Air Quality Awareness Programme launches on Wednesday
By Ilhaam Hoosain
08 April 2008
The Cities Air Quality awareness programme will launch tomorrow to promote air quality management in Cape Town.
This programme is also important to inform the public what the City is doing to reduce air pollution.
“Air pollution is a key factor in the city’s overall health. Polluted air poses not only a serious health risk to our residence but mar’s the image of our city with its great natural beauty,” says Chairperson of the City’s Health Portfolio Committee.
Voss will also announce the launch of the City’s poster competition at the event.
As previously reported:
Free diesel testing for Cape Town
By Asanda Mankayi
03 April 2008
The City of Cape Town is going to have a three day suspension on the prosecution of vehicles owners with excessive diesel emission as part of the campaign to inform locals about air quality management.
Three sites offering diesel emission testing will be opened from the 9th to 11th April in Green Point, Bellville and Somerset West to allow people to come and test without fear of prosecution.
Chairperson of the City’s Health Portfolio Committee, Councillor James Vos, says the suspension will introduce the city’s campaign to publicise the implementation of its Air Quality Management Plan which is targeted at making Cape Town the ‘African city with clean air’.
The three vehicle testing sites will be in Western Boulevard, Green Point; Modderdam Road, opposite the university of the Western Cape; and on the N2, opposite the Somerset Mall.
Vos says that the city’s air quality management awareness campaign forms part of World Health Day which takes place on 7th April this year.
He added that there are 14 permanent air quality observing stations across the metropole. Each houses a complex and sophisticated series of air pollution monitors which supervise different pollutants in the air.
08 April 2008
The Cities Air Quality awareness programme will launch tomorrow to promote air quality management in Cape Town.
This programme is also important to inform the public what the City is doing to reduce air pollution.
“Air pollution is a key factor in the city’s overall health. Polluted air poses not only a serious health risk to our residence but mar’s the image of our city with its great natural beauty,” says Chairperson of the City’s Health Portfolio Committee.
Voss will also announce the launch of the City’s poster competition at the event.
As previously reported:
Free diesel testing for Cape Town
By Asanda Mankayi
03 April 2008
The City of Cape Town is going to have a three day suspension on the prosecution of vehicles owners with excessive diesel emission as part of the campaign to inform locals about air quality management.
Three sites offering diesel emission testing will be opened from the 9th to 11th April in Green Point, Bellville and Somerset West to allow people to come and test without fear of prosecution.
Chairperson of the City’s Health Portfolio Committee, Councillor James Vos, says the suspension will introduce the city’s campaign to publicise the implementation of its Air Quality Management Plan which is targeted at making Cape Town the ‘African city with clean air’.
The three vehicle testing sites will be in Western Boulevard, Green Point; Modderdam Road, opposite the university of the Western Cape; and on the N2, opposite the Somerset Mall.
Vos says that the city’s air quality management awareness campaign forms part of World Health Day which takes place on 7th April this year.
He added that there are 14 permanent air quality observing stations across the metropole. Each houses a complex and sophisticated series of air pollution monitors which supervise different pollutants in the air.
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