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Is Fort Air Partnership “cooking the books?”

By Walter Schneider

The [1] home page of the Fort Air Partnership (FAP) states that,

The Fort Air Partnership exists to develop relevant, credible information that can be used to manage regional air quality, protect environmental health, and influence policy.

The home page of the FAP repeats the preceding statement in the third and last paragraph on that web page.  To that end, the FAP operates and maintains 40 passive and 8 continuous monitoring stations in the 4,500 square kilometers of [2] the FAP air-shed zone. (Note: That web page frequently does not work properly, it frequently fails to display correctly and often contains many non-functioning links.)

In examining [3] publicly accessible environmental monitoring station data produced by FAP through its Elk Island monitoring station on April 19, 2007, a download at noon showed extreme exceedences that had vanished from the data set that was downloaded 5 ½ hours later, at 17:30 hrs.  There is nothing very credible about treatment of data that now you see and now you don’t. ([4] Full Story)