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Sarnia, en Ontario, est situé dans la « vallée chimique », soit l’endroit avec la concentration la plus élevée d’usines pétrochimiques au Canada. La Première Nation Aamjiwnaang s’en inquiète depuis longtemps.
Des usines polluantes à proximité d’un quartier peuplé par des minorités racisées. Un manque d’eau potable dans les communautés autochtones. Des taux de pollution de l’air élevés dans une communauté des Premières Nations. Ce n’est pas le hasard. C’est du racisme environnemental, clament les experts. Une loi canadienne pour tenter de remédier à la problématique pourrait bientôt voir le jour.
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UBC experts team up to tackle air pollution with network of sensors
Air pollution is an urgent problem linked to as many as nine million deaths per year worldwide and 14,000 annually in Canada, primarily from related heart and lung diseases. A group of UBC experts are determined to mount a rapid response through research.
The team, known as Rapid Air Improvement Network (RAIN), is planning to use a network of air quality sensors, mobile monitoring and sophisticated analysis instruments to locate and study air pollutants with the detail needed to support fast, effective interventions.
They plan to install an air quality sensor network on the UBC campus this summer, to leverage the university’s traffic, population and operations data which can be quickly tuned to improve air quality. The project will also outfit a mobile monitoring station that will be used further afield, including communities affected by wildfires and other areas in urgent need.
March 1st 2021
Brefny Raney and her daughter Jessa play in a park near their home in west Trail. The smelter stacks can be seen in the background. Photo by Louis Bockner
For more than 30 years, a small city nestled in the mountains of British Columbia’s West Kootenay region has been working to clean up lead pollution that spewed from the local smelter for almost a century.
Teck Metals has upgraded the smelter, and that led to major improvements, but blood lead levels among local kids are still four times higher than the Canadian average, and internal government documents obtained by