Ministry of Environment

Reporting Regulation – Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Cap and Trade) Act

Key Definitions

Term Definition
"Reporting Operation" is:

(a) a single facility operation
(b) a linear facilities operation
that, during the reporting period, has a total amount of attributable greenhouse gas emissions that is greater than or equal to 10 000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, not including carbon dioxide produced from biomass listed in Schedule C.

Facility” includes:

(a) All buildings, structures, stationary items and equipment that

(i) Are located or used primarily on a single site, contiguous sites or adjacent sites;
(ii) Are managed or controlled by the same person, and
(iii) Function as a single integrated site,

(b) Wastewater collection and wastewater treatment  systems that treat waster from a facility, it the systems are on or adjacent to a site or sites referred to in paragraph (a) (i) and are managed or controlled by the person referred to in paragraph (a) (ii), and

(c) Mobile equipment , primarily used at the site or sites referred to in paragraph (a) (i), that functions as part of the integrated site;

"Single facility operation" means:

an operation that operates in a facility and carries out one or more activities listed in Table 1 of Schedule A, but does not include a linear facilities operation

"Linear facility operations" means:

all of the facilities within British Columbia that are managed or controlled by the same person and carry out one or more activities listed in column 2 of Table 2 in Schedule A

"Mobile equipment" includes:

(a) mobile equipment used for the on-site transportation or movement of substances, materials or products, and
(b) other mobile equivalent such as tractors, mobile cranes, log transfer equipment, mining machinery, graders, backhoes and bulldozers and other industrial equipment, but does not include an on road vehicle, an aircraft or marine vessel

(note: on road vehicle is defined in section 1 of the regulation)

Schedule C - Biomass Exclusions

Wood biomass, or the wood biomass component of mixed fuels, including
(a) wood residue within the meaning of the Forest Act
(b) wood-derived fuel and black liquor from pulp and paper production processes, and
(c) Woody matter from agricultural trimmings, tree thinning and orchard removals,
But not including wood biomass that fails to meet the criteria for carbon neutrality established by the jurisdiction in which it was produced, if any.