Forest lights in the west: air quality degrades again in Quebec

Air quality is still bad on Sunday in several sectors of Quebec. Consequently, due to smoke from forest fires in Western Canada.

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Greater Montreal. Furthermore, Outaouais, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean and Mauricie are among the regions affected by a special bulletin issued by Environment Canada on this subject on Sunday morning.

The west of the province, including the regions of Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Nord-du-Québec, has also been assigned since Friday.

The plume of smoke will cause poor air quality until Monday, reports the government agency.

When writing these lines, the North Shore and the East of the province were spared.

Since the start of the summer, the province has been frequently wrapped by the smoke of forest lights west: air quality the forest fires. Montreal was also entitled to the list of cities with the worst air quality in the world on July 26.

Environnement Canada has provided citizens to protect themselves several advice to protect themselves. including that of staying inside to limit exposure to poor air quality as much as possible.

The Laval transport company also reduces its bus rate to $ 1 for Sunday.

This initiative “aims to promote the use of public transport rather than the car when the air quality deteriorates to the point of going under acceptable standards. ” it said by press release on Saturday evening.