Pollution law urged
PA Auckland Although New Zealand’s air pollution is relatively low, people still should not sit back and do nothing, a visiting world health consultant says. The warning comes from Dr Louis Clarenburg, of the Netherlands, who is in New Zealand at the request of the Government to review pollution control 12 months after the formation of the Ministry for the Environment. New Zealand’s air pollution level is well within the air quality guideline set by the World Health Organisation.
But Dr Clarenburg said now was the time restrictions should be imposed to make sure it stayed that way. “I come from a country that has a lot of air pollution,” he said. “We are making effots to reduce it, but New Zealand has the chance to start now before it gets too bad.” During his six-week stay Dr Clarenburg will visit the four main centres, the Glenbrook steel expansion project, the Kinleith pulp mills and the Marsden Point oil refinery.
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