| FIVE-YEAR POLLUTION PREVENTION
PLAN IN BRITISH COLUMBIA RENEWED |
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Business
Group: Primary Metal
Region: North America |
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The Pollution Prevention (P2) Plan applicable
to the Kitimat smelter for 1999-2004 was voluntarily developed
with extensive input from a multi-stakeholder Public Advisory
Committee. It included 15 pollution-reduction opportunities
(such as reducing spent potlining generation or GHG emissions),
and 12 information gaps (issues to be documented included
the level of emissions and potential impacts of contaminants).
The intent of the P2 Plan was to exceed regulatory compliance
by reducing or eliminating pollutants at source.
The approach has been successful. Action has been taken with
respect to all 15 pollution-reduction opportunities, with
improvements reached in eight cases and on target to achieve
another two beyond 2004. Actions to address 10 of the 12 information
gaps have been successfully completed.
Through the implementation of the P2 Plan, Alcan's B.C. operations
obtained the multimedia environmental permit – the first
such permit to be issued in British Columbia, and still one
of the few that exist. A renewed P2 Plan is being developed
for the period 2005-2009. It will cover all Alcan B.C.'s operations.
Pollution-reduction opportunities and information gaps remaining
from the first five-year period will be included.
Alcan operations are seen by public authorities and community
stakeholders as being conducted in a very responsible manner
with respect to the protection of the environment. This contributes
to public acceptance as well as renewal of permits by the
public authorities.
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