Study Links Air Pollution

Another AIR Quality study was carried out by a country that at least gives a damn when it comes to communities and their well being.The latest findings, " Though the evidence is mixed at this point, an association was found between cardiovascular admissions and course particulate matter.So it's believed at this point it's important to update this study & others like it using continual monitoring data" collected by government pollution sensors across the USA.

There have been others that have previously identified the dangers to hearts and lungs posed by fine airborne particles,which are smaller than 2.5 microns across or 100 times tinier than the width of a human hair.Small particles released from vehicle exhaust emissions and other sources can penetrate deeper into the lungs,if they become trapped it raises the risk of illness that include emphysema,lung cancer and heart disease.

Course particles that range between 2.5 microns and 10 in diameter tend to lodge in the upper respiratory tract when inhaled.Researchers examined 7 years worth of air pollution data from 108 counties across the US and compared it with 3.7 million hospitalised for cardiovascular disease & 1.4 million for respiratory illnesses.They correlated emergency visits to days when monitoring stations detected heavy levels of large particle pollution,which over a one year period equated to 1,800 with cardio disease in study areas.

Seeing as the Australian government were prepared to place industry so close to built up areas, with prevailing winds along with odours or inversion layers, just what is in the AIR we breath what are we being exposed to on a daily basis? Why isn't the necessary independent monitoring being done, how much longer are we to be treated like mushrooms ?The government receive $10-12 billion from the Kwinana strip alone, yet the same excuse is regularly used,there isn't the funds or qualified people.

To think a multi national company came out warning government if the Carbon price were set too high, regional areas could face big job losses in curtailing the nations greenhouse emissions.
The technology is there so it should be a condition of their license , if their not prepared to update emissions technology as it eventuate, no license to operate .