O. Reg. 305/17: INDUSTRY EMISSIONS - NITROGEN OXIDES AND SULPHUR DIOXIDE"

O. Reg. 305/17: INDUSTRY EMISSIONS - NITROGEN OXIDES AND SULPHUR DIOXIDE, Filed July 28, 2017 under Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. E.19

ontario regulation 305/17

made under the

Environmental Protection Act

Made: July 26, 2017
Filed: July 28, 2017
Published on e-Laws: July 31, 2017
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: August 12, 2017

Amending O. Reg. 194/05

(INDUSTRY EMISSIONS - NITROGEN OXIDES AND SULPHUR DIOXIDE)

1. Subsection 11 (2) of Ontario Regulation 194/05 is amended by striking out “shall be the amount set out in Table 2” at the end and substituting “shall be 3,100 tonnes of nitrogen oxides allowances”.

2. Subsection 26 (2) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “shall be the amount set out in Table 7” at the end and substituting “shall be 10,100 tonnes of sulphur dioxide allowances”.

3. Subsection 45 (5) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “the amount of nitrogen oxides emitted” wherever it appears and substituting in each case “the amount of nitrogen oxides, in tonnes emitted”.

4. Subsection 46 (5) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “the amount of sulphur dioxide emitted” and substituting “the amount of sulphur dioxide, in tonnes, emitted”.

5. Tables 1 to 10 of the Regulation are revoked and the following substituted:

table 1
Nitrogen Oxides Emissions Allowances, sector Budgets, Section 10

Item	Column 1 Regulated sector	Column 2 Amount (tonnes)
1.	Cement	14,875
2.	Flat glass	1,805
3.	Pulp and paper	6,558
4.	Iron and steel	9,855

table 3
Nitrogen Oxides Emissions Allowances, Petroleum Sector, Section 12

Item	Column 1 Facility	Column 2 Amount (tonnes)
1.	Imperial Oil Refinery Complex, Sarnia	2,660
2.	Imperial Oil, Nanticoke	1,900
3.	Petro-Canada, Mississauga	665
4.	Shell Canada, Sarnia	1,710
5.	Suncor Inc., Sarnia	950
6.	Nova Chemicals, Sarnia	2,500

table 4
Nitrogen Oxides Emission Intensity Rates, Section 14

Item	Column 1 Regulated sector	Column 2 Facility	Column 3 Intensity rate (tonnes per unit of regulated product)
1.	Cement	St. Marys, Bowmanville	0.0020
2.	Cement	St. Lawrence, Mississauga	0.0020
3.	Cement	Lafarge, Bath	0.0020
4.	Cement	Essroc, Picton	0.0020
5.	Cement	St. Marys, St. Marys	0.0020
6.	Cement	Lafarge, Woodstock	0.0020
7.	Flat glass	PPG, Owen Sound	0.0108
8.	Iron and steel	Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie	0.00120
9.	Iron and steel	Dofasco, Hamilton	0.00085
10.	Iron and steel	Stelco Hilton Works, Hamilton	0.00116
11.	Iron and steel	Stelco Lake Erie, Nanticoke	0.00116
12.	Pulp and paper	Bowater, Thunder Bay	0.0022
13.	Pulp and paper	Kimberly Clark, Terrace Bay	0.0017
14.	Pulp and paper	Domtar, Espanola	0.0023
15.	Pulp and paper	Weyerhaeuser, Dryden	0.0029
16.	Pulp and paper	Norampac, Red Rock	0.0013
17.	Pulp and paper	Abitibi, Fort Frances	0.0040
18.	Pulp and paper	Marathon Pulp, Marathon	0.0043
19.	Pulp and paper	Tembec, Smooth Rock	0.0026
20.	Pulp and paper	Domtar, Cornwall	0.0035

table 5
Sulphur Dioxide Emission Allowances, Facility Budgets, Section 22

Item	Column 1 Facility	Column 2 Amount (tonnes)
1.	Inco, Sudbury	66,000
2.	Falconbridge, Sudbury	25,000
3.	Nova Chemicals, Sarnia	7,100
4.	Cabot Canada, Sarnia	7,300
5.	Columbian Chemicals, Hamilton	3,400

table 6
Sulphur Dioxide Emission Allowances, Sector Budgets, Section 23

Item	Column 1 Regulated sector	Column 2 Amount (tonnes)
1.	Cement	16,139
2.	Iron and steel	19,384
3.	Pulp and paper	8,339

Table 8
Sulphur Dioxide Emission Allowances, Petroleum Sector, Section 27

Item	Column 1 Facility	Column 2 Amount (tonnes)
1.	Imperial Oil Refinery Complex, Sarnia	9,200
2.	Imperial Oil, Nanticoke	6,800
3.	Petro-Canada, Mississauga	1,600
4.	Shell Canada, Sarnia	7,150
5.	Suncor Inc. Sarnia	4,000

table 9
Sulphur Dioxide Emission Intensity Rates, Section 29

Item	Column 1 Regulated sector	Column 2 Facility	Column 3 Intensity rates (tonnes per unit of regulated product)
1.	Cement	St. Marys, Bowmanville	0.0022
2.	Cement	St. Lawrence, Mississauga	0.0022
3.	Cement	Lafarge, Bath	0.0022
4.	Cement	Essroc, Picton	0.0022
5.	Cement	St. Marys, St. Marys	0.0022
6.	Cement	Lafarge, Woodstock	0.0022
7.	Base metal smelting	Inco, Sudbury	0.30
8.	Base metal smelting	Falconbridge, Sudbury	0.30
9.	Carbon black	Cabot Canada	0.066
10.	Carbon black	Columbian Chemicals	0.036
11.	Iron and steel	Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie	0.00323
12.	Iron and steel	Dofasco, Hamilton	0.00121
13.	Iron and steel	Stelco Hilton Works, Hamilton	0.00203
14.	Iron and steel	Stelco Lake Erie, Nanticoke	0.00203
15.	Pulp and paper	Bowater, Thunder Bay	0.0034
16.	Pulp and paper	Kimberly Clark, Terrace Bay	0.0015
17.	Pulp and paper	Domtar, Espanola	0.0013
18.	Pulp and paper	Weyerhaeuser, Dryden	0.0007
19.	Pulp and paper	Norampac, Red Rock	0.0017
20.	Pulp and paper	Abitibi, Fort Frances	0.0082
21.	Pulp and paper	Marathon Pulp, Marathon	0.0053
22.	Pulp and paper	Tembec, Smooth Rock	0.0016
23.	Pulp and paper	Domtar, Cornwall	0.0115
24.	Petroleum	Nova Chemicals, Sarnia	0.008875

Table 10
Additional Monitoring of Sulphur Dioxide Emission Sources, section 48

Item	Column 1 Facility	Column 2 Source
1.	Any facility in the cement sector	Kiln
2.	Inco, Sudbury	381 metre stack
3.	Inco, Sudbury	193 metre stack
4.	Falconbridge, Sudbury	93 metre stack

Commencement

6. This Regulation comes into force on the day it is filed.