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Volume 51, No. 24

B.C. Reg. 392/2008

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 16, 2008

B.C. Reg. 392/2008 , deposited December 9, 2008, pursuant to the GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION TARGETS ACT [Section 12]. Order in Council 904/2008, approved and ordered December 8, 2008.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Carbon Neutral Government Regulation is made as set out in the attached Appendix.

— B. PENNER, Minister of Environment ; S. BOND, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

Appendix

CARBON NEUTRAL GOVERNMENT REGULATION

Contents

Definitions

Excluded organization

How measurements of emissions are to be expressed

PSO sources of greenhouse gas emissions

Additional reporting requirements

How emissions and their levels are to be determined

Emission offsets

Carbon neutral action reports

Schedule

Definitions

(1) In this regulation:

"Act" means the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act ;

"carbon dioxide equivalent" means the mass of carbon dioxide that would produce the same global warming impact as a given mass of another greenhouse gas, as determined using the 100 year time horizon global warming potential set out in column 3 of the Schedule;

"director" means the government employee designated in writing by the minister as director for the purposes of the Act;

"responsible minister ", in relation to a public sector organization, means the minister who is the appropriate minister within the meaning of

section 24 of the Financial Administration Act .

(2) In the Act and this regulation:

"public business" , in relation to the Provincial government, means business necessary or ancillary to a public official's duties;

"public official" means

(

a) a member of the Legislative Assembly and any person on the member's staff,

(

b) an employee of the government of British Columbia,

(

c) a member or employee of a tribunal as defined in the Administrative Tribunals Act and includes a member or employee of the Forests Appeals Commission continued under

section 194 of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act ,

(

d) a provincial court judge, justice of the peace or judicial justice,

(

e) an employee of the Legislative Assembly, including a permanent officer of the Legislative Assembly appointed under

section 39 (1) of the Constitution Act , or

(

f) an officer of the legislature within the meaning of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and an employee of an officer of the legislature

but does not include

(

g) an officer or employee of a government body within the meaning of the Financial Administration Act .

Excluded organization

2 Canadian Blood Services is excluded from the definition of "public sector organization" in

section 1 of the Act.

How measurements of emissions are to be expressed

3 For the purposes of the Act, greenhouse gas emissions must be expressed in tonnes based on their carbon dioxide equivalencies and tonnes of each specific greenhouse gas listed in the Schedule.

PSO sources of greenhouse gas emissions

(1) In this section:

"building" includes a structure or other permanent improvement;

"equipment" includes components of an information technology system;

"indirect energy emissions" , in relation to a public sector organization or the supply of a good or service, means greenhouse gas emissions specifically associated with the production of electricity, steam, heating or cooling that is consumed or used by the organization or supplier;

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the following greenhouse gas emissions are deemed to be PSO greenhouse gas emissions:

(

a) direct emissions and indirect energy emissions from the heating, air conditioning and lighting of a building or portion of a building owned or leased by the public sector organization, other than the heating, air conditioning and lighting of a building that is leased to another public sector organization;

(

b) direct emissions and indirect energy emissions from the operation of appliances, equipment and machinery, other than mobile combustion sources, owned or leased by the public sector organization;

(

c) direct emissions from the operation of a vehicle or other mobile combustion source, other than a public transit or school bus owned or leased by the public sector organization;

(

d) in relation to the Provincial government, direct emissions and indirect energy emissions from the supply of travel and accommodation services to a public official who is travelling on public business for which travel expenses and accommodation expenses are covered by the consolidated revenue fund;

(

e) direct emissions from the production of office paper purchased by the public sector organization for use in its business.

(3) Greenhouse gas emissions from an electricity generating facility operated by the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority are not emissions for which that authority is deemed to be responsible under the Act.

Additional reporting requirements

5 In addition to the requirements of the Act and this regulation relating to PSO greenhouse gas emissions, a public sector organization must determine and report greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the operation of a public transit bus or school bus that is owned or leased by the public sector organization.

How emissions and their levels are to be determined

6 A public sector organization must determine, report and verify greenhouse gas emissions in the manner and form specified by the director.

Emission offsets

Carbon neutral action reports

(1) Before making a carbon neutral action report public in accordance with

section 8 of the Act, a public sector organization, other than the Provincial Government, must submit a draft report to the responsible minister.

(2) A draft report under subsection (1) must be submitted

(

a) in the form and with the content specified by the director, and

(

b) on the earlier of

(

i) at least one month before the day on which the public sector organization intends to make the report public, and

(ii) March 31.

Schedule

Specified Gases and Their Global Warming Potentials

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Specified Gas

Column 3

Chemical Formula

Column 4

Global Warming

Potential

(100 year time

horizon)

Carbon dioxide

CO 2

Methane

CH 4

Nitrous oxide

N 2 O

HFC-23

CHF 3

11 700

HFC-32

CH 2 F 2

HFC-41

CH 3 F

HFC-43-10mee

C 5 H 2 F 10

1 300

HFC-125

C 2 HF 5

2 800

HFC-134

C 2 H 2 F 4 (CHF 2 CHF 2 )

1 000

HFC-134a

C 2 H 2 F 4 (CH 2 FCF 3 )

1 300

HFC-152a

C 2 H 4 F 2 (CH 3 CHF 2 )

HFC-143

C 2 H 3 F 3 (CHF 2 CH 2 F)

HFC-143a

C 2 H 3 F 3 (CF 3 CH 3 )

3 800

HFC-227ea

C 3 HF 7

2 900

HFC-236fa

C 3 H 2 F 6

6 300

HFC-245ca

C 3 H 3 F 5

Sulphur hexafluoride

SF 6

23 900

Perfluoromethane

CF 4

6 500

Perfluoroethane

C 2 F 6

9 200

Perfluoroproprane

C 3 F 8

7 000

Perfluorobutane

C 4 F 10

7 000

Perfluorocyclobutane

c-C 4 F 8

8 700

Perfluoropentane

C 5 F 12

7 500

Perfluorohexane

C 6 F 14

7 400

Note: The CH 4 (Item 2) GWP includes the direct effect and those indirect effects due to the production of tropospheric ozone and stratospheric water vapour. Not included is the indirect effect due to the production of CO 2 .

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