By rdnewsNOW staff

Air quality

Air monitoring project held in Mountain View County

Jul 14, 2025 | 12:57 PM

The Parkland Airshed Management Zone (PAMZ) has completed an air monitoring project in the Eagle Hill and Eagle Valley areas of Mountain View County — about 45 kilometres southeast of Caroline.

This monitoring was carried out as part of a creative sentencing order issued by the Alberta Court of Justice following an infraction under the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act.

According to the Alberta Energy Regulator, Whitecap Resources Inc. based out of Calgary was found to commit the infraction and was penalized $80,000. This included a $2,000 fine and $78,000 allocated for projects that will have a demonstratable benefit to air quality.

The results of the project by PAMZ will be shared with residents at a future presentation for the Eagle Valley and Eagle Hill communities.

PAMZ was awarded the contract following a Request for Proposals and a mobile monitoring station was deployed from October 2024 to April 2025.

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During this period, no exceedances of Alberta Ambient Air Quality Objectives were recorded.

“This means essentially there were no air quality issues identified during that timeframe,” stated PAMZ Executive Director Kevin Warren. “The levels of monitored pollutants were similar to those measured at our Caroline Monitoring Site during the same period and consistent with the historical levels we’ve observed at other rural locations through our Ambient Air Monitoring Program.”

They found the air quality in both Eagle Valley and Eagle Hill was classified as very good.

“We observed extremely low ambient levels of sulphur gases, and the Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) registered a Low Health Risk 99.5 percent of the time,” he added.

This project was led by Mountain View County following a PAMZ Community Information Session held in Olds in July 2024.

The full report can be read here.