Air Quality Resources

Here are some helpful resources on air quality, including materials from meetings of the Kamloops Air Quality Roundtable.

Kamloops Air Quality Roundtable Resources

Roundtable Terms of Reference

• Terms of Reference (October 2023)

Meeting Summaries

• May 3, 2023 Meeting Summary
• November 9, 2022 Meeting Summary
• January 26, 2022 Meeting Summary
• October 5, 2021 Meeting Summary
• May 20, 2021 Meeting Summary
• January 27, 2021 Meeting Summary
• September 28, 2020 Meeting Summary
• May 11, 2020 Meeting Summary
• January 28, 2020 Meeting Summary
• September 23, 2019 Meeting Summary
• April 30, 2019 Meeting Summary
• February 28, 2019 Meeting Summary
• October 29, 2018 Meeting Summary
• July 18, 2018 Meeting Summary
• January 11, 2018 Meeting Summary
• October 5, 2017 Meeting Summary
• April 12, 2017 Meeting Summary
• December 5, 2016 Meeting Summary
• September 23, 2016 Meeting Summary
• May 2, 2016 Meeting Summary
• February 22, 2016 Meeting Summary
• October 20, 2015 Meeting Summary
• August 25, 2015 Meeting Summary
• June 8, 2015 Meeting Summary

Kamloops Airshed Management Plan

City of Kamloops Airshed Management Plan

Kamloops Community Climate Action Plan

City of Kamloops Community Climate Action Plan

Presentations to KAQR

Presentation from the January 26, 2022 meeting:

• Carbon Management: Attaining regional solutions

Presentations from the May 20, 2021 meeting:

• TRU Campus Electrification and District Energy System
• City of Kamloops Community Climate Action Plan

Presentation from the May 11, 2020 meeting:

• Low-Cost Air Quality Monitors - Dr. Peter Jackson, UNBC

Presentation from the September 23, 2019 meeting:

• Sustainability Services Update - City of Kamloops

Presentation from the February 28, 2019 meeting:

• Levoglucosan Studies in Kamloops - Province of BC

Material from the October 29, 2018 meeting:

• Summary of PM2.5 concentrations and AQHI values since 1998 in Kamloops (Updated) - Province of BC

Presentations and material from the July 18, 2018 meeting:

• 2017 Air Quality Measurements in Kamloop - Province of BC
• Handout to accompany 2017 update to Kamloops Air Quality Roundtable
• Smoky Skies Bulletin - July 12, 2018 - Province of BC, First Nations Health Authority and Interior Health
• The Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) and the AQHI-Plus - Province of bC

Presentations from the October 5, 2017 meeting:

• Wood Stove Survey Results & Kamloops Wood Stove Exchange Program - City of Kamloops
• Regulation of Air Discharges in BC ... or Who Does What - Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy

Presentation from the April 7, 2017 meeting:

• A Study of Forest Fibre Currently Being Burned in Conventional Timber Harvest Operations

Presentations from September 23, 2016 meeting:

• City of Kamloops Corporate and Community Idling Reduction
• District Heating at TRU

Presentations and handouts from the December 5 2016 meeting:

• TRS (Total Reduced Sulphur) Trends
• Summary of particulate matter statistics for the first year of
  measurements at the Kamloops Upper Aberdeen air station
• Domtar Kamloops
• Wood Smoke and the Atmospheric Commons

Other Air Quality Resources

Air Quality and Health Impacts

FireSmoke Canada: forecasts hourly ground-level concentrations of smoke particles (PM 2.5) from wildfires

BC Lung Association webinars

City of Kamloops: Wood Burning Information

Health Link BC: Particulate matter and outdoor air pollution | Outdoor Air Quality (S02) | Indoor Air Quality

Air Quality Health Index: This public information tool, available through Environment Canada, measures air quality in relation to health risk on a scale of 1 to 10. The higher the number, the greater the health risk associated with air quality. The tool is a way for Canadians, particularly at-risk populations, protect their health by planning the extent of their exposure to the outdoors.

Reports

The 2023 BC State of the Air Report is available from BC Lung. Read it today!

Air Quality in Kamloops - compiled September 2019 - BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy

Webinar Series

UBC Occupational and Environmental Health webinar series

Websites

BC Air Quality

BC Lung Association

Natural Resources Canada: Idle-Free Zone

City of Kamloops: Air Quality