REM 100 Study Guide - Shortness Of Breath, Fossil Fuel, Nitrite

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Resource & Environmtl Mgmt
• Course: REM 100
• Professor: Karen Ruckman

Document Summary

Formed by gases such as so2, nox dissolve in clouds, rain, and snow. Type of transboundary externality: ++ polluting goods produced. Scientific uncertainty: some commenters deny acid deposition is problem. So2: natural sources (volcanoes, fossil fuel burning: coal and oil, smelting metals: copper and nickels. Nox: natural sources (lightning, combustion in vehicles, industrial furnaces and power stations (releases n, and n combines with o nox) Aquatic organisms die when ph < 4. 5. Acid mobilizes metals (hg, al) food chain. Dissolves cu from pipes in plumbing systems. Acid deposition as a problem can still be denied . // still polluted b/c only travelled too other places. Result: reduced pollution locally // made into global/regional problem: substitutions. Low sulfur coal, natural gas, installation of flue-gas desulphurization in power stations: convention on long range transboundary air pollution 1979. Uk x incentive to co-op but forced by ec. Result: considerably reduced // x eliminate: canada -- us air quality agreement (1991)