derived from special studies is included in this summary. The third appendix compares air quality regulations which are applicable to GVRD with corresponding regulations for other Canadian jurisdictions, as well as selected U.S. jurisdictions. In the fourth and final appendix, various modelling aspects of the Air Management Plan are addressed. Since one of the most important current air quality issues in the GVRD is related to photochemical oxidants, the role of photochemical models in the Air Management Plan has received the greatest emphasis. Other modelling requirements are addressed also. A review of more complex photochemical models is presented, and recommendations for the use of such models in the GVRD are discussed.