O. Reg. 153/99: ONTARIO POWER GENERATION INC.

 

Environmental Protection Act
Loi sur la protection de l’environnement

ONTARIO REGULATION 153/99

ONTARIO POWER GENERATION INC.

Note: This Regulation was revoked on May 25, 2017. (See: O. Reg. 154/17, s. 1)

Last amendment:  O. Reg. 154/17.

This Regulation is made in English only.

0.1 (1) In this Regulation,

“nitrogen oxides” means the sum, calculated in accordance with subsection (2), of nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide.

(2) The amount of nitrogen oxides are calculated for the purpose of this Regulation according to the following formula:

A = (B × 1.53) + C

where,

A = the total amount of nitrogen oxides,

B = the relevant amount of nitric oxide,

C = the relevant amount of nitrogen dioxide.

O. Reg. 192/05, s. 1.

1. (1) Ontario Power Generation Inc. shall ensure that, until December 31, 2005, in the aggregate,

(a) emissions of sulphur dioxide from the fossil-fuelled electric generating stations of Ontario Power Generation Inc. and its subsidiaries do not exceed 175 kilotonnes in any year; and

(b) emissions of sulphur dioxide and of nitric oxide from the fossil-fuelled electric generating stations of Ontario Power Generation Inc. and its subsidiaries do not exceed 215 kilotonnes in any year.  O. Reg. 153/99, s. 1 (1); O. Reg. 192/05, s. 2 (1).

(1.1) Ontario Power Generation Inc. shall ensure that, after December 31 2005, in the aggregate,

(a) emissions of sulphur dioxide from the fossil-fuelled electric generating stations of Ontario Power Generation Inc. and its subsidiaries do not exceed 175 kilotonnes in any year; and

(b) emissions of sulphur dioxide and of nitrogen oxides from the fossil-fuelled electric generating stations of Ontario Power Generation Inc. and its subsidiaries do not exceed 236 kilotonnes in any year.  O. Reg. 192/05, s. 2 (2).

(2) In this section,

“subsidiary” has the same meaning as in the Electricity Act, 1998.  O. Reg. 153/99, s. 1 (2); O. Reg. 192/05, s. 2 (3).

(3) For the purpose of subsection (1) in 1998, the fossil-fuelled electric generating stations of Ontario Hydro shall be deemed to be fossil-fuelled electric generating stations of Ontario Power Generation Inc.  O. Reg. 153/99, s. 1 (3).

2. Ontario Power Generation Inc. shall perform such studies and research as are necessary to determine the options available to enable it to comply with section 1 and, by the 31st day of January and July in each year, shall file written reports with the Minister of Energy and the Minister of the Environment describing the studies and research and the means that will be used to comply with section 1.  O. Reg. 153/99, s. 2; O. Reg. 192/05, s. 3.

3. Ontario Power Generation Inc. shall file written reports with the Minister of Energy and the Minister of the Environment by the 1st day of March, June, September and December in each year setting out, for the electric generating stations to which section 1 applies, the amount of the emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitric oxide or nitrogen oxides, as the case may be for the three-month period ending on the last day of March, June, September or December immediately before the filing of the report.  O. Reg. 153/99, s. 3; O. Reg. 192/05, s. 4.

4. Omitted (revokes other Regulations).  O. Reg. 153/99, s. 4.

5. Omitted (provides for coming into force of provisions of this Regulation).  O. Reg. 153/99, s. 5.