Traduction de «Rejets de production » (Français → Anglais) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 465 Ms. Elizabeth May: With regard to the Nuclear Liability and Compensation Act enacted as part of Bill C-22, with particular reference to the government's decision to increase the absolute liability amount and mandatory insurance coverage for nuclear operators to $1 billion: (a) has the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) asked Ontario Power Generation whether removing the cap on operator liability, while maintaining the level of absolute liability and mandatory insurance coverage required under the Act at $1 billion, would increase its generation costs and, if so, what were the details of the response, including the estimated increased cost-per-kWh; (b) has the DNR asked Bruce Power whether removing the ca ...[+++]p on operator liability, while maintaining the level of absolute liability and mandatory insurance coverage required under the Act at $1 billion, would increase its generation costs and, if so, what were the details of the response, including the estimated increased cost-per-kWh; (c) has the DNR asked New Brunswick Power whether removing the cap on operator liability, while maintaining the level of absolute liability and mandatory insurance coverage, would increase its generation costs and, if so, what were the details of the response, including the estimated increased cost-per-kWh; (d) in the scenario in which the limit on reactor liability is removed while the mandatory insurance coverage and absolute liability of the operator remain at $1 billion, what is the DNR's estimate of the impacts that removing the cap on liability would have on provincial electricity rates, (i) what additional impacts would there be if the mandatory insurance coverage and absolute liability of the operator were increased to $1.5 billion, all other things being equal, (ii) what would the additional impacts be if the mandatory insurance coverage and absolute liability of the operator were increased to $2 billion, all other things being equal; (e) does ...

Two types of liability are involved: strict liability where operators are bound to remedy environmental damage they have caused even if they are not at fault (this concerns a number of dangerous activities listed in the directive, including the release of pollutants into water, sea or into the air, industrial and agricultural activities requiring permits under the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive, waste management operations, the production, storage, use and release of dangerous chemicals, and the transport, use a ...[+++]nd release of genetically modified organisms); and fault-based liability for other professional activities, where operators must be proved to be at fault before they are obliged to remedy environmental damage.

This energy production is the difference between the enthalpy of the fluid produced in the production borehole and that of the fluid eventually disposed of.

Releases are reported when the level of emissions exceeds a certain threshold and originates from one of the 65 activities listed in Annex I. The majority of these activities are also regulated under the Directive on industrial emissions and comprises, in particular, the establishments covered by the following sectors: energy production, mineral industry, chemical industry, waste and wastewater management, and paper and wood production and processing.

The Convention provides a framework, based on the precautionary principle, for elimination of production, use, import and export of the initial 12 priority Persistent Organic Pollutants, their safe handling and disposal and elimination or reduction of releases of certain unintentional Persistent Organic Pollutants.

Minority productions sustained a higher rejection rate than in the past couple of years, but not a higher rejection rate than for the total universe of CTF productions (1110) [Translation] Upon request of the committee, the CTF prepared statistics drawn from its last complete fiscal year, that is 2002-2003.