Eye on air pollution
The Canterbury Regional; Planning Authority will continue to monitor air pollution in the Christcurch metropolitan area this year at a cost of about $6200. “It would be regrettable to have a break in the continuity of the record,” said a (member of the authority, Sir Terence McCombs, j It would be interesting to see whether reduced use ofi oil fuels would be accompanied by less air pollution and what the effects would be of a likely increase in the use of coal, he said. There i
Ijwas also more concern about lead pollutants found along roadsides. The authority’s chairman (Mr D. B. Rich) raised the question of suspending the ’ monitoring for a year, or perhaps indefinitely. but agreed that it was an interesting time to be measuring pollution under new conditions. Part of his concern was that “progress toward any control is very slow indeed,” he told the authority’s executive.
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Press, 20 April 1979, Page 10
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154Eye on air pollution Press, 20 April 1979, Page 10
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