Tag: Sulfur dioxide

  • Helsinki monitors 10 pollutants to improve air quality monitoring

    Helsinki monitors 10 pollutants to improve air quality monitoring

    Monitoring is carried out at 11 different stations strategically located in different environments across the region. This placement ensures comprehensive data collection from heavily trafficked areas to residential areas where wood burning is common. In addition to these fixed stations, HSY also uses smaller, more mobile measuring devices to collect data on certain pollutants, such…

  • Increased concentrations of sulfur dioxide have been recorded in Grindavik

    Increased concentrations of sulfur dioxide have been recorded in Grindavik

    From the north, 700 tremors were recorded above the magma tunnel, the largest with a magnitude of 3.1 in Hagafell. Earlier, at 9:09 p.m., an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 occurred in Kleifarvatn. However, the vast majority of tremors occur in the magma tunnel, most of them are small and occur at a depth…

  • Nornickel sets up air quality control in Norilsk

    Nornickel sets up air quality control in Norilsk

    The company’s environmental program has reached several milestones in the Kola division, while the delivery of the breakdown program in the Norilsk division is on track and Nornickel has managed to increase its capital expenditures this year, which are expected to grow by more than 50% from 2010 onwards. 2020, its top director said during…

  • Gaseous pollution from Vogar to Borgarfjörður

    Gaseous pollution from Vogar to Borgarfjörður

    According to information from the Icelandic Meteorological Institute, it is possible that gaseous pollution from the Fagradalsfjall eruption will spread today from Vogar towards Borgarfjörður and Borgarnes. Due to the southerly winds forecast today, pollution is likely to be greatest over Vogar later in the day. Residents of Borgarnes and Borgarfjörður may also experience sulfur…

  • Sulfur emissions crossed the border – LKAB reported to the police

    Sulfur emissions crossed the border – LKAB reported to the police

    The County Administrative Board reports charges to LKAB for unauthorized environmental activities after the company emitted too much sulfur dioxide from the pellet plants in Kiruna in 2019. Emissions of the gas sulfur dioxide contribute to the acidification of soil and water. Anders Lindberg, press manager at LKAB, states that emissions decreased to the right…

  • Important message to the public in Björklinge, Skuttunge, Läby in Uppsala municipality, Uppsala county.

    Important message to the public in Björklinge, Skuttunge, Läby in Uppsala municipality, Uppsala county.

    The biggest threat right now is the toxic sulfur dioxide that is formed in connection with the volcanic eruption. The toxic gas affects the respiratory tract and lungs. On the Reykjanes peninsula, where the volcanic eruption is taking place, there has been no eruption since the 13th century. The latest eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula…

  • Important message to the public in Björklinge, Skuttunge, Läby in Uppsala municipality, Uppsala county.

    Important message to the public in Björklinge, Skuttunge, Läby in Uppsala municipality, Uppsala county.

    The biggest threat right now is the toxic sulfur dioxide that is formed in connection with the volcanic eruption. The toxic gas affects the respiratory tract and lungs. On the Reykjanes peninsula, where the volcanic eruption is taking place, there has been no eruption since the 13th century. The latest eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula…

  • Parts of Säffle are cordoned off after a gas leak

    Parts of Säffle are cordoned off after a gas leak

    A gas emission of sulfur dioxide has occurred on Nordic Paper at Forskningsvägen in Säffle after a break in a pipe system. The rescue service assesses that right now there is no risk to the public as long as they are outside the roadblocks. “Our assessment right now is that the discharge has stopped or…