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Clean air activist Gordon Dalzell is pleased.

"I’m glad to see it's being done because it's probably going to give people the evidence that they need to say, ‘Look, the shale gas impact, we told you it was going to cause local air quality problems, and here's the data,’" he said.

Government officials did not say when the data would be made available.

Meanwhile, the provincial government says air quality continues to improve across the province, according to 2010 results released Wednesday.

The 17 monitoring sites across the province recorded downward trends for most pollutants, including carbon monoxide.

The report also showed the lowest readings of acid rain across the province since monitoring began in 1986, officials said.

Still, the environment minister said there are areas he'd like to see continue to improve.

"It's a good report, we're seeing some good trends, but that doesn't mean we can take ease or let up,” said Fitch.

Source: CBC.ca