3 hours agoAgency for Environmental Protection chief speaks after alarming level of pollution in Pristina
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Citizens of Pristina, like any other night, face high air pollution tonight. Air quality in the Kosovo capital has reached an alarming level, exceeding all recommended standards. Ilir Morina, chief chief of the Kosovo Environment Protection Agency, has shown about the continuing pollution [...]
Citizens of Pristina, like any other night, face high air pollution tonight. Air quality in the Kosovo capital has reached an alarming level, exceeding all recommended standards. Ilir Morina, chief chief of the Kosovo Environment Protection Agency, has indicated that pollution will continue throughout the year if competent organs fail to undertake anything. He says there is a plan for protection, but according to him, the response is very small.
The Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning has drafted an action plan for all central and local institutions to take measures, but their response is small”, he says.
But, in all of this, he says the air in Pristina will continue to be polluted, as he holds that competent organs are taking measures.
The “Nuture will continue throughout the year and in the coming years if the municipality and its organs do not reshuffle urban transport. Determination in areas where vehicles cannot be parked or can't be entered into the city of”, he says.
Morina hopes the air can be fixed tomorrow. But it shows that last night was a big night.
We're expecting a pollution landing from tomorrow because last night was the most awful night of”, he said.
Morina, on air pollution, has also accused the Ministry of Infrastructure of failing to implement the regulation for technical control.
“... conviction is the Ministry of Infrastructure for failing to implement the regulation for technical control, which prohibits vehicles that do not meet the conditions and discharges more gases than the maximum values allowed”.
He has suggested that air pollution in Pristina is occurring as a consequence of the fixed resources of polluting and moving.
“In the static resources polluting Pristina's air are Kosovo thermal power plants, especially TCBs, then economic and industrial operators in the city and the district burning coal-burning wool, oil, other oil. There's a lot of self-servation that misuses the burning of tissues that pollute. Over 30 %s of pollution during the winter comes from the chimneys of individual and collective homes, including commercial ones using coal, slippers, but wood. And some 30% of pollution sources consider them to be the resources and movement, which are buses, trucks, combinations, and car”.
But that is the case, even though the resources are the same daily.
The biggest problem is when weather conditions adapt to pollution, which means that two nights but tonight the speed of the wind is near zero, air moisture is too high mixed with fog and smoke that the attachment has been proud of the smug situation. And according to the AQI scale (air index quality) when the particles of PM10 and PM2,5 reach air concentration over 300 and last night was over 400 for two hours then it's a dangerous situation and this has been the reason for citizens' alarm last night and tonight from us as an Environmental Agency and the Public Health Institute”, Morina told Express.
