Air Quality

• Researchers to explore ‘rotten egg smell’ complaints in Hamilton’s lower end

  A team from the Centre for Urban Environments at the University of Toronto will begin setting up monitoring stations across the city to study hydrogen sulphide gas.

  Environment

  Apr 11
  
• Sanimax strikes deal with government to put end to foul smells in Rivière-des-Prairies

  Residents living in the area close to the plant say they will soon be able to have their summers outside without whiffs of fetid air pushing them back indoors.

  Canada

  Mar 19
  
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• Wildfire smoke means Canada’s air quality worse than U.S., according to report

  Canada's air pollution levels last year were worse than those in the United States for the first time since an air-quality firm started publishing its assessments in 2018.

  Health

  Mar 19
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• Environment Canada issues air quality statement for Calgary

  Environment Canada issued a special air quality statement for the City of Calgary Sunday morning with stagnant weather leading to elevated air pollution levels.

  Weather

  Jan 21
• Air pollution could send Americans indoors 142 more days per year by 2100: Ontario study

  Researchers from schools on both sides of the border, are currently working on a similar study for Canada and seeing similar results so far.

  Canada

  Jan 18
• BWXT Peterborough beryllium emissions pose no health risk: nuclear commission

  In the summer of 2023, air quality samples were conducted in the schoolyard of nearby Prince of Wales Public School and at two sites adjacent to the BWXT facility.

  Environment

  Jan 11
• How New Delhi is restricting cars on its streets to fight pollution

  The policy, known as the ‘Odd-Even’ scheme, is an emergency measure that the Delhi government puts in place when air quality levels plummet to dangerous levels.

  Environment

  Nov 6, 2023
• Hamilton to seek veto over landfill applications amid odour issue in Stoney Creek

  Odours from a Green Mountain Road landfill has a Hamilton councillor seeking approval power when expansion applications come before the province.

  Environment

  Oct 25, 2023
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• Hamilton exploring third-party air monitoring near waste facility

  Ministry of Environment air monitoring near the GFL facility in Stoney Creek continues to show no serious health hazards from detection of hydrogen sulphide.

  Health

  Oct 20, 2023
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• Moncton residents raising concerns about American Iron and Metal scrapyard

  "It's terrible, it's dangerous. Whoever gave them permission to do this is definitely in the wrong," said one Moncton resident who lives in close proximity to the scrapyard.

  Environment

  Oct 15, 2023