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Air quality |
What is causing the
problems
AIR POLLUTION FROM
TRANSPORT
CAUSES
1.
Street
infrastructure and traffic organisation 2. Public
transport 3. Spatial
development 4. Cargo
transport and handling 5. Development
of environmentally friendly and healthy
transport
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POLLUTION
CAUSED BY CO-GENERATION STATIONS AND BOILER PLANTS
CAUSES
1. Too numerous individual heating systems (in Mezaparks,
Pardaugava, and elsewhere) where coal is used as fuel 2. Use
at Riga's
co-generation station TEC 2 of cheaper heavy oil instead of
gas 3. Small-scale
local boiler houses not connected to the district heating network
and using fuel that does not meet environmental requirements and is
not friendly to the
environment
HEAT LOSSES IN THE HEAT NETWORKS AND
BUILDINGS
CAUSES
1.
Poor insulation of buildings and heat networks; antiquated
networks 2. Monopoly position of the company "Rigas Siltums" in
heat production and supply
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