Lafarge Canada Inc. - Environmental Compliance Approval (air)

Instrument type: Environmental Compliance Approval (air)

ERO number
019-7822
Ministry reference number
3896-CV2KN4
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Posted by
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Notice stage
Decision
Decision posted
Comment period
October 27, 2023 - December 11, 2023 (45 days) Closed
Last updated

This consultation was open from:
October 27, 2023
to December 11, 2023

Decision summary

We issued an Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility for all new or historically unapproved sources for all emissions from Lafarge Canada Inc., a cement grinding facility, located in Algoma Mills, Ontario.

Location details

Site address

3136A Highway 17
The North Shore Township, ON
Canada

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Proponent(s)

Lafarge Canada Inc.
1651 Bearbrook Road
Ottawa, ON
K1G 3K2
Canada

Decision details

We issued Environmental Compliance Approval number 4411-D7BNCX, dated July 29, 2024, to Lafarge Canada Inc., for their cement grinding facility located at 3136A Highway 17 in the community of Algoma Mills, Ontario.

An Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility Mobile replaces all current Environmental Compliance Approvals for air at this facility and includes the addition of new or historically unapproved sources for all emissions from Lafarge Canada Inc.

The Approval includes all sources at the facility, including a mill grinding system, consisting of a roller-press, ball mill and a high efficiency separator, served by one baghouse dust collector, one baghouse dust collector, serving the New Cement Silos, one baghouse dust collector, serving the South Portland Cement Silo, one baghouse dust collector, serving the North Portland Cement Silo, and a natural gas fired material handling, all operating with a Facility Production Limit of 337,260 tonnes of slag per year.

Emissions to the air from this facility include:

  • particulate matter
  • calcium oxide
  • respirable crystalline silica
  • nitrogen oxides and other products of combustion

The Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility 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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Client Services and Permissions Branch
Address

135 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 1
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

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How to Appeal

This instrument decision can be appealed. You have 15 days from August 2, 2024 to begin the appeal process.

Carefully review the information below to learn more about the appeal process.

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Start the process to appeal

If you’re an Ontario resident, you can start the process to appeal this instrument decision.

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)

Issuing authority
Nancy Orpana
Manager, Air Approvals

Environmental Permissions Branch
135 St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

(613) 484-2675

Proponent(s)

Lafarge Canada Inc.
1651 Bearbrook Road
Ottawa, ON
K1G 3K2
Canada


Appellate body

Registrar, Ontario Land Tribunal
655 Bay Street, Suite 1500
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca

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Include the following:

ERO number
019-7822
Ministry reference number
3896-CV2KN4

This is not legal advice. Please refer to the Environmental Bill of Rights for exact legal requirements. Consult a lawyer if you need help with the appeal process.

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Original proposal

ERO number
019-7822
Ministry reference number
3896-CV2KN4
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Posted by
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Proposal posted

Comment period

October 27, 2023 - December 11, 2023 (45 days)

Proposal details

This proposal is for an Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility Mobile (air & noise) which replaces all the current Environmental Compliance Approvals for air at this facility and includes the addition of new or historically unapproved sources for all emissions from Lafarge Canada Inc., a cement grinding facility, located in Algoma Mills, Ontario.

The application includes all sources at the facility, including a mill grinding system, consisting of a roller-press, ball mill and a high efficiency separator, served by one baghouse dust collector, one baghouse dust collector, serving the New Cement Silos, one baghouse dust collector, serving the South Portland Cement Silo, one baghouse dust collector, serving the North Portland Cement Silo, and a natural gas fired material handeling, all operating with a Facility Production Limit of 337, 260 tonnes of slag per year.

Emissions to the air from this facility include:

  • particulate matter
  • calcium oxide
  • respirable crystalline silica
  • nitrogen oxides and other products of combustion

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.

Supporting materials

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Some supporting materials may not be available online. If this is the case, you can request to view the materials in person.

Get in touch with the office listed below to find out if materials are available.

Client Services and Permissions Branch
Address

135 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 1
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

Office phone number

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This consultation was open from October 27, 2023
to December 11, 2023

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