Hala Al Khayyat (Abu Dhabi)
The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi has stressed the need for industrial facilities in the emirate to abide by the general and private environmental licensing conditions, to install effective devices to control pollutants, and to conduct periodic monitoring of emissions.
The authority set a fine for not taking the necessary precautions and measures to prevent or reduce the emission or leakage of air pollutants between 20,000 and 100,000 dirhams, according to violation No. 34 of the table of violations and administrative fines for violators of environmental legislation in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi issued last December.
The authority stressed that one of its most important strategic initiatives is to protect the air, through continuous monitoring of air quality, and to strengthen the relevant legal, regulatory and executive frameworks, calling on the public to report environmental violations by calling the toll-free number 800555.
The authority explained that the environmental damage caused by air pollution is represented by the increase in factors leading to climate change, the deterioration of air quality, which affects public health, and damage to wildlife due to deposition of air pollutants on soil or surface water.
The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi recently announced 8 projects and future plans that it intends to implement during the next phase to maintain air quality and enhance air quality management among the various sectors in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The plans are to establish an air quality and noise monitoring network, a continuous monitoring system for industrial facility chimney emissions, expand the air quality and noise monitoring network, a network to monitor unpleasant odors, analyze air pollutant emissions and model them mathematically, remote sensing of vehicle emissions actually while on the roads, and update Inventory of air pollutant emissions, as well as electronic connectivity of air quality monitoring networks at the local and federal levels.
monitoring stations
The Authority is heading to expand the air and noise quality monitoring network by adding monitoring stations in 10 new locations within the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, in addition to analyzing and modeling air pollutant emissions mathematically, in order to enhance the capabilities of the Authority in terms of creating a framework that suits the needs of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
The authority is working during the current year to build a system for continuous monitoring of emissions from industrial facilities chimneys, so that sensors are installed inside the chimneys in each factory, the aim of which is to establish an infrastructure to know the emissions emitted by factories, and determine the amount of emissions from them, so that work can be done in the future. With industrial facilities to develop appropriate solutions to these emissions.
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