Acid Rain Monitoring Station Set Up At Cluff Lake

Acid Rain Monitoring Station Set Up At Cluff Lake

Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 14:32

Environment Canada is trying to get a better handle on the amount of acid rain affecting northern Saskatchewan.

Pirette Blanchard is a manager with the department’s air and precipitation monitoring wing.

She says they have established four temporary monitoring stations in the Prairies, and one of them is at the Cluff Lake mine site.

Blanchard says the arrangement is only a temporary solution, though, as AREVA won’t be at Cluff Lake forever.

She says they are currently looking for a permanent site somewhere downwind of the oil sands.