{"id":3142,"date":"2014-10-01T13:02:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T18:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2014-10-01T11:57:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T16:57:14","slug":"oil-industries-and-winter-ozone-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/oil-industries-and-winter-ozone-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil industries and winter ozone pollution<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3143\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/drill_rig.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3143\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3143\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/drill_rig.png\" alt=\"A drill rig in Uintah Basin, Utah. (Photo Credit: Scott Sandberg, NOAA)\" width=\"288\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/drill_rig.png 288w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/drill_rig-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drill rig in Uintah Basin, Utah. (Photo Credit: Scott Sandberg, NOAA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new study explains the mechanism by which ground-level ozone pollution peaks during winter in oil and gas producing regions.\u00a0Winter ozone pollution is hard to explain because the summer sunlight is normally needed to spark the chemical reactions that create ground-level ozone.<\/p>\n<p>The authors analyzed the chemical reactions happening in the atmosphere during winter in northeastern Utah where the petroleum industry has boomed in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0researchers found\u00a0that if levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) build high enough in the atmosphere then they can trigger pollution-forming reactions themselves, without help from the sun. Almost all (97 per cent) of the VOCs emitted come from petroleum activities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nature13767\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the journal <em>Nature<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>October 1 , 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Steven Brown, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, USA<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ec.gc.ca\/scitech\/default.asp?lang=En&amp;n=F97AE834-1&amp;xsl=scitechprofile&amp;formid=494EFE41-4E1F-45F5-BEB8-3766D9FE533E\" target=\"_blank\">Shao-Meng Li<\/a><\/span>, Air Quality Process Research Division, Environment Canada<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study explains the mechanism by which ground-level ozone pollution peaks during winter in oil and gas producing regions.\u00a0Winter ozone pollution is hard to explain because the summer sunlight is normally needed to spark the chemical reactions that create ground-level ozone. The authors analyzed the chemical reactions happening in the atmosphere during winter in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,644,215,1286],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-pollution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/drill_rig.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-OG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3144,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions\/3144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}