Initiatives

Air

NCIA and several member companies are active participants on several air-related initiatives including the following:

Air Management Framework for the Capital Region

NCIA and industry companies alongwith our municipalities, Alberta Environment and other regional organizations are currently developing an Air Management Framework for the Capital Region, which will move the long-standing system of regulating individual facility emissions, to regulating on a regional basis.

Fort Air Partnership

NCIA supports the Fort Air Partnership (FAP) and provides the majority of FAP's funding with support from Alberta Environment and Alberta's Industrial Heartland Association.

Other Resources

• NCIA's Air Issues Brief (March 2009) that shares Industry's position on emissions when the region was expecting up to nine upgraders.
• NCIA's "Protecting Air Quality in the Heartland" Fact Sheet.
• Alberta NOx and SOx Control Technologies Symposium (April 2008): This one-day symposium, hosted by Alberta Finance & Enterprise in association with its partners was designed to provide an opportunity for participants to learn more about some of the latest NOx and SOx emission control technologies as well as to network with industry technology providers.  
• Real World Combustion Source Emissions Reduction
• Emission Reducing Technologies for Boilers & Steamers
• A Novel SO2 Scrubbing Process For Industrial SO2 Emission Control
  
• NOx Emissions Control from Industrial Boilers, Furnaces, and Gas Turbines
• Introduction to Peerless Mfg and SCR System Overview
• Emission Control Technologies for Airborne Pollutants
• State of the Art Controls for Particulate, SO2, SO3 and NOx
• Aspects of SOx Reduction
• How NOT to go Broke in the Heartland

Water

NCIA is involved in numerous initiatives that work towards managing industrial water use in the Heartland and Capital Region. This includes being an active member of the multi-stakeholder Water Steering Committee (and its various sub-committees) established to guide the implementation of the Water Management Framework for the Industrial Heartland.

NCIA has also been working with Alberta Environment for a number of years on Groundwater Management in the Industrial Heartland region.

To read our March 2009 Issues Brief on Water, please click here.

Land

There are a number of initiatives underway with respect to Land at the moment.  These include:

• Sulphur Management in the Industrial Heartland (NCIA members along with Alberta Environment and other regional stakeholders developed a sulphur management framework for the Industrial Heartland in November of 2009.
• Wetlands Policy.  NCIA and its members have expressed interest in participating with the province and other stakeholders to develop a Wetlands Policy for Alberta.

Noise

While industry is not the only source of noise, NCIA in collaboration with the ERCB have designed a regional approach to environmental noise management where all non-regulated and regulated NCIA member companies can participate in a regional solution to managing industry’s contribution to noise, specifically ensuring that industrial noise levels comply with the ERCB’s Noise Control Directive 038.

To learn more, click here.

Life in the Heartland

NCIA is one of the partners of Life in the Heartland, a centralized resource for residents looking for information related to industry development such as project updates, environment, transportation and/or emergency response information.