TERRAPURE BR LTD. - Environmental Compliance Approval (air)

This proposal is for an amendment to the Limited Operational Flexibility for an Environmental Compliance Approval (air & noise) No. A-500-1195263740 for TERRAPURE BR LTD., a secondary lead smelting and refining facility located in the City of Mississauga, Ontario.

The emission sources from the manufacturing and associated processes that discharge to the air include emission control equipment such as baghouse dust collectors and scrubbers; battery breaking operations; and combustion equipment such as furnances, kettles, and heaters. The amendment includes changing their approach to sulphur dioxide abatement on a furnace from the Circulating Dry Lime Scrubber (CDS) system and increasing the battery breaking throughout of the facility, up to 125,000 tonnes per year of batteries.

Emissions to the air from this facility include:

• nickel
• sulphuric acid
• iron
• lead, and
• noise

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.