#polllution — Public Fediverse posts

🛢️ Due to a dispute between my husband and I came across this article and thought I would pass it along to anyone who might be interested in the history of the Alberta Tars Sands, the dirtiest most polluting oil on the planet, as told by "The Alberta Energy Sector"

So take it in with a grain of salt, or as in this case, a few drops of lubricating oil ...

#Alberta #TarSands
#Canada #Polllution #Energy

https://www.oilsandsmagazine.com/technical/history-of-alberta-oil-sands-development

Lymington Iron Works on the Tyne, by Thomas Allom, c.1835 — a powerful reminder of the early days of #industrialisation — and environmental #polllution on a vast scale https://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/allom/2.html

Make Church Street a Clean Air Zone
Low emissions zones are a very quick way to bring down pollution ( NO2 ,PM2.5) and avoid cognitive decline and cancers from combustion traffic.

"Higher emissions from industry and residential combustion, as well as biofuel, coal, and oil and natural gas combustion, were associated with worse language scores."
https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/80/5/glaf060/8082041?login=false

Clean air zones
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/driving-in-a-clean-air-zone
#FossilFuels #vehicles #combustion #cars #traffic #polllution #contaminants #regulation #LEZ #ULEZ #cognition #cancer #Bellingen #ChurchStreet #cafes #alfreco #eateries #CleanAir #PublicHealth #health #harm