Safety-Kleen Canada Inc. - Environmental Compliance Approval (air)

Instrument type: Environmental Compliance Approval (air)

ERO number
026-0727
Ministry reference number
4094-DU3JZR
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Posted by
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Notice stage
Proposal
Proposal posted
Comment period
July 10, 2026 - August 24, 2026 (45 days) Open
Last updated

This consultation closes at 11:59 p.m. on:
August 24, 2026

Proposal summary

Amendment to the Limited Operational Flexibility for an Environmental Compliance Approval (air & noise) No. 0923-C7HLEU for Safety-Kleen Canada Inc., an oil re-refining facility that is located in the Township of Woolwich, Ontario.

Location details

Site address

300 Woolwich Street South
Woolwich, ON
N0B 1M0
Canada

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Proponent(s)

Safety-Kleen Canada Inc.
300 Woolwich St S
Woolwich, ON
N0B 1M0
Canada

Proposal details

This proposal is for an amendment to the Limited Operational Flexibility for an Environmental Compliance Approval (air & noise) No.0923-C7HLEU for Safety-Kleen Canada Inc., an oil re-refining facility that is located in the Township of Woolwich, Ontario.

The emission sources from the manufacturing and associated processes that discharge to the air include thermal oxidizer, furnace, heaters, tanks, flare, fume hoods, boilers, cooling towers, bioscrubber, as well as any other equipment and ancillary and support processes and activities.

The amendment includes increasing the facility's processing capacity from 245 million litres per year of oily waste to 325 million litres per year, adding a new wet film evaporator/votator, and obtaing approval for approve an asphalt closed loop system.

Emissions to the air from this facility include:

  • sulfur dioxide
  • total reduced sulphur
  • nitrogen oxides
  • 1,1,2-trichloroethane
  • benzene
  • hydrogen chloride
  • ammonia, and
  • carbon monoxide

The Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility (air), when issued, permits modifications to the facility subject to limits on operational flexibility that include a production limit for the facility to be specified on the Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility (air). The Limited Operational Flexibility conditions have an expiry date. The company will be required to make an application for amendment at that time to renew these conditions.

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