Understanding Environmental Regulations
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Understanding Environmental Regulations Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
To review the current environmental regulations, their implications for various sectors, and their application to processes and projects.
Who Should Attend?
- Environmental managers, coordinators, engineers, and scientists, and other personnel from environmental as well as from health and safety and environmental departments
- Corporate/project managers
- Directors and officers
- Facility managers
- Plant superintendents
- In-house counsel
- Consultants
- Regulatory personnel at the federal and provincial levels
- Municipal personnel responsible for environmental management, waste management, and sewage
Course Outlines:
Welcome, Introduction, Workshop Preview, Learning Outcomes, and Assessment Method
Introduction: Constitutional law, division of powers for environmental matters
Project Assessment and Approvals
- Registration and Coffee
- Laws, regulations, codes, and guidelines
- Environmental Assessment
- The Environmental Assessment Act
- Key definitions
- Inclusions and exclusions
- Triggers
- Project scoping and tracking
- The provincial EA process
- Applications to projects
Environmental Assessment Project Scoping Exerc
Environmental Assessment: Technical Aspects
- Required studies and information
- Problems and pitfalls
- Application to Projects
- Provincial Permitting Requirements
- Overview of the provincial regulatory scheme
- Environmental acts and regulations
- Standards, guidelines, and codes of practice
- The permit process: problems and pitfalls
Specific Regulation of Air, Water, Waste, and Soil
Regulation of Air Quality: Federal and Provincial Regulation
- Air quality management
- Comprehensive air quality management system (CAMS/AQMS) and implications
- Environmental emergencies
- Dealing with nuisance issues
Regulation of Air Quality: Technical Issues
- Impact, risk assessment, and cumulative effects
- Planning for abatement
- Case study
Regulating Water Quality I: The Fisheries Act
- Protection of water resources and fish habitat
- The Fisheries Act
- HADD
- What is fish habitat, project review, information requirements, mitigation and compensation
- Implications of potential changes to the Fisheries Act
- The Metal Mining Effluent Regulations
- EC’s Environmental Code of Practice for Metal Mines
- Cases, sentences, and other news from the “trenches”
Regulating Water Quality II: Provincial Water Quality Regulation
- Applicable provincial legislation
- Sewer by-laws
- Pollution prevention
- Management strategies
- Technical Issues: Water and Waste Water
- Continuation of Part II: Specific Regulation of Air, Water, Waste, and Soil
- Water and wastewater
- Characterization and limits
- Water quality guidance
- Chemicals Management
- The Environmental Protection Act, 1999
- Regulation of toxic substances, export and import
- Chemicals management
- Regulating Soil Quality
- Soil quality guidelines (CCME and Provincial)
- Generic vs. site-specific remediation criteria
- Requirements for site assessment
- Contaminated Sites and Asset Transfer
- Applicable legislation
- Update on contaminated property and industrial sites
- Liabilities and opportunities
- Requirements for remediation
- Case study
- Regulation of Waste and Hazardous Waste
- Definitions of hazardous waste (provincial and extra-provincial)
- Provincial general waste management requirements
- Managing categories of special wastes (rechargeable batteries, pesticide containers, e-wastes, waste oil and filters, waste paint)
- Status of provincial waste reduction and wast