http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Canadian+quality+among+best+world/5462860/story.html Yet it will still affect health of thousands BY CARMEN CHAI, POSTMEDIA NEWSSEPTEMBER 27, 2011 If you thought it was a pain to drive in Montreal or Toronto, think again. According to results of a survey, it’s not nearly as frustrating as driving in Mexico City or Beijing. In its fourth annual study, IBM [...]
Posts on ‘September 29th, 2011’
Tackling the global clean air challenge
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2011/air_pollution_20110926/en/index.html
Zhuhai – Hong Kong Airport Joint Venture
http://www.hongkongairport.com/eng/media/press-releases/pr_909.html Zhuhai – Hong Kong Airport Joint Venture formed 23 November 2007) – Hong Kong-Zhuhai Airport Management Co. Ltd. (HKZAM), the joint venture between the Zhuhai Municipal People’s Government and Airport Authority Hong Kong that manages Zhuhai Airport, today celebrated its first anniversary with a ceremony officiated by Central and Southern Regional Administration of Civil [...]
Hong Kong PM2.5 levels
USA EPA The annual standard for PM2.5 is met whenever the 3 year average of the annual mean PM2.5 concentrations for designated monitoring sites in an area is less than or equal to 15.0 µg/m3. http://www.epa.gov/pmdesignations/faq.htm Hong Kong PM2.5 levels (note they deliberately have no monitoring station in Mongkok and Causeway Bay) attached (source HK EPD) [...]
Appeal Court overturns bridge ruling
www.rthk.org.hk The Court of Appeal has overturned a lower court judgment blocking construction of the Hong Kong section of the bridge linking Hong Kong with Macau and Zhuhai. The lower court had ruled that the government failed to conduct a proper environmental impact assessment of the multi-billion dollar project because it failed to project air [...]