Southgate Renewables GP Inc., as general partner for and on behalf of Southgate Renewables LP - Environmental Compliance Approval (waste)

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Type d'acte: Environmental Compliance Approval (waste)

Numéro du REO
019-8406
Numéro de référence du ministère
5486-CYWHYH
Type d'avis
Instrument
Loi
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Affiché par
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Étape de l'avis
Décision
Décision publiée
Période de consultation
Du 18 mars 2024 au 2 mai 2024 (45 jours) Fermé
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du 18 mars 2024
au 2 mai 2024

Résumé de la décision

We issued an amendment to the multimedia Environmental Compliance Approval No. 1984-BD9NBD for Southgate Renewables GP Inc., as general partner for and on behalf of Southgate Renewables LP, operating an anaerobic digestion facility located at 100 Eco-Park Way, in the Township of Southgate, Grey County, Ontario.

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Adresse du site

100 Eco-Park Way
Southgate, ON
Canada

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Promoteur(s)

Southgate Renewables GP Inc., as general partner for and on behalf of Southgate Renewables LP
77 King Street West, Suite 3000
P.O. Box 95
Toronto, ON
M5K 1G8
Canada

Détails de la décision

On January 24, 2025, we issued an amendment to the multimedia Environmental Compliance Approval to Southgate Renewables GP Inc., as general partner for and on behalf of Southgate Renewables LP, for an anaerobic digestion facility located at 100 Eco-Park Way, Township of Southgate, Grey County, Ontario.

The following amendments to the site have been approved:

  1. Acquisition of additional land adjacent to the original site in 2022 to increase of the site area to 4.0 hectares.
  2. Service area expanded to include the Province of Ontario and the States of New York, Michigan, and Ohio.
  3. Hours of operation for the reception of organic residuals and transfer of digestate at the facility will be Monday to Friday from 6 am to 10 pm, and Saturday from 7 am to 4 pm.
  4. Process modifications as follows:
    • Increased maximum daily waste receipt rate to 700 tonnes/day (no change to average waste receipt rate of 200 tonnes/day and maximum annual waste receipt rate of 73,000 tonnes/year)
    • Focusing on receipt of source separated organic waste
    • Addition of process water to generate a pumpable slurry
    • Use of a biofilter in the organics receiving building instead of an activated carbon filter
    • Addition of natural gas boilers
  5. Site modifications as follows:
    • Building layout changes to streamline the reception of organic waste
    • Increase in tipping floor size to temporarily store a maximum of 400 tonnes of solid organic waste within the organics receiving building tipping floor, at any one time
    • Modifications to tank sizes including secondary containment ultimately increasing the maximum volume of liquid waste (unprocessed, in-process and processed waste) stored in tanks (outdoors and inside the organics receiving building) to 16,663 cubic meters, at any one time
    • Increase the volume of solid digestate stored inside the organics receiving building to a maximum of 140 cubic metres, at any one time
    • Increase the temporary storage of solid residual waste stored inside the organics receiving building to a maximum of 140 cubic metres, at any one time
    • Addition of a process water storage tank inside the organics receiving building storing up to a maximum of 40 cubic metres of process water, at any one time
    • Addition of a bay door to construct four (4) bay doors
    • Removal of outdoor storage of agricultural residues
    • Use of double membrane instead of single membrane to cover the outdoor tank farm

Refer to ERO # 019-8468 for the air/noise posting and ERO # 019-8170 for the sewage posting.

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Owen Sound District Office
Address

101 17th Street East
Floor 3
Owen Sound, ON
N4K 0A5
Canada

Office phone number
Client Services and Permissions Branch
Address

135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

Office phone number

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First, you’ll need to seek leave (i.e. get permission) from the relevant appellate body to appeal the decision.

If the appellate body grants leave, the appeal itself will follow.

Seek leave to appeal

To seek leave to appeal, you need to do these three things:

  1. prepare your application
  2. provide notice to the minister
  3. mail your application to three parties

1. Prepare your application

You’ll need to prepare an application. You may wish to include the following things in your application:

  1. A document that includes:
    • your name, phone number, fax number (if any), and/or email address
    • the ERO number and ministry reference number (located on this page)
    • a statement about whether you are a resident in Ontario
    • your interest in the decision, and any facts you want taken into account in deciding whether you have an interest in the decision
    • the parts of the instrument that you’re challenging
    • whether the decision could result in significant harm to the environment
    • the reason(s) why you believe that no reasonable person – having regard to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind – could have made the decision
    • the grounds (facts) you’ll be using to appeal
    • the outcome you’d like to see
  2. A copy of the instrument (approval, permit, order) that you you are seeking leave to appeal. You’ll find this in the decision notice on the Environmental Registry
  3. Copies of all supporting documents, facts and evidence that you’ll be using to appeal
What is considered

The appeal body will consider the following two questions in deciding whether to grant you leave to appeal:

  1. is there is good reason to believe that no reasonable person, with respect to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind, could have made the decision?
  2. could the decision you wish to appeal result in significant harm to the environment?

2. Provide your notice

You’ll need to provide notice to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks that you’re seeking leave to appeal.

In your notice, please include a brief description of the:

  • decision that you wish to appeal
  • grounds for granting leave to appeal

You can provide notice by email at minister.mecp@ontario.ca or by mail at:

College Park 5th Floor, 777 Bay St.
Toronto, ON
M7A 2J3

3. Mail your application

You’ll need to mail your application that you prepared in step #1 to each of these three parties:

  • appellate body
  • issuing authority (the ministry official who issued the instrument)
  • proponent (the company or individual to whom the instrument was issued)

Autorité compétente
Mohsen Keyvani
Manager

Environmental Assessment and Permissions Branch
135 St Clair Avenue West
Floor 1
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

416-432-7253

Proponent(s)

Southgate Renewables GP Inc., as general partner for and on behalf of Southgate Renewables LP
77 King Street West, Suite 3000
P.O. Box 95
Toronto, ON
M5K 1G8
Canada


Organe d’appel

Registrar, Ontario Land Tribunal
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Toronto, Ontario
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(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca

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Numéro du REO
019-8406
Numéro de référence du ministère
5486-CYWHYH

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Proposition initiale

Numéro du REO
019-8406
Numéro de référence du ministère
5486-CYWHYH
Type d'avis
Instrument
Loi
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Affiché par
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Proposition affichée

Période de consultation

18 mars 2024 - 2 mai 2024 (45 days)

Détails de la proposition

This proposal is for an amendment to the multimedia Environmental Compliance Approval No. 1984-BD9NBD for Southgate Renewables GP Inc., as general partner for and on behalf of Southgate Renewables LP.

The anaerobic digester facility is located at 100 Eco-Park Way, Township of Southgate, Grey County, Ontario, on a 4-hectare area site. The facility will be using organic residuals from source separated organics, industrial, commercial, institutional commercial and industrial food waste materials, and a blend of agricultural materials such as (energy crops) silage, stover, culled material from vegetable and tuber crops and animal manure to produce renewable natural gas for injection into the natural gas grid, and digestate (organic fertilizer) crop nutrients to local farms.

The service area will be the Province of Ontario and the States of New York, Michigan, and Ohio. The maximum daily waste received will be 700 tonnes of non-hazardous waste and 700 cubic metres of other liquid waste, and the maximum on-site storage capacity will be 400 tonnes of non-hazardous solid waste and 480 cubic metres of other liquid waste.

The facility is currently permitted to process up to 73,000 tonnes of waste annually. The anaerobic digester will operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and the hours of operation for the reception of organic residuals at the facility will be Monday to Friday from 6 am to 10 pm, and Saturday from 6 am to 4 pm.

This amendment requests approval for the revised facility layout, which will include minor process changes made necessary by the acquisition of additional land adjacent to the original site in 2022. These changes include:

  • a biofilter for improved odour control
  • changes in tank and combined heat and power sizes
  • the use of process water and double membrane roofs
  • the addition of boilers

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Client Services and Permissions Branch
Address

135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

Office phone number

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