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Community Action Plan for Clean Air

Community Action Plan for Clean Air. If you can breathe, you can make a difference. Introduction. What is the BVLDAMP? Process based on consensus, science and local knowledge

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Community Action Plan for Clean Air

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  1. Community Action Plan for Clean Air

  2. If you can breathe, you can make a difference Introduction • What is the BVLDAMP? • Process based on consensus, science and local knowledge • Improve overall quality of life by balancing air quality (health and visibility impacts), with social and economic needs • Stakeholder driven: 50 plus members plus Update list • Local and Provincial governments • Industry • Small business • Concerned citizens • Public interest groups

  3. If you can breathe, you can make a difference Why airshed management planning? • Interior communities in BC typically have air quality problems due to: • Emissions • Topography • Weather Patterns • Fine particulates are issue in BVLD • Smoke • Road dust

  4. We want less of this….more of that.

  5. PM 10 PM 2.5 Time If you can breathe, you can make a difference Overall plan goal: understand the airshed and reduce particulates

  6. If you can breathe, you can make a difference Health and Environment • Everyone affected, not just sensitive individuals • Cardiovascular effects • Respiratory effects • Navigational hazards for charter flight operators • Aesthetic visibility impacts

  7. If you can breathe, you can make a difference Economics • Looking for: • Low-cost alternatives • Diversification through value-added solutions • Increase quality of life for all residents • Links with: • Tourism • Small business • Industry

  8. PM 10 PM 2.5 If you can breathe, you can make a difference Time Episode Management to support Economic Development Capacity to absorb emissions + baseline

  9. Official Community Plans Land Use Planning Waste Mgmt Planning Air Quality Climate Change Energy Planning If you can breathe, you can make a difference Think Globally, Act Locally

  10. If you can breathe, you can make a difference Science and Local Knowledge • Plan participants identified major and minor sources for airshed-major sources: • Beehive burners • Forestry burning • Agricultural/land development/small sawmill burning • Residential wood heating • Backyard burning • Road dust • Airshed and source-specific goals, indicators and strategies were developed

  11. If you can breathe, you can make a difference Technical support from WLAP • Airshed specific micro-emission inventories being developed for major sources • Meteorological modelling underway for 2001 and 2002 • Dispersion modelling to begin mid-late summer 2004 • Updated Air Quality Assessment to begin mid-late summer 2004

  12. If you can breathe, you can make a difference Case study-Beehive Burners • Tier 1 • Canfor, Houston Forest Products, Pacific Inland Resources • Numerous upgrades to operation to reduce emissions • Voluntary and required shut downs during air quality episodes • Tier 2 • Cheslatta Forest Products, Babine Forest Products, Decker Lake Forest Products, Carnaby (not operating) • Goals-reduce or eliminate operating beehive burners • Indicators-# burners operating and # operating days • Strategies-co-generation or other value-added alternatives

  13. If you can breathe, you can make a difference Case study-Forestry Burning • Required to reduce fire and insect hazard abatement • Limited mainly to fall and spring • Seasons with moderate # of good venting days • Goals-reduce or eliminate air quality episodes due to forestry burning • Indicators-% potential episode days in fall and spring • Strategies • Reduce # piles needing to be burnt • Reduce emissions from piles that must be burnt • Education • Coordination of burning to prevent overload/visibility hazards

  14. If you can breathe, you can make a difference Case Study-Residential Wood Heating • Emissions can cause significant local impacts in neighbourhoods and communities • Goals-reduce or eliminate air quality episodes due to residential wood heating • Indicators-% epidsode days during fall, winter, spring • # non-emissions certified appliance in BVLD • Strategies-Woodstove change out program • Public education • Woodstove bylaws • Promotion of alternatives for home heating

  15. If you can breathe, you can make a difference 5 Year Implementation Plan • BVLD Airshed Management Plan Society with WLAP as technical arm • Annual and semi-annual meetings of working groups based on milestones for each source • Continuous review and updating of plan with annual reports every September • Continuous improvement of science • Monitoring program in every community

  16. If you can breathe, you can make a difference Role of Local Government • Endorse the Plan (no liability) • Assist with implementation through participation and partnership: • Annual Plan review (September) • Plan implementation **active participation in BVLD Airshed Management Plan Society • Public education and information (2-ways: toolkits for gov’t and promotion of programs and workshops) • OCP links with Air Quality via CWG (define and answer questions related to compatibility of industry operations and location on Plan milestones)

  17. Real Opportunities Partnerships Built If you can breathe, you can make a difference! Strategies Developed Ready to Implement

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