PAMZ bid accepted by Alberta Energy Regulator
The Parkland Airshed Management Zone Association (PAMZ) will be launching an air quality monitoring project within Mountain View County following a successful bid with the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER).
According to PAMZ officials, the funds were made accessible through a creative sentencing after an area organization was recently ordered to pay an $80,000 penalty after release of hydrogen sulphide from a gas well in 2021. While $2,000 was provided to the Alberta Court of Justice as a fine, PAMZ says the remaining $78,000 was put towards a creative sentencing project, overseen by the AER on behalf of the Alberta Court of Justice.
PAMZ says the project had to occur within Mountain View County boundaries, or within immediately adjacent counties, and demonstrate benefits to air quality, promote pollution prevention and management, and/ or have demonstratable benefits to first responders, hospitals, local authorities, or educational establishments.
PAMZ says it submitted a bid to either target a specific air quality issue identified in the Mountain View County region or collect data to enhance the organization’s knowledge base on the air quality in the area using its Dr. Martha Kostuch portable Air Quality Monitoring Station.