Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 154, Number 5: 

February 1, 2020

DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT

CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT, 1999

Notice with respect to reporting of greenhouse gases (GHGs) for 2019

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to subsection 46(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (the Act), that, with respect to emissions of GHGs identified in Schedule 1 to this notice and for the purpose of conducting research, creating an inventory of data, formulating objectives and codes of practice, issuing guidelines or assessing or reporting on the state of the environment, any person who operates a facility described in Schedule 3 to this notice during the 2019 calendar year, and who possesses or who may reasonably be expected to have access to information described in Schedules 4 through 18 to this notice, shall provide the Minister of the Environment with this information no later than June 1, 2020.

Persons subject to this notice shall address responses or enquiries to the following address:

Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
Pollutant Inventories and Reporting Division
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Place Vincent Massey, 7th Floor
351 Saint-Joseph Boulevard
Gatineau, Quebec
K1A 0H3
Telephone: 819‑938‑3258 or 1‑877‑877‑8375
Email: ec.ges-ghg.ec@canada.ca

This notice applies to the calendar year 2019. Pursuant to subsection 46(8) of the Act, persons subject to this notice shall keep copies of the information required under this notice, together with any calculations, measurements and other data on which the information is based, at the facility to which the calculations, measurements and other data relate, or at the facility’s parent company, located in Canada, for a period of three years from the date the information is required to be submitted. Where the person chooses to keep the information required under the notice, together with any calculations, measurements and other data, at the facility’s parent company in Canada, that person shall inform the Minister of the civic address of that parent company.

If a person who operates a facility with respect to which information was submitted in response to the Notice with respect to reporting of greenhouse gases (GHGs) for 2018 determines that the facility does not meet the criteria set out in Schedule 3 of this notice, the person shall notify the Minister of the Environment that the facility does not meet those criteria no later than June 1, 2020.

The Minister of the Environment intends to publish information on greenhouse gas emission totals by gas per facility submitted in response to this notice. Pursuant to section 51 of the Act, any person who provides information in response to this notice may submit, with their information and no later than the deadline for submission, a written request that the information be treated as confidential based on the reasons set out in section 52 of the Act. The person requesting confidential treatment of the information shall indicate which of the reasons stipulated in section 52 of the Act applies to their request. Nevertheless, the Minister may decide to disclose the information submitted in response to this notice, in accordance with subsection 53(3) of the Act. Every person to whom this notice is directed shall comply with the notice. A person who fails to comply with the requirements of the notice will be liable under the applicable offence provisions of the Act.

Jacqueline Gonçalves
Director General
Science and Risk Assessment Directorate
On behalf of the Minister of the Environment

SCHEDULE 1

Greenhouse gases

Table 1: Greenhouse gases subject to mandatory reporting
  Greenhouse Gas Formula CAS Registry Number table a1 note a 100-year Global Warming Potential (GWP) table a1 note b
1. Carbon dioxide CO2 124-38-9 1
2. Methane CH4 74-82-8 25
3. Nitrous oxide N2O 10024-97-2 298
4. Sulphur hexafluoride SF6 2551-62-4 22 800
5. HFC-23 CHF3 75-46-7 14 800
6. HFC-32 CH2F2 75-10-5 675
7. HFC-41 CH3F 593-53-3 92
8. HFC-43-10mee C5H2F10 138495-42-8 1 640
9. HFC-125 C2HF5 354-33-6 3 500
10. HFC-134 C2H2F4 (Structure: CHF2CHF2) 359-35-3 1 100
11. HFC-134a C2H2F4 (Structure: CH2FCF3) 811-97-2 1 430
12. HFC-143 C2H3F3 (Structure: CHF2CH2F) 430-66-0 353
13. HFC-143a C2H3F3 (Structure: CF3CH3) 420-46-2 4 470
14. HFC-152a C2H4F2 (Structure: CH3CHF2) 75-37-6 124
15. HFC-227ea C3HF7 431-89-0 3 220
16. HFC-236fa C3H2F6 690-39-1 9 810
17. HFC-245ca C3H3F5 679-86-7 693
18. Perfluoromethane CF4 75-73-0 7 390
19. Perfluoroethane C2F6 76-16-4 12 200
20. Perfluoropropane C3F8 76-19-7 8 830
21. Perfluorobutane C4F10 355-25-9 8 860
22. Perfluorocyclobutane c-C4F8 115-25-3 10 300
23. Perfluoropentane C5F12 678-26-2 9 160
24. Perfluorohexane C6F14 355-42-0 9 300

Table a1 note(s)

Table a1 note a

The Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Number is the property of the American Chemical Society, and any use or redistribution, except as required in supporting regulatory requirements and/or for reports to the Government of Canada when the information and the reports are required by law or administrative policy, is not permitted without the prior, written permission of the American Chemical Society.

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Table a1 note b

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 2014. FCCC/CP/2013/10/Add.3. Decision 24/CP.19. Revision of the UNFCCC Reporting on annual inventories for Parties included in Annex I to the Convention, November 2013.

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SCHEDULE 2

Definition

The following definitions apply to this notice and its schedules:

SCHEDULE 3

Reporting criteria

1. This notice applies to any person who operates

2. Any person who operates a facility described in this notice shall determine whether a facility meets or exceeds the reporting threshold using the following equation and the steps described in paragraphs 2(a) to 2(c):

Total emissions formula - Description below

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The result of the sum of total mass of each of the gases or gas species multiplied by their respective global warming potential.

Where:

3. Any person who operates a facility that is engaged in more than one activity described in paragraph 1(b) shall report emissions for each activity separately, but shall determine whether the facility meets or exceeds the reporting threshold by adding emissions from all activities undertaken at the facility.

4. If the person who operates a facility described in section 1 changes during the 2019 calendar year, the facility operator on December 31, 2019, shall report for the entire 2019 calendar year. If facility operations terminate during the 2019 calendar year, the last facility operator shall report for the portion of the year during which the operations occurred.

Table 2: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes under which facilities are subject to mandatory reporting

SCHEDULE 4

Reportable administrative information

1. Any person who operates a facility described in Schedule 3 of this notice shall, for each facility, report the

2. The reported information required by this notice is to include a Statement of Certification, signed by an authorized signing officer, indicating that the information submitted is true, accurate and complete.

SCHEDULE 5

Basic reporting requirements

1. This schedule applies to any person who operates a facility described in paragraph 1(a) or 1(b) of Schedule 3 of this notice.

2. Any person subject to this schedule shall, for each of the GHGs listed in Table 1 of Schedule 1, report

3. Any person subject to this schedule shall

5. Any person subject to this schedule, and to whom none of Schedules 6 through 18 of this notice apply, shall

Table 3: Table for reporting selected GHGs by source category
Emission Source Categories
Greenhouse
Gas		 Stationary Fuel Combustion Emissions Industrial
Process Emissions		 Industrial Product Use Emissions Fugitive On-site Transportation Emissions Waste Emission Wastewater Emission
Venting Emissions Flaring Emissions Leakage Emissions
Carbon dioxide (excluding CO2 emissions from biomass combustion, which is to be reported separately)     N/A            
Methane     N/A            
Nitrous oxide                  
Sulphur hexafluoride N/A     N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Hydrofluorocarbons N/A By species By species N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Perfluorocarbons N/A By species By species N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Total                  

SCHEDULE 6

CO2 capture, CO2 transport, CO2 injection and CO2 storage reporting requirements

1. This schedule applies to any person who operates a facility described in paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 3 of this notice.

2. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the quantification methods for carbon capture, transport and storage described in section 1 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of CO2

3. Any person subject to this schedule shall use section 1 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

4. Any person subject to this schedule shall use section 1 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity, expressed in tonnes, of CO2 fugitive emissions from equipment and infrastructure used for

5. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the total annual quantity, expressed in tonnes (t), of CO2 surface leakage from each long-term geological storage site and enhanced fossil fuel recovery operation.

6. Any person subject to this schedule shall use section 1 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity, expressed in tonnes (t), of CO2 venting emissions from equipment and infrastructure used for

SCHEDULE 7

Fuel combustion and flaring reporting requirements

1. This schedule applies to any person who operates a facility described in paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 3 of this notice.

2. Any person subject to this schedule and whose facility is classified under NAICS 221112 shall use section 2 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity, expressed in tonnes (t), of CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions, by fuel type and source, from

3. Any person subject to this schedule who is not subject to section 2 above shall use section 2 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity, expressed in tonnes (t), of CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions, by fuel type and source, from

4. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the methods used to quantify each greenhouse gas under section 2 and section 3 of this schedule, by fuel type and source.

5. Any person subject to this schedule who operates a facility with stacks monitored by CEMS may use the annual emissions data from CEMS to report the total emissions from fuel combustion of CO2, CH4 and N2O. The person shall report their fuel information by fuel type, in accordance with sections 6 and 7 below.

6. Any person subject to this schedule shall, for each fuel used under section 2 and section 3, report the

7. Any person subject to this schedule shall, for each fuel used under section 2 and section 3, report the annual measured and weighted

8. Any person subject to this schedule shall, for each fuel used under section 2 and section 3, report the default CO2, CH4 and N2O emission factors, when using values presented in Table 2-1 to Table 2-11 and in Equation 2-20, Equation 2-22 and Equation 2-23 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements.

9. Any person subject to this schedule shall report, for each fuel, the combustion oxidation factor when applied and provide supporting documentation used in its derivation.

10. Any person subject to this schedule shall, for steam used to quantify emissions under section 2 and section 3 above, report the

11. Any person subject to this schedule and whose facility is classified under NAICS 221112 shall report the annual quantities of

12. Any person subject to this schedule who is not subject to section 2 above shall report the annual quantities of

13. Any person subject to this schedule who operates a co-generator(s) or purchases or sells steam or heat shall report the annual quantities of

14. Any person subject to section 11, section 12 and section 13 of this schedule shall use methods conforming to the Weights and Measures Act to measure the reported annual quantities purchased and sold.

15. Any person subject to this schedule shall submit documentation describing the methodology used, when

16. Any person subject to this schedule, who obtains from a supplier or performs fuel sampling, analysis and consumption measurement, as outlined in section 2.D of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements, shall submit a document summarizing fuel quantity, carbon content and higher heating value for all sampling and measurement periods.

17. Any person subject to this schedule is not required to report fuels and their associated emissions when the sum of CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions (excluding CO2 from biomass), in CO2 eq., from the combustion of one or more of these fuels does not exceed 0.5% of the total facility GHG emissions from all fuels combusted (excluding CO2 from biomass combustion).

18. Any person subject to this schedule is not required to report flaring emissions when the sum of CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions, in CO2 eq., from the flare(s) does not exceed 0.5% of the facility total flaring GHG emissions, or 0.05% of facility total combustion GHG emissions, whichever is larger.

SCHEDULE 8

Lime production reporting requirements

1. This schedule applies to any person who operates a facility described in subparagraph 1(b)(iii) of Schedule 3 of this notice. For fuel combustion and flaring emissions, the person shall report using Schedule 7 of this notice. For lime kilns at pulp and paper facilities, the person shall report using Schedule 17 of this notice.

2. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 3 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

3. Any person subject to this schedule who uses data from CEMS to report emissions must report

4. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the methods used to quantify emissions.

SCHEDULE 9

Cement production reporting requirements

1. This schedule applies to any person who operates a facility described in subparagraph 1(b)(iv) of Schedule 3 of this notice. For fuel combustion and flaring emissions, the person shall report using Schedule 7 of this notice.

2. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 4 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

3. Any person subject to this schedule who uses data from CEMS to report emissions must report

4. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the methods used to quantify emissions.

SCHEDULE 10

Aluminum production reporting requirements

1. This schedule applies to any person who operates a facility described in subparagraph 1(b)(v) of Schedule 3 of this notice. For fuel combustion and flaring emissions, the person shall report using Schedule 7 of this notice.

2. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 5.A.1 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

3. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 5.A.2 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

4. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 5.A.3 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of CO2 emissions from anode and cathode baking, expressed in tonnes (t).

5. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 5.A.4 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

6. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 5.A.5 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

7. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 5.A.6 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

8. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 5.A.7 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

9. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 5.A.7 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

10. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 5.A.8 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of emissions from SF6 used as a cover gas, expressed in tonnes (t).

11. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the total annual quantity of liquid aluminium production, expressed in tonnes (t).

12. Any person subject to this schedule who uses data from CEMS to report emissions must report

13. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the methods used to quantify emissions.

SCHEDULE 11

Iron and steel production reporting requirements

1. This schedule applies to any person who operates a facility described in subparagraph 1(b)(vi) of Schedule 3 of this notice. For fuel combustion and flaring emissions, the person shall report using Schedule 7 of this notice.

2. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the

3. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 6.A.1 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for an induration furnace to report the

4. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 6.A.2 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for a basic oxygen furnace to report the

5. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 6.A.3 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for coke oven battery to report the

6. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 6.A.4 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for sinter production to report the

7. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 6.A.5 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for an electric arc furnace to report the

8. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 6.A.6 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for an argon-oxygen decarburization vessel to report the

9. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 6.A.7 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for a direct reduction furnace to report the

10. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 6.A.8 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for a blast furnace to report the

11. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 6.A.9 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for the ladle furnace to report the

12. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 6.B.1 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for the atomization of molten cast iron to report the

13. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 6.B.2 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for the decarburization of iron powder to report the

14. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 6.B.3 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for steel grading to report the

15. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 6.B.4 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for steel powder annealing to report the

16. Any person subject to this schedule who uses data from CEMS to report emissions, must report

17. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the methods used to quantify emissions.

SCHEDULE 12

Electricity and heat generation

1. This schedule applies to any person who operates a facility described in subparagraph 1(b)(vii) of Schedule 3 of this notice. For fuel combustion and flaring emissions, the person shall report using Schedule 7 of this notice.

2. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 7 of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

3. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the methods used to quantify emissions.

SCHEDULE 13

Ammonia production

1. This schedule applies to any person who operates a facility described in subparagraph 1(b)(viii) of Schedule 3 of this notice. For fuel combustion and flaring emissions, the person shall report using Schedule 7 of this notice.

2. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 8.A of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of feedstock consumption, by feedstock type, expressed in

3. Any person subject to this schedule shall, for each feedstock type used under section 3, report the annual weighted average carbon content expressed in

4. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 8.A of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

5. Any person subject to this schedule who uses data from CEMS to report emissions must report

6. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the methods used to quantify emissions.

SCHEDULE 14

Nitric acid production

1. This schedule applies to any person who operates a facility described in subparagraph 1(b)(ix) of Schedule 3 of this notice. For fuel combustion and flaring emissions, the person shall report using Schedule 7 of this notice.

2. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 9.A of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

3. Any person subject to this schedule who operates a facility where there is abatement downtime shall report the

4. Any person subject to this schedule who operates a facility where the NOx abatement is integrated within the operating process and cannot be bypassed shall report the annual weighted average N2O emission factor, expressed in kilograms (kg) of N2O/tonnes (t) of nitric acid, 100% acid base.

5. Any person subject to this schedule who uses data from CEMS to report emissions must report

6. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the methods used to quantify emissions.

SCHEDULE 15

Hydrogen production

1. This schedule applies to any person who operates a facility described in subparagraph 1(b)(x) of Schedule 3 of this notice. For fuel combustion and flaring emissions, the person shall report using Schedule 7 of this notice. For ammonia production, the person shall report using Schedule 13 of this notice.

2. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 10.A of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

3. Any person subject to this schedule shall, for paragraph 2(b), indicate if the CO2 that is recovered or captured is for downstream use, on-site production or for permanent storage.

4. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 10.A of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of feedstock charged, reported by feedstock type, expressed in

5. Any person subject to this schedule shall, for each feedstock type used under section 4, report the annual weighted average carbon content expressed in

6. Any person subject to this schedule shall, when an accepted Alberta-specific methodology is used to report the emissions under paragraph 2(a), report the quantity of CO2 in the feed gas, by feedstock type, expressed in tonnes (t).

7. Any person subject to this schedule who uses data from CEMS to report emissions must report

8. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the methods used to quantify emissions.

SCHEDULE 16

Petroleum refineries

1. This schedule applies to any person who operates a facility described in subparagraph 1(b)(xi) of Schedule 3 of this notice. For fuel combustion and flaring emissions, the person shall report using Schedule 7 of this notice. For hydrogen production emissions, the person shall report using Schedule 15 of this notice.

2. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 11.A of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of CO2, CH4, and N2O emissions from catalyst regeneration, expressed in tonnes (t).

3. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 11.B of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of CO2, CH4, and N2O emissions from process vents, expressed in tonnes (t).

4. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 11.C of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of CO2 and CH4 emissions from asphalt production, expressed in tonnes (t).

5. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 11.D of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of CO2 emissions from sulphur recovery units, expressed in tonnes (t). Any person subject to this schedule shall provide documentation of the methodology if they are using a source-specific molar fraction of CO2 in sour gas in Equation 11-14.

6. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 11.F of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of CH4 emissions from above-ground storage tanks, expressed in tonnes (t).

7. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 11.G of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of CH4 and N2O emissions from wastewater treatment plants, expressed in tonnes (t).

8. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 11.H of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of CH4 emissions from oil-water separators, expressed in tonnes (t).

9. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 11.I of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of CH4 emissions from equipment leaks at refineries, expressed in tonnes (t).

10. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 11.J of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of CO2, CH4, and N2O emissions from coking calcining units, expressed in tonnes (t).

11. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 11.K of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of CO2, CH4, and N2O emissions from uncontrolled blowdown systems, expressed in tonnes (t).

12. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 11.L of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of CH4 emissions from loading operations, expressed in tonnes (t).

13. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 11.M of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the total annual quantity of CH4 emissions from delayed coking units, expressed in tonnes (t).

14. Any person subject to this schedule shall report, using data available through typical operations, for each of crude oil, propane, butane and ethanol brought into the facility for input into the refining process or as a fuel additive, the

15. Any person subject to this schedule shall, for each feedstock used under sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13, report the total annual

16. Any person subject to this schedule who operates a facility with stacks monitored by CEMS may use the annual emissions data from CEMS to report the emissions and production information under section 2 through section 13. This shall not include the emissions information specified for CEMS in Schedule 7 and Schedule 15 of this notice.

17. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the methods used to quantify emissions.

SCHEDULE 17

Pulp and paper production

1. This schedule applies to any person who operates a facility described in subparagraph 1(b)(xii) of Schedule 3 of this notice. For fuel combustion and flaring emissions, the person shall report using Schedule 7 of this notice.

2. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 12.A of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

3. Any person subject to this schedule who uses data from CEMS to report emissions must report

4. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the methods used to quantify emissions.

SCHEDULE 18

Base metal production

1. This schedule applies to any person who operates a facility described in subparagraph 1(b)(xiii) of Schedule 3 of this notice. For fuel combustion and flaring emissions, the person shall report using Schedule 7 of this notice.

2. Any person subject to this schedule shall use the greenhouse gas quantification methods in section 13.A of Canada’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements to report the

3. Any person subject to this schedule who uses data from CEMS to report emissions must report

4. Any person subject to this schedule shall report the methods used to quantify emissions.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the notice.)

The Government of Canada established the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) in 2004 to collect and publish greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions information annually from the largest emitting Canadian facilities. Under this mandatory reporting program, a notice is issued in accordance with section 46 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (the Act) and published annually in the Canada Gazette, outlining the reporting requirements. Operators of facilities that meet the criteria specified in the notice are required to submit their information to Environment and Climate Change Canada by June 1 of each year. The GHGRP is part of Canada’s ongoing effort to develop, through a collaborative process with provinces and territories, a harmonized and efficient reporting system that will meet the information needs of all levels of government, provide Canadians with reliable and timely information on greenhouse gas emissions, and support regulatory initiatives.

In December 2016, the Government of Canada published the Notice of intent to inform stakeholders of upcoming consultations on proposed changes to the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program to pursue an expansion to the GHGRP in order to

The notice requiring the reporting of 2017 GHG information, published in December 2017, represented Phase 1 of the expansion. In this phase, the reporting threshold was lowered to require all facilities emitting 10 000 tonnes or more of GHGs (in CO2 eq. units) to report. Specific industry sectors were also required to report additional information, using prescribed methods. These sectors were cement, lime, aluminum, iron and steel producers as well as facilities involved in CO2 capture, transport, injection and storage activities.

The notice requiring the reporting of 2018 GHG information, published in January 2019, continued the expansion to the GHGRP through Phase 2 by requiring more industry sectors to report additional information, using prescribed methods. These sectors were ammonia producers, base metal producers, electric power generation, ethanol producers, hydrogen producers, mining operations (except oil and gas), nitric acid producers, petroleum refineries, and pulp and paper producers.

This notice maintains the requirements of the two initial phases of the expansion and contains only minor changes from the previous year’s notice (corrections and clarifications). Further expansion of the program will be assessed in future reporting cycles.

The GHGRP will continue to allow facilities subject to the expanded reporting requirements issued under phases 1 and 2 of the expansion to upload provincial reports for those that are already reporting the same or similar data to provincial programs (in British Columbia, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador).

Information required to be reported as outlined in this notice will continue to be collected via the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) Single Window (SW) system. This system currently collects data for ECCC’s GHGRP and for British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, to support provincial GHG reporting regulations; and for the National Pollutant Release Inventory, its partners and various other partner programs. Facilities that must report to the GHGRP for 2019 and that are subject to the federal Output-Based Pricing System Regulations will report the information required by each program in separate reports through the same reporting system. Facilities that are not subject to these Regulations are still subject to GHGRP reporting. Further information on the GHGRP and step-by-step instructions on how to navigate the SW system are available on the Program website.

Compliance with the Act is mandatory and specific offences are established by subsection 272.1(1) of the Act. Subsections 272.1(2), (3) and (4) of the Act set the penalties for persons who contravene section 46 of the Act. Offences include the offence of failing to comply with an obligation arising from the present notice and the offence of providing false or misleading information. Penalties include fines, and the amount of the fine can range from a maximum of $25,000 for an individual convicted following summary proceedings to a maximum of $500,000 for a large corporation convicted on indictment. The maximum fines are doubled for second or subsequent offences.

The current text of the Act, including the most recent amendments, is available on Justice Canada’s website.

The Act is enforced in accordance with the Compliance and Enforcement Policy for the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. Suspected violations under the Act can be reported to the Enforcement Branch by email at ec.enviroinfo.ec@canada.ca.

For more information on the GHGRP, including guidance documents, annual summary reports, and access to reported data, please visit the GHGRP website.