I went out driving around my 'usual' birding route very early this morning. See the brown smudge across the sky?
Where did it come from?
The coal-burning power plants? Well, not the Shand plant - the light wind was from the wrong direction. Boundary plant? Maybe, of course we have been assured all impurities have been captured and removed by the scrubbers on the stacks.... [Yeah, right]
Can't be dust in the air. We had a super-soaker of a rain last night.
We do have an oil boom going on - lots of drilling, flares burning off gas and all other related activity. Is that the cause?
Whatever it is, it disgusts me. I live in SE Saskatchewan. There is no body here, so to speak. We practically define the phrase 'wide open space'. We should not have polluted air. But, we do.
Where did it come from?
The coal-burning power plants? Well, not the Shand plant - the light wind was from the wrong direction. Boundary plant? Maybe, of course we have been assured all impurities have been captured and removed by the scrubbers on the stacks.... [Yeah, right]
Can't be dust in the air. We had a super-soaker of a rain last night.
We do have an oil boom going on - lots of drilling, flares burning off gas and all other related activity. Is that the cause?
Whatever it is, it disgusts me. I live in SE Saskatchewan. There is no body here, so to speak. We practically define the phrase 'wide open space'. We should not have polluted air. But, we do.
Article in the Globe and Mail today on Estevan! (newcomer related article) Plus, blurb on SK and the tornado season.
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