Dear All,
Now TV Live wishes to interview Clear the Air on Air Pollution and recent Hot weather, another guest from WWF.
Tomorrow Morning Live from 10:30am to 11:00am
Any particular issue you want me to bring up during the interview?
Regards
Edwin Town
Vice Chair, Clear the Air
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| Lai Ying-kit SCMP 2:34pm, Aug 02, 2012 |
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When the index hits 200, children and the elderly are advised to avoid physical exertion and outdoor activities. The reading at Causeway Bay reached 182 on Thursday morning before falling to the 150s in the lead-up to noon. The air pollution indices in the three districts on Thursday morning were higher than their average levels on Wednesday, when the dirty air began to accumulate. An index above 100 is classified as a “very high” level when people with heart and respiratory conditions are advised to avoid areas with heavy traffic. Three other districts – Kwun Tong, Sham Shui Po and Kwai Chung – also posted “high to very high” levels of air pollution on Thursday morning. The Environmental Protection Department said pollutants were trapped as the wind was light in Hong Kong under the effect of Typhoon Saola. |
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Clear the Air says:
The typhoon in Taiwan has caused still air in Hong Kong.
With no wind to blow the smog away , bright sunshine is acting on the photo chemical smog from the engine combusted roadside NOx and so ozone is formed.
This shows conclusively that our pollution source is local and the NOx from old diesels and buses and ozone remain trapped in our developer-friendly overbuilt urban canyons.
Furthermore 31% of our particulates, 27% of Nox and 23% of SOx comes from ocean SHIPPING vessels in and passing by our waters and burning high sulphur bunker fuels (2.75-4%) whilst we force the use of ULSD in street vehicles.
The USA has a 200 mile Emissions Control Area (ECA) for shipping which enforces the use of low sulphur diesel once entering the ECA.
So why not here too ?
Lest we forget : Yet another omission that Edward Yau must answer for is a lack of follow-up with China to put this ECA in place. He was too busy travelling the world 59 times in his 60 months term to concentrate on his supposed job here at the so-called Environment Bureau.
From: Professor Anthony Hedley
Sent: 26 July, 2012 16:38
To: Clear the Air
Subject: Re: SCMP Laisee
Things are beginning to move on the NO2 issue in WHO. The medical literature is now replete with studies on health impacts,especially in Maternal and Child Health,with diverse and serious outcomes (leukaemia,congenital heart disease,growth retardation in pregnancy) at levels considerably lower than the
current WHO annual limit. We have also just shown that compliance with the present short term limit (1 hour=200ug/m3) will not achieve the annual limit of 40 in a high pollution environment like HK.So there is a lot to do here.
T
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:36 PM, CTA > wrote: SCMP Laisee
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