Verification, exceptions for 2017 reports
 26. (1) Section 7.6 does not apply in respect of, (a) a person who is required to prepare a 2017 report under section 5, if the report is solely in respect of specified Table 2 activities; or (b) a person who is required to prepare a 2017 report under section 6. O. Reg. 398/15, s. 12. (2) No verification is required to be conducted for the purposes of this Regulation in respect of any portion of a 2017 report that sets out quantifications relating to specified Table 2 activities. O. Reg. 398/15, s. 12. TABLE 1   GreenhousE Gases and GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIALS Item   Column 1 Common Name of Greenhouse Gas   Column 2 Chemical Formula   Column 3 Chemical Name   Column 4 Chemical Abstract Service Registry No.   Column 5 Global Warming Potential 

  1.   Carbon dioxide    CO2    Carbon dioxide   124-38-9   1 

  2.   Methane    CH4    Methane   74-82-8   21 

  3.   Nitrous oxide    N2O   Nitrous oxide   10024-97-2   310 

  4.   Sulfur hexafluoride    SF6   Sulfur hexafluoride   2551-62-4   23,900 

  5.   Nitrogen trifluoride   NF3   Nitrogen trifluoride   7783-54-2   17,200 

  6.   HFC-23    CHF3    Trifluoromethane   75-46-7   11,700 

  7.   HFC-32    CH2F2   Difluoromethane   75-10-5   650 

  8.   HFC-41    CH3F   Fluoromethane   593-53-3   150 

  9.   HFC-43-10mee    C5H2F10   1,1,1,2,3,4,4,5,5,5- Decafluoropentane   138495-42-8   1,300 

  10.   HFC-125    C2HF5    Pentafluoroethane   354-33-6   2,800 

  11.   HFC-134    C2H2F4   1,1,2,2-Tetrafluoroethane   359-35-3   1,000 

  12.   HFC-134a    C2H2F4   1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane   811-97-2   1,300 

  13.   HFC-143    C2H3F3   1,1,2-Trifluoroethane   430-66-0   300 

  14.   HFC-143a    C2H3F3   1,1,1-Trifluoroethane   420-46-2   3,800 

  15.   HFC-152   C2H4F2   1,2-Difluoroethane   624-72-6   43 

  16.   HFC-152a    C2H4F2   1,1-Difluoroethane   75-37-6   140 

  17.   HFC-161    C2H5F   Fluoroethane   353-36-6   12 

  18.   HFC-227ea    C3HF7   1,1,1,2,3,3,3- Heptafluoropropane   431-89-0   2,900 

  19.   HFC-236cb    C3H2F6   1,1,1,2,2,3-Hexafluoropropane   677-565   1,300 

  20.   HFC-236ea    C3H2F6   1,1,1,2,3,3-Hexafluoropropane   431-63-0   1,200 

  21.   HFC-236fa    C3H2F6   1,1,1,3,3,3-Hexafluoropropane   690-39-1   6,300 

  22.   HFC-245ca    C3H3F5   1,1,2,2,3-Pentafluoropropane   679-86-7   560 

  23.   HFC-245fa    C3H3F5   1,1,1,3,3-Pentafluoropropane   460-73-1   950 

  24.   HFC-365mfc    C4H5F5   1,1,1,3,3-Pentafluorobutane   406-58-6   890 

  25.   Perfluoromethane   CF4   Tetrafluoromethane   75-73-0   6,500 

  26.   Perfluoroethane    C2F6    Hexafluoroethane   76-16-4   9,200 

  27.   Perfluoropropane    C3F8   Octafluoropropane   76-19-7   7,000 

  28.   Perfluorobutane    C4F10    Decafluorobutane   355-25-9   7,000 

  29.   Perfluorocyclobutane    c-C4F8   Octafluorocyclobutane   115-25-3   8,700 

  30.   Perfluoropentane    C5F12    Dodecafluoropentane   678-26-2   7,500 

  31.   Perfluorohexane    C6F14    Tetradecafluorohexane   355-42-0   7,400 O. Reg. 493/10, s. 6; O. Reg. 398/15, s. 13. Table 2   Table 2 activities Item   Column 1 Activity   Column 2 Description of activity 

  1.   Adipic acid production.   The production of adipic acid using oxidation. 

  2.   Ammonia production.   The production of ammonia through the reaction of nitrogen with hydrogen that has been produced by one of the following: 1. Steam hydrocarbon reforming. 2. Gasification of solid or liquid raw material. 

  3.   Carbonate use.   The use of one or more carbonates in a production process, excluding the following: 1. The use of carbonates or minerals that contain carbonate for producing cement, copper, nickel, ferroalloys, glass, iron, steel, lead, lime, phosphoric acid, pulp and paper, soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, sodium hydroxide or zinc. 2. The use of carbonates in sorbent technology used to control emissions from general stationary combustion equipment and electricity generation equipment. 

  4.   Cement production.   The production of Portland, masonry, pozzolanic or any other hydraulic cement. 

  5.   Coal storage.   The storage of coal at a facility that combusts coal. 

  6.   Copper and nickel production.   The production of one or both of copper and nickel through smelting, refining and solvent extraction-electrowinning, using one or more of the following processes: 1. Removal of impurities from nickel or copper ore concentrate using carbonate flux reagents. 2. The use of reducing agents, including metallurgical coke, coal or natural gas, to extract metals from their oxides. 3. The use of material, including coke, for slag cleaning. 4. The release of carbon from metal ores. 5. The consumption of graphite or carbon electrodes in electric arc furnaces. 

  7.   Electricity generation.   The operation of any combustion device, including a cogeneration (combined heat and power) device, that combusts solid, liquid or gaseous fuel for the purpose of producing electricity, excluding the following: 1. The operation of stationary emergency generators with a nameplate generating capacity of less than 10 MW. 2. The operation of portable emergency generators. 

  8.   Ferroalloy production.   The production of ferrochromium, ferromanganese, ferromolybdenum, ferronickel, ferrosilicon, ferrotitanium, ferrotungsten, ferrovanadium, silicomanganese or silicon metal using pyrometallurgical techniques. 

  9.   General stationary combustion.   The combustion of solid, liquid, or gaseous fuel or combustible material using general stationary combustion equipment for one or more of the following purposes: 1. Producing electricity. 2. Generating steam or providing useful heat or energy for industrial, commercial or institutional use. 3. Pollution control. 4. Reduction of waste volume. 

  10.   Glass production.   The production of flat glass, container glass, pressed and blown glass or wool fiberglass using one or more glass melting furnaces to melt a mixture of raw materials, excluding production in an experimental furnace or a research and development process unit. 

  11.   HCFC-22 production and HFC-23 destruction.   The production of HCFC-22 from chloroform and hydrogen fluoride and any process in which HFC-23 is destroyed. 

  12.   Hydrogen production.   The production of hydrogen gas using steam hydrocarbon reforming, partial oxidation of hydrocarbons or other transformation of hydrocarbon feedstock. 

  13.   Iron and steel production.   The production of iron or steel, which may include the processing of taconite iron ore and the production of metallurgical coke. 

  14.   Lead production.   One of the following: 1. The production of lead by sintering, smelting or direct smelting of lead concentrates. 2. The secondary production or recycling of lead. 

  15.   Lime production.   The production of a lime product using calcination of limestone or other highly calcareous materials, including dolomite, aragonite, chalk, coral, marble or shell, but excluding production at a kraft pulp mill, soda pulp mill, sulfite pulp mill or a facility that only processes sludge containing calcium carbonate from water softening processes. 

  16.   Magnesium production.   The production of magnesium metal or products containing magnesium through one of the following: 1. Smelting. 2. Refining. 3. Re-melting. 4. Use of molten magnesium to produce alloys or products containing magnesium through casting, drawing, extruding, forming or rolling operations. 

  17.   Nitric acid production.   The production of nitric acid that is 30 to 70 per cent in strength using the catalytic oxidation of ammonia. 

  18.   Operation of equipment for a transmission system or a distribution system (electricity).   The operation of equipment for the purposes of a transmission system or a distribution system. 

  19.   Operation of equipment related to natural gas.   The operation of equipment related to any of the following: 1. Onshore natural gas transmission compression. 2. Natural gas storage. 3. Liquefied natural gas import and export. 4. Transport of natural gas in a pipeline transportation system. 

  20.   Petrochemical production.   The production of petrochemicals, including acrylonitrile, carbon black, propylene, ethylene, ethylene dichloride, ethylene oxide and methanol, from feedstocks derived from petroleum or from petroleum and liquefied natural gas, excluding the following: 1. The production of petrochemicals where petrochemicals are produced as a by-product. 2. The production of ethylene dichloride through a direct chlorination process that is operated independently of an oxychlorination process. 3. The production of a petrochemical from biomass feedstock. 

  21.   Petroleum refining.   The production of any product through the distillation of crude oil or the redistillation, cracking, rearrangement or reforming of unfinished petroleum derivatives. 

  22.   Phosphoric acid production.   The production of phosphoric acid from phosphate rock and acid. 

  23.   Primary aluminum production.   The production of aluminum using the Hall-Héroult process, electrolysis in prebake and Søderberg cells or anode baking in prebake cells, excluding production using experimental cells or research and development process units. 

  24.   Pulp and paper production.   The production of market pulp or pulp and paper at a facility that has chemical recovery, semi-chemical recovery and lime kilns. 

  25.   Refinery fuel gas use.   The use of any combustion device that combusts refinery fuel gas separately or in combination with any type of gas or uses refinery fuel gas as a chemical feedstock. 

  26.   Soda ash production.   The production of soda ash using a production line to carry out calcining of trona or sodium sesquicarbonate or to directly produce carbon dioxide through the use of a liquid alkaline feedstock process. 

  27.   Zinc production.   The primary production of zinc using electro-thermic distillation, pyrometallurgical processing or electrolytic processing or the secondary production of zinc. O. Reg. 398/15, s. 14.