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Air emissions, by business segment: Chemicals
This stacked bar chart shows the emissions to air of the Chemicals business segment, analyzed by pollutant type.

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Air emissions, by business segment: Chemicals
  Units 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Emissions to Air - Group total (9) Tonnes 1,354,596 1,211,171 1,222,918 1,036,207 886,462 844,431 903,268 763,675
Total Emissions to Air - Chemicals (7,9) Tonnes 42,234 36,047 36,776 35,065 34,568 33,722 40,274  
Methane - Chemicals (7) Tonnes 2,516 3,269 2,837 3,283 3,183 5,295 1,591  
NMHC - Chemicals (7) Tonnes 21,801 20,017 20,767 18,198 18,826 15,552 15,735  
Sulphur Dioxide - Chemicals (7) Tonnes 5,709 2,126 3,175 2,688 2,072 2,265 12,249  
Oxides of Nitrogen - Chemicals (7) Tonnes 12,208 10,635 9,997 10,896 10,487 10,610 10,699  

(7) Chemicals business in 2005 is the Innovene business sold as Ineos
(9) Previous reports included CO, particulates and other inorganics for air emissions. These pollutants have been excluded from all air emission totals reported here.


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