Post Tagged with: "Pollution"

  • Strange smoke near St Pancras

    Passing by the building works behind St Pancras I peeked through the fence and was surprised to see a long pipe pumping out smoke. The air was quite sweet and I did wonder whether it was perfume designed to mask something less fruity… anyone know what these pipes that leak […]

     
  • The future needs old fashioned technology

    Last week Islington and Camden council’s held an historic joint summit on air pollution. Natalie Bennett reports. Last week’s Camden/Islington Air Quality summit has been well covered, from a primarily Islington perspective, by both Caroline Russell and Caroline Allen (and the Islington Tribune on the resultant political row), so I […]

     
  • Air pollution – let’s not “dilly dally”

    There has been a great deal of work done in Islington and Camden on “air quality” (pollution to you and me). Highbury on Foot blogger Caroline Russell reports. Yesterday I attended a Camden and Islington Air Quality Summit at Camden Town Hall. The Council Chamber was packed to hear what […]

     
  • Stuck with pollution in London?

    The BBC reports that “For the past few months a fleet of specially adapted gritting lorries has been spraying adhesive on some of London’s pollution hotspots in the middle of the night.” The idea is that a fleet of special vehicles spray the road with a pollution trapping glue keeping […]