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Are You Certified Green for 2018?
The National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting Regulations (GHG Regulations) and Pollution Prevention Plan Regulations (PPP Regulations) were promulgated on 3 April 2017 and 21 July 2017.
Stipulated Regulations requirements, include:
Registration of Data Providers
Data providers were required to register within 30 days after commencement of the regulations. All facilities where activities exceed the thresholds as stipulated had to be registered.
GHG Reporting
Data providers must submit a GHG report by 31 March 2018. The report must include GHG emissions and activity data as set out in the Technical Guidelines for Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Industry. Reporting boundaries are defined according to operational control and must include all process, fugitive and combustion emissions for the reporting period.
Development of a Pollution Prevention Plan
The first Pollution Prevention Plan has to be submitted within five months from the date of promulgation - December 2017. The plan must cover the period from date of promulgation up to 31 December 2020. A progress report must be submitted annually by 31 March of each year.
The National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting Regulations (GHG Regulations) and Pollution Prevention Plan Regulations (PPP Regulations) were promulgated on 3 April 2017 and 21 July 2017.
Stipulated Regulations requirements, include:
Registration of Data Providers
Data providers were required to register within 30 days after commencement of the regulations. All facilities where activities exceed the thresholds as stipulated had to be registered.
GHG Reporting
Data providers must submit a GHG report by 31 March 2018. The report must include GHG emissions and activity data as set out in the Technical Guidelines for Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Industry. Reporting boundaries are defined according to operational control and must include all process, fugitive and combustion emissions for the reporting period.
Development of a Pollution Prevention Plan
The first Pollution Prevention Plan has to be submitted within five months from the date of promulgation - December 2017. The plan must cover the period from date of promulgation up to 31 December 2020. A progress report must be submitted annually by 31 March of each year.
Government Publishes Anticipated Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Speculation on the authenticity of the National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting has ended on Monday, 3 April 2017, as Government published Regulations (GG No. 40762, Notice 275) in terms of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act.
The regulations state that data providers are lawfully required to submit their greenhouse gas emissions and activity data as set out in the Technical Guidelines for Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions for all of its facilities.
Companies with industry activities that exceed the thresholds listed must provide the relevant information, for the preceding calendar year, to the competent authority by 31 March of each year.
In terms of the regulations, organisations engaging in the following activities are considered to be data providers and will be required to report on their GHG emissions:
Companies that meet the specified requirements must register by the 3 May 2017, 30 days after the commencement of the Regulations.
Speculation on the authenticity of the National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting has ended on Monday, 3 April 2017, as Government published Regulations (GG No. 40762, Notice 275) in terms of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act.
The regulations state that data providers are lawfully required to submit their greenhouse gas emissions and activity data as set out in the Technical Guidelines for Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions for all of its facilities.
Companies with industry activities that exceed the thresholds listed must provide the relevant information, for the preceding calendar year, to the competent authority by 31 March of each year.
In terms of the regulations, organisations engaging in the following activities are considered to be data providers and will be required to report on their GHG emissions:
- Energy – fuel combustion activities, fugitive emission from fuels and Carbon Dioxide transport and storage.
- Industrial processes and product use – mineral industry, chemical industry, metal industry, non-energy products from fuels and solvents use, electronics industry, product uses as substitutes for ozone depleting substances, other product manufacture and use.
- Agriculture, forestry and other land use – livestock, land, aggregate source and non-CO2 emission sources on land and other.
- Waste sector – solid waste disposal, biological treatment of solid waste, incineration and open burning of waste and wastewater treatment and discharge.
Companies that meet the specified requirements must register by the 3 May 2017, 30 days after the commencement of the Regulations.
AeroQual AQM60 Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Station - For Sale
Following the recent completion of a monitoring contract, EHRCON has an AeroQual AQM60 ambient air quality monitoring station available for sale.
The AQM60 is a compact, power efficient instrument capable of long-term quantitative, time integrated atmospheric measurement with excellent correlation to reference methods under extreme ambient conditions. During the three years on site the instrument had no down-time on account of internal failures.
The instrument is configured to monitor nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, particulate matter (PM10), volatile organic compounds and meteorological parameters (air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed/direction). The instrument is fitted with a data acquisition and remote communication system to provide near real time viewing of data to specified users.
The sulphur dioxide sensor, communication system and a PM2.5 auxiliary port was newly installed in June 2015.
The purchase price is R400 000.00 o.n.o (excl.VAT). EHRCON kindly request a 50% deposit to book the instrument. Following a full laboratory service, the instrument will be delivered to a site of the purchaser's choice, within the borders of South Africa, at no additional charge. Balance of payment will be required on delivery.
Cost for site preparation, instillation, on-site calibration and AeroQual support are not included.
This offer is available to the first interested party.
For further information, contact Uno Neveling via e-mail: info@ehrcon.com.
Following the recent completion of a monitoring contract, EHRCON has an AeroQual AQM60 ambient air quality monitoring station available for sale.
The AQM60 is a compact, power efficient instrument capable of long-term quantitative, time integrated atmospheric measurement with excellent correlation to reference methods under extreme ambient conditions. During the three years on site the instrument had no down-time on account of internal failures.
The instrument is configured to monitor nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, particulate matter (PM10), volatile organic compounds and meteorological parameters (air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed/direction). The instrument is fitted with a data acquisition and remote communication system to provide near real time viewing of data to specified users.
The sulphur dioxide sensor, communication system and a PM2.5 auxiliary port was newly installed in June 2015.
The purchase price is R400 000.00 o.n.o (excl.VAT). EHRCON kindly request a 50% deposit to book the instrument. Following a full laboratory service, the instrument will be delivered to a site of the purchaser's choice, within the borders of South Africa, at no additional charge. Balance of payment will be required on delivery.
Cost for site preparation, instillation, on-site calibration and AeroQual support are not included.
This offer is available to the first interested party.
For further information, contact Uno Neveling via e-mail: info@ehrcon.com.
