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Volume 56, No. 23

235/2013

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 3, 2013

B.C. Reg. 235/2013 , deposited November 28, 2013, pursuant to the CLEAN ENERGY ACT [section 35]. Order in Council 556/2013, approved and ordered November 27, 2013.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Clean Energy) Regulation, B.C. Reg. 102/2012, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— W. BENNETT, Minister of Energy and Mines and Minister Responsible for Core Review ; T. LAKE, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

Section 1 of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Clean Energy) Regulation, B.C. Reg. 102/2012, is amended in the definition of “ eligible vehicle ” by striking out “ and ” at the end of paragraph (a), by adding “ , ” at the end of paragraph (b), and by adding the following paragraphs:

(

c) a mine haul truck, and

(

d) a locomotive .

Section 2 is amended

(

a) in subsection (1) (

b) by adding “ an expenditure on ” before “ a grant or zero-interest loan ”,

(

b) in subsection (1) (c) (ii) (

B) by striking out “ $4 million ” and substituting “ $6 million ”,

(

c) by adding the following subsection:

(1.1) Despite the reference in subsection (1) (

a) to an open and competitive application process, a public utility may, in carrying out the undertaking described in subsection (1), give priority to a person in British Columbia who fuels an eligible vehicle using natural gas delivered through the public utility’s pipeline system. ,

(

d) by repealing subsection (2) (

a) and substituting the following:

(

a) the public utility, before April 1, 2017, enters into a binding commitment to

(

i) construct and operate, or

(ii) purchase and operate

one or more compressed natural gas fuelling stations, including storage, compression and dispensing equipment and facilities, within the service territory of the public utility for the purposes of providing compressed natural gas fuel and fuelling services to owners of vehicles that operate on compressed natural gas; ,

(

e) in subsection (2) (b) (

i) by striking out “ $1.1 million ” and substituting “ $2 million ”,

(

f) in subsection (2) (

c) by striking out “ during the undertaking period ”,

(

g) by repealing subsection (3) (

a) and substituting the following:

(

a) the public utility, before April 1, 2017, enters into a binding commitment to

(

i) construct and operate, or

(ii) purchase and operate

one or more tanker truck load-outs, liquefied natural gas tank trailers or liquefied natural gas fuelling stations for the purposes of providing within British Columbia liquefied natural gas fuel and fuelling services to owners of vehicles that operate on liquefied natural gas; ,

(

h) in subsection (3) (b) (ii) by striking out “ $4 million ” and substituting “ $5.5 million ”,

(

i) in subsection (3) (

c) by striking out “ during the undertaking period ”, and

(

j) by adding the following subsection:

(4) In subsections (1) to (3), “expenditures” includes, except with respect to expenditures on administration and marketing, binding commitments to incur expenditures in the future.

Section 3 is repealed.

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