Northwest Territories Air Quality Report, 1999/2000 (GNWT, June 2001)
The 1999/2000 Northwest Territories Air Quality Report presents air quality monitoring data collected by RWED from monitoring stations in Yellowknife, Snare Rapids, and Fort Liard, tracking parameters including dust, arsenic, lead, SO2, ozone, and acid precipitation. The report documents a significant improvement in air quality following the closure of Giant Mine in October 1999, with substantial decreases in SO2 and arsenic levels.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development (RWED), Environment Canada, NWT Power Corporation, Giant Yellowknife Gold Mine, Government of the Northwest Territories
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Snare Rapids, Fort Liard, N'dilo, Yukon, Nunavut, Eastern Canada
- Parameters
- dust, total suspended particulate (TSP), lead, arsenic, sulphate, sulphur dioxide (SO2), hydrogen sulphide (H2S), ground level ozone (O3), acid precipitation, PM2.5, PM10, air quality
- Pages
- 9
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