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Air Quality Breakfast Seminar Series: 2011/2012 Air Quality News Bulletin Summer 2011 Spring 2011 OH&S Bulletin Toronto s Environmental Reporting and Disclosure Bylaw: ChemTRAC Air Quality News Bulletin Winter 2011 November 2010 OH&S Bulletin Airzone One Seminar Series 2010-2011 Ontario Toxics Reduction Act (and O.Reg. 455/09) City of Toronto Reporting Bylaw.   ChemTRAC 2009 NPRI and O. Reg. 127 reporting …

Certificates of Approval (CofA) are permits regulating emissions of substances into the environment and are required by law in Ontario.   This includes emissions from stacks such as combustion gases or by-products of venting industrial processes.   Also included is the venting of combustion gases from heating units for plants or major residential and office complexes. CofA permits must be …

Provincial News “ Amendments to O. Reg. 419 CofA Regulation In June 2006, the OME posted a proposal to amend the regulation covering CofA applications, O. Reg. 419 (see Summer 2006 Bulletin) with a comment period extending to Sept., 2006.   The OME revised and re-posted updated amendments in April, 2007 with a comment period that lasted until May 7th. …

Ontario Provincial News Permitting Standards and Background Concentrations In the Fall of 2008 the Ontario courts upheld the right of neighbours to appeal the granting of an air emissions permit (Certificate of Approval, CofA) to Lafarge.   The permit would have allowed operation of proposed municipal waste and tire-burning at the Bath, Ontario cement kiln.   A major point of …

Dr. Di-Giovanni, Airzone One s Senior Modeler and Manager for the CFIA Project Airzone One staff has begun work on a contract for the Plant Biosafety Office of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to develop a dispersal simulation model for plant pollen released into the air.   The CFIA is the government agency that regulates agricultural and silvicultural release …

Beginning on June 30th 2004, the permissible occupational exposure limits for 4 substances outlined in Ontario Regulation 833 “ Control of Exposures to Biological or Chemical Agents will be reduced considerably.   In concurrence with the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienist (ACGIH) exposure limits, the Ministry of Labour has approved a proposal to reduce the time-weighted average exposure values …

Many manufactured products, especially consumer products, emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) producing various smells and raising concerns about the effects of exposures to product emissions or to indoor air quality during use of the products or materials. The proposed Federal Bill C-30 now includes indoor air under the Federal Environmental Protection Act.   As a result, the Federal government may …

As a manufacturer of equipment for business and industry that sells to the Ontario market it is important to be aware of the legal responsibilities imposed upon your customers when they purchase your equipment.   The province of Ontario requires that all new and existing equipment or structures that emit substances to the atmosphere have a Certificate of Approval for …

This is an information bulletin to describe the air pollution control implications of power blackouts.   This has been produced for all of Airzone One s contacts in response to a number of queries from our clients. This refers to situations where industrial processes may still continue to cause airborne emissions (e.g., coal-fired boilers, metal smelting) but where pollution control …