This consultation was open from:
June 13, 2025
to July 28, 2025
Decision summary
An amended Environmental Compliance Approval was issued to Jungbunzlauer Canada Inc. (JBL) for approval of upgrades to the existing works and the establishment of stormwater management works to service JBL’s Mixed Products Campus located at 1555 Elm Street, in the City of Port Colborne, Regional Municipality of Niagara.
Location details
Site address
1555 Elm Street
Port Colborne ,
ON
Canada
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Jungbunzlauer Canada Inc.
1555 Elm Street
Port Colborne ,
ON
L3K 5V5
Canada
Decision details
An amended Environmental Compliance Approval was issued to Jungbunzlauer Canada Inc. (JBL) for approval of upgrades to the existing works for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of process water, once-through non-contact cooling water and stormwater runoff from JBL’s Mixed Products Campus which includes the fermented products production plant producing the fully biodegradable food additive Xanthan Gum (JBL Xanthan Gum Plant), the Citric Acid production facility (JBL Citric Acid Plant), and the corn derived various sugar and food products manufacturing facility (JBL Glucose Plant) and the establishment of stormwater management Works for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of stormwater runoff from a catchment area of approximately 21.8 hectares to service the JBL Xanthan Gum Plant facility portion on the JBL site, to service JBL’s Mixed Products Campus located at 1555 Elm Street, in the City of Port Colborne, Regional Municipality of Niagara.
The treated final effluent/combined flow from JBL’s Mixed Products Campus (JBL Glucose Plant, JBL Citric Acid Plant, and JBL Xanthan Gum Plant) will discharge during the summer period up to 555,000 cubic metres per day and during the winter period up to 281,670 cubic metres per day to the Welland Canal.
The approved stormwater management works located within the JBL Xanthan Gum Plant portion of the site will discharge to the existing Municipal (City of Port Colborne) drainage ditch located east of the JBL Xanthan Gum Plant facility and ultimately to the Welland Canal.
The amended Environmental Compliance Approval approved an increase of the rated capacity of the treated process water discharge from JBL’s mixed product campus from the existing maximum one-day discharge rate of 35,000 cubic metres per day to 45,000 cubic metres per day, an increase of the annual daily average flow 28,000 cubic metres per day to 35,000 cubic metres per day and an increase of the discharge of once-through non-contact cooling water from up to 2.70 cubic metres per second to 6.02 cubic metres per second.
The approved additional works to the existing JBL Citric Acid Plant Process Water Wastewater Treatment Plant to service the JBL's Phase 2 Expansion consist of the following:
- one anoxic selector tank;
- three aeration basins (AB7, AB8, and AB9), two operating and one as a maintenance spare;
- two 30 meters diameter secondary clarifiers (CL4 and CL5);
- one gravity sludge thickener (ST2); and
- one 1,200 millimetres diameter steel flow diffuser (D3) located next to the existing diffuser, operated in parallel with the existing diffuser
The approved stormwater management works to service the JBL Xanthan Gum Plant facility portion on the JBL site consist of the following:
- filter strips;
- one approximately 225 m long enhanced grassed swale;
- one stormwater management dry pond; and
- one oil/grit separator (Stormceptor EFO Model EFO 12 or Equivalent Equipment)
Effects of consultation
The following comment was received: "Please follow environmental regulations. We need to protect the environment because it sustains us all (e.g., clean water, food, air, protection from erosion, health, opportunity for jobs, recreation, etc). It's the right thing to do for humans and other animals, plants and entire ecosystems. Thank you."
This proposal was evaluated against applicable Ministry standards and guidelines to ensure the protection of human health and minimize environmental impacts.
The ministry’s mandate is to ensure that existing and/or proposed sewage works do not cause any potential public health or environmental concerns, including adverse environmental impacts to the ground water and surface waters.
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How to Appeal
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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:
- prepare your application
- provide notice to the minister
- 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:
- 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
- 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
- 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:
- 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?
- 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)
Jungbunzlauer Canada Inc.
1555 Elm Street
Port Colborne ,
ON
L3K 5V5
Canada
Registrar, Ontario Land Tribunal
655 Bay Street, Suite 1500
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca
Include the following:
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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Toronto,
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M4V 1P5
Canada
Original proposal
Proposal details
This proposal is to amend ECA#4379-DB8JUE, issued on November 28, 2024, to Jungbunzlauer Canada Inc. for approval of sewage works serving the citric acid production facility (JBL Citric Plant), the corn-derived glucose manufacturing facility (JBL Glucose Plant), and the xanthan gum production facility (JBL Xanthan Gum Plant) located at 1555 Elm Street, in the City of Port Colborne, Regional Municipality of Niagara.
The previously approved sewage works were designed for the collection, transmission, treatment, and disposal of process wastewater and once-through non-contact cooling water from the JBL Citric Plant, JBL Glucose Plant, JBL Xanthan Gum Line, and the associated stormwater runoff.
The proposed amendment application is for approval to expand the existing sewage works to accommodate an increase in production across JBL’s mixed product campus to meet market demands. The proposed amendments are for approval of:
- addition of a seventh, eighth, and ninth aeration basin
- addition of a fourth and fifth clarifier
- addition of a second gravity thickener
- an increase to the treated process water discharge from JBL’s mixed product campus from the existing maximum one-day discharge rate of 35,000 cubic metres per day to 45,000 cubic metres per day. The annual daily average flow will increase from 28,000 cubic metres per day to 35,000 cubic metres per day
- an increase to the discharge of once-through non-contact cooling water from up to 233,500 cubic metres per day to 520,000 cubic metres per day
- addition of a second effluent diffuser discharging to the Welland Canal
- a new stormwater management system, serving the Xanthan Gum facility, consisting of collection ditches, detention pond of 2,090 cubic metres capacity, and oil and grit treatment system, discharging ultimately to the Welland Canal
Supporting materials
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135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
Comment
Commenting is now closed.
This consultation was open from June 13, 2025
to July 28, 2025
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M4V 1P5
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