British Columbia Order in Council — Amendment to Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting Regulation (O.C. 702/2021)

O.C. 702/2021

British Columbia — Orders in Council

PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ORDER OF THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL Order in Council No. , Approved and Ordered Lieutenant Governor Executive Council Chambers, Victoria page 1 of 6 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 Emission Reporting Regulation, B.C. Reg. 249/2015, is amended as set out in the attached Appendix. Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy Presiding Member of the Executive Council (This

part is for administrative purposes only and is not part of the Order.) Authority under which Order is made: Act and section: Greenhouse Gas Industrial Reporting and Control Act, ss. 3, 46, 47, 49 and 53 Other: OIC 805/2015 R10557177 702 December 13, 2021

page 2 of 6 APPENDIX 1

Section 1 (2) of the Greenhouse Ga s Emission Reporting Regulation, B.C. Reg. 249/2015, is amended in the definition of “reporting-only emissions” by striking out “and emissions from source types listed in items 2 and 25 of Table 1 of

Schedule A”. 2

Section 26 is amended by adding the following subsection:

(1.1) Despite

section 2 [effect of amendments], a person is not required to be accredited in accordance with amendments to ISO 14065 until required to do so by, (

a) if the person is not an accredite d verification body, a member of the International Accreditation Forum, or (

b) if the person is an accredited ve rification body, the member of the International Accreditation Forum that accredited the verification body. 3

Section 30 is amended (

a) by adding the following subsection (1.1) Despite

section 2 [effect of amendments] , the verification pr ocess described in subsection (1) is not required to comply with amendments to ISO 14064-3 until required to do so by the member of th e International Accreditation Forum that accredited the verification body conducting the verification process. , and (

b) in subsection (2) (

c) by striking out “ a sampling plan ” and substituting “ an evidence gathering plan”. 4

Section 31 is amended (

a) by striking out subsection (2 ) and substituting the following:

(2) A verification body must not provide a stat ement referred to in subsection (1) (

a) unless (

a) the verification body is of the opinion that the verification statement contains as few qualifications as possible, (

b) any errors, omissions and misstatements in the emission report have been corrected if possible in a reasonable amount of time at a reasonable effort, and (

c) any errors, omissions and misstateme nts do not result in a net overstatement or understatement that exceeds the lesser of (i) 1 000 tonnes CO2e, not incl uding reporting-only emissions, (ii) 1% of the total emissions attr ibutable to the reporting operation during the reporting period, not including reporting-only emissions, or (iii) an amount specified by the director that is less than the lesser of the amounts in subparagraphs (

i) or (ii). , and

page 3 of 6 (

b) in subsection (3) (

a) by striking out “ qualifications,” and by adding the following subparagraphs: (

i) qualifications to the verification statement, and (ii) errors, omissions and missta tements in the emission report, , and (

c) in subsection (3) (

c) by striking out “ qualifications.” and by adding the following subparagraphs: (

i) qualifications to the verification statement, and (ii) errors, omissions and missta tements in the emission report. 5

Schedule A is amended by adding th e following

section before Table 1: Emissions calculation for open pit coal mining 2 The following formula must be used to calculate the emissions in relation to open pit coal mining: where 6 Table 1 of Schedu le A is amended (

a) by repealing column 4 of item 1 (

a) and substituting the following: Carbon dioxide from non-biomass Carbon dioxide from biomass listed in

Schedule C Carbon dioxide from biomass not listed in

Schedule C Methane Nitrous Oxide , (

b) by repealing column 3 of item 8 and substituting the following: One or more of the following processes: (

a) removal of impurities us ing carbonate flux reagents; (

b) use of reducing agents; (

c) use of material (e.g., coke) for slag cleaning and the consumption of graphite or carbon electrodes; (

d) the solvent extraction and elec trowinning process, also known as SX-EW. ,a n d (

c) in column 5 of item 25 by striking out “ in accordance with best industry practices” and substituting “in accordance with

section 2 of

Schedule A”. EF = the emission factor for the type of coal in the table titled “Fugitive Emission Factors for Coal Mining ” for surface mines in British Columbia in the National Inventory Report by Canada to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that is published (

a) in the most recent National Inventory Report, and (

b) before the end of the applicable reporting period. Coal = the amount of the type of coal extracted Emissions  EF Coal=

page 4 of 6 7 Table 2 of Schedu le A is amended (

a) by repealing column 4 of item 1 (

a) and (

b) and substituting the following: Carbon dioxide from non-biomass Carbon dioxide from biomass listed in

Schedule C Carbon dioxide from biomass not listed in

Schedule C Methane Nitrous Oxide , (

b) in columns 3, 4 and 5 of item 1 by striking out paragraphs (

d) and (e), (

c) in column 5 of item 2 by striking out “ WCI.360” and substituting “ WCI.360, except substitute Table 4 of

Schedule A for Table 360-6 for a device listed in Table 4”, (

d) in column 5 of item 4 by striking out “ WCI.350” and substituting “ WCI.350, except substitute Table 4 of

Schedule A for Table 350-6 for a device listed in Table 4”, and (

e) in column 5 of item 5 (

a) by striking out “ WCI.350” and substituting “ WCI 350, except substitute Table 4 of

Schedule A for Table 350-6 for a device listed in Table 4”. 8

Schedule A is amended by adding the following table: Table 4 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 Item Device Level study (m3/h) Bleed study (m3/h) Low emission retrofitted devices only (m3/h) Equivalent devices Pressure controllers 1 Fisher 4150 0.9200 CVS 4150 CVS 4150D CVS 4150R Fisher 4150K Fisher 4150KR Fisher 4150R Fisher 4160 Fisher 4160K Fisher 4160R Dyna-Flo 4000 Dyna-Flo 4000R Dyna-Flo 4010 Dyna-Flo 4010R 2 Fisher C1 0.1100

page 5 of 6 3 Fisher 4660 0.1600 Fisher 4660A Level controllers 4 Fisher 2500 0.6950 5 Fisher 2680 0.6150 Fisher 268T 6 Fisher 2900 0.3903 Fisher 2900A Fisher 2901 Fisher 2901A 7 Fisher L2 0.3831 0.1000 Fisher FSL2-XB Fisher FSL2-XB HUB Fisher L2-1695-89293 Fisher L2-1695-89294 Fisher L2-1695-89295 Fisher L2 Snap 8N o r r i s e a l 1001 0.1932 0.0587 Norriseal 1001A Norriseal 1001S Norriseal 1001XL Norriseal 2RF14- TLDAKBH Norriseal 2SM36 Norriseal 2SM36-BBDB-N Norriseal 2SM60 Norriseal 2SM60NSLDF-AG Norriseal 2SM60NSLDF-BG Norriseal 2SM60NSLDFJAG Norriseal 2SM60NSLDFKBG Norriseal 2SM60NSLRF-AG Norriseal 2SM60NSRDF-AG Norriseal 2SM60NSRDF-BG Norriseal 2SM60NSRDFJAG Norriseal 2SM60NSRDFKAG Norriseal 3FF14NSLDF-BG Norriseal 3RF14NSLDF-AG 9 SOR 1530 0.7100 SOR 1530B SOR 1530B-G2A-C-J0-PS-CV SOR 1530C SOR 1530C-G2A-C-J0-PS-CV Transducers 10 Fisher i2P-100 0.7200 0.0922 Fisher i2p100 Fisher ITP100 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 Item Device Level study (m 3/h) Bleed study (m3/h) Low emission retrofitted devices only (m3/h) Equivalent devices

page 6 of 6 9 The table in

section 1 of

Schedule B is amended (

a) in column 2 of items 1, 2 and 3 by striking out “combustion of”, (

b) in column 3 of item 1 by striking out “ Table 2, item 1 (

d) and (e)” and substituting “Table 2, item 1 (

a) and (b)”, (

c) by repealing column 3 of item 2 and substituting the following: Carbon dioxide from biomass not listed in

Schedule C from Table 1, item 1 (

a) and (

b) Table 1, item 2 Table 1, item 9 (

a) Table 2, item 1 (b) , (

d) in column 3 of item 3 by striking out “ Table 2, item 1 (a), (b), (

d) and (e) ” and substituting “Table 2, item 1 (

a) and (b)”, (

e) by repealing column 3 of item 8 and substituting Table 1, item 1 (

a) Table 1, item 9 (

a) Table 1, item 23 Table 2, item 1 (a) , and (

f) by repealing column 3 of item 10 and substituting the following: Table 1, item 1 (

b) Table 2, item 1 (b) .

Document details

Collection	British Columbia — Orders in Council
Citation	O.C. 702/2021
Type	order_in_council
Volume / chapter	arc oic 0702 2021
Language	en
Format	pdf
Source	PROVINCIAL
Identifier	7f94eac2f894af81ec0c863fc8fdeb4ab3a585e3

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