Global Reporting Initiative

Environmental Performance Indicators

Degree of compliance with GRI reporting elements

entièrement couvert Reporting element fully covered partiellement couvert Reporting element partially covered non couvert Reporting element not covered
GRI no. Reporting elements References and notes
Management approach

Aspects

  • Goals and performance
  • Policy
  • Organizational responsibility
  • Training and awareness
  • Monitoring and follow-up
  • Additional contextual information

Goals and performance

Policy

Organizational responsibility

The most senior position with operational responsibilities in the area of the environment is the General Manager – Environment and Corporate Affairs, reporting to the Executive Vice President – Corporate Affairs and Secretary General.

Training and awareness

Monitoring and follow-up
Materials
partialy covered EN1 Materials used by weight or volume.
partialy covered EN2 Percentage of materials used that are recycled input materials.
Energy
partialy covered EN3 Direct energy consumption by primary energy source. Hydro-Québec does not release any information regarding this indicator, since it considers such information to be confidential.
partialy covered EN4 Indirect energy consumption by primary source.
partialy covered EN5 Energy saved due to conservation and efficiency improvements.
fully covered EN6 Initiatives to provide energy-efficient or renewable energy based products and services, and reductions in energy requirements as a result of these initiatives.
partialy covered EN7 Initiatives to reduce indirect energy consumption and reductions achieved.
Water
not covered EN8 Total water withdrawal by source.

Hydroelectric power generation does not necessitate the withdrawal of water, and thus there is no discharge, either. Hydro-Québec has only two generating stations whose operations involve the withdrawal of water: Tracy thermal generating station and Gentilly-2 nuclear generating station.

Hydro-Québec does not release any information regarding this indicator, since it considers such information to be confidential.
not covered EN9 Water sources significantly affected by withdrawal of water. Indicator does not apply to Hydro-Québec's type of business.
partialy covered EN10 Percentage and total volume of water recycled and reused.
Biodiversity
partialy covered EN11 Location and size of land owned, leased, managed in, or adjacent to, protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas. Hydro-Québec does not specifically measure this indicator. Rather, the company focuses on protecting the habitats in the areas where it operates.
fully covered EN12 Description of significant impacts of activities, products, and services on biodiversity in protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas.
partialy covered EN13 Habitats protected or restored.
fully covered EN14 Strategies, current actions, and future plans for managing impacts on biodiversity.
partialy covered EN15 Number of IUCN Red List species and national conservation list species with habitats in areas affected by operations, by level of extinction risk. Hydro-Québec does not track IUCN Red List species. However, it does closely monitor species at risk. Species are designated at risk by federal and provincial government authorities and such designations are based on scientific evaluations that take into consideration IUCN designations.
Emissions, effluents and waste
fully covered EN16 Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight. The types of GHG other than CO2 released by the company (HFC, PFC) represent only a very small percentage of overall emissions and are considered insignificant.
partialy covered EN17 Other relevant indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight.
fully covered EN18 Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reductions achieved.
partialy covered EN19 Emissions of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) by weight.

Hydro-Québec does not measure ODS emissions resulting from normal operations. However, ODS inventories are prepared and distributed annually. An action plan to reduce ODS inventories has eliminated 46% of such emissions since 2002.

Nine CFC and HCFC spills occurred in 2008, for a total of 600.9 kg.
fully covered EN20 NO, SO, and other significant air emissions by type and weight.

In 2008, levels of NOx and SO2 emissions from our thermal generating stations were similar to those in 2007.

The 2007 data on criteria air contaminant (CAC) emissions from Hydro-Québec's thermal generating stations have been made public in the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) on the Environment Canada Web site.
not covered EN21 Total water discharge by quality and destination.

Hydroelectric power generation does not necessitate the withdrawal of water, and thus there is no discharge, either. Hydro-Québec has only two generating stations whose operations involve the withdrawal of water: Tracy thermal generating station and Gentilly-2 nuclear generating station.

Hydro-Québec does not release any information regarding this indicator, since it considers such information to be confidential.
partialy covered EN22 Total weight of waste by type and disposal method.
fully covered EN23 Total number and volume of significant spills.
partialy covered EN24 Weight of transported, imported, exported, or treated waste deemed hazardous under the terms of the Basel Convention Annex I, II, III, and VIII, and percentage of transported waste shipped internationally. Hazardous waste produced by Hydro-Québec activities is recycled, recovered or disposed of by Canadian firms in compliance with current legislation.
partialy covered EN25 Identity, size, protected status, and biodiversity value of water bodies and related habitats significantly affected by the reporting organization's discharges of water and runoff. Hydroelectric power generation does not necessitate the withdrawal of water, and thus there is no discharge, either. Hydro-Québec has only two generating stations whose operations involve the withdrawal of water: Tracy thermal generating station and Gentilly-2 nuclear generating station.
Products and services
fully covered EN26 Initiatives to mitigate environmental impacts of products and services, and extent of impact mitigation.
not covered EN27 Percentage of products sold and their packaging materials that are reclaimed by category. Indicator does not apply to Hydro-Québec's type of business.
Compliance
fully covered EN28 Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for noncompliance with environmental laws and regulations. Hydro-Québec was neither the object of any legal proceedings nor subject to any significant fines for environmental violations in 2008.
Transport
partialy covered EN29 Significant environmental impacts of transporting products and other goods and materials used for the organization's operations, and transporting members of the workforce.
Overall
not covered EN30 Total environmental protection expenditures and investments by type. Hydro-Québec takes part in Statistics Canada's biennial Survey of Environmental Protection Expenditures (SEPE). Information reported to Statistics Canada is confidential.

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