For the 2008 reporting year, over 8700 facilities reported to the NPRI on more than 3000 listed substances. Comprehensive air pollutant emission summaries and trends were compiled by Environment Canada for criteria air contaminants (the main pollutants contributing to smog, acid rain, and/or poor air quality), selected heavy metals, and persistent organic pollutants.
National Pollution Release Inventory
The NPRI is Canada's legislated, publicly-accessible inventory of pollutant releases (to air, water and land), disposals, and transfers for recycling. The NPRI comprises:
- Information reported by facilities and published by Environment Canada under the authority of Sections 46-50 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA 1999); and
- Comprehensive emission summaries and trends for key air pollutants, based on facility-reported data and emission estimates from other sources such as motor vehicles, residential heating, forest fires and agriculture.
Gandalf can screen your company to see if you are required to report under the National Pollution Release Inventory (NPRI) program, and can prepare and submit the NPRI reports, if necessary.
