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Volume 64, No. 24

323/2021

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 14, 2021

B.C. Reg. 323/2021 , deposited December 13, 2021, under the GREENHOUSE GAS INDUSTRIAL REPORTING AND CONTROL ACT [sections 3, 46, 47, 49 and 53]. Order in Council 702/2021, approved and ordered December 13, 2021.

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.

— G. HEYMAN, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy ; H. BAINS, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Appendix

Section 1 (2) of the Greenhouse Gas 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 ".

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 accredited verification body, a member of the International Accreditation Forum, or

(

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

Section 30 is amended

(

a) by adding the following subsection

(1.1) Despite

section 2 [effect of amendments] , the verification process described in subsection (1) is not required to comply with amendments to ISO 14064-3 until required to do so by the member of the 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 ".

Section 31 is amended

(

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

(2) A verification body must not provide a statement 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 misstatements do not result in a net overstatement or understatement that exceeds the lesser of

(i) 1 000 tonnes CO2e, not including reporting-only emissions,

(ii) 1% of the total emissions attributable 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 subparagraph (

i) or (ii). ,

(

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 misstatements 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 misstatements in the emission report.

Schedule A is amended by adding the 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:

Emissions = Σ(EF × Coal)

where

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

6 Table 1 of

Schedule 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 using 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 electrowinning process, also known as SX-EW. , and

(

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 ".

7 Table 2 of

Schedule 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 ".

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

(m 3 /h)

Bleed

study

(m 3 /h)

Low

emission

retrofitted

devices

only

(m 3 /h)

Equivalent decives

Pressure controllers

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

Fisher C1

0.1100

Fisher 4660

0.1600

Fisher 4660A

Level controllers

Fisher 2500

0.6950

Fisher 2680

0.6150

Fisher 268T

Fisher 2900

0.3903

Fisher 2900A

Fisher 2901

Fisher 2901A

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

Norriseal 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

SOR 1530

0.7100

SOR 1530B

SOR 1530B-G2A-C-J0-PS-CV

SOR 1530C

SOR 1530C-G2A-C-J0-PS-CV

Transducers

Fisher i2P-100

0.7200

0.0922

Fisher i2p100

Fisher ITP100

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) .

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