Global Reporting Initiative
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At Hydro-Québec, all activities that have a significant impact on the environment are covered by ISO 14001-certified environmental management systems. These systems apply various guidance tools: operational procedures, training and environmental management programs, and objectives and targets. The most senior manager of each business unit involved is responsible for ensuring EMS compliance.
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At Hydro-Québec, all activities that have a significant impact on the environment are covered by ISO 14001–certified environmental management systems. These systems apply various guidance tools: operational procedures, training and environmental management programs, and objectives and targets. The most senior manager of each business unit involved is responsible for ensuring EMS compliance.
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At Hydro-Québec, all activities that have a significant impact on the environment are covered by ISO 14001–certified environmental management systems. These systems apply various guidance tools: operational procedures, training and environmental management programs, and objectives and targets. The most senior manager of each business unit involved is responsible for ensuring EMS compliance.
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At Hydro-Québec, all activities that have a significant impact on the environment are covered by ISO 14001–certified environmental management systems. These systems apply various guidance tools: operational procedures, training and environmental management programs, and objectives and targets. The most senior manager of each business unit involved is responsible for ensuring EMS compliance.
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At Hydro-Québec, all activities that have a significant impact on the environment are covered by ISO 14001–certified environmental management systems. These systems apply various guidance tools: operational procedures, training and environmental management programs, and objectives and targets. The most senior manager of each business unit involved is responsible for ensuring EMS compliance.
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At Hydro-Québec, all activities that have a significant impact on the environment are covered by ISO 14001–certified environmental management systems. These systems apply various guidance tools: operational procedures, training and environmental management programs, and objectives and targets. The most senior manager of each business unit involved is responsible for ensuring EMS compliance.
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At Hydro-Québec, all activities that have a significant impact on the environment are covered by ISO 14001–certified environmental management systems. These systems apply various guidance tools: operational procedures, training and environmental management programs, and objectives and targets. The most senior manager of each business unit involved is responsible for ensuring EMS compliance.
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| Materials | ||
| Materials used by weight or volume. |
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| Percentage of materials used that are recycled input materials. |
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| Energy | ||
| Direct energy consumption by primary energy source. |
Water is the main primary energy source used by Hydro-Québec to generate electricity. According to this indicator's calculation method, Hydro-Québec would have a negative consumption of several billion GJ. In fact, most of the electricity sold by Hydro-Québec does not require any GJ consumption. The only portion of the company's electricity that does involve GJ consumption comes from fossil fuel combustion in Hydro-Québec's facilities or from our purchases of fossil-fuel-based electricity from Canadian or American producers.
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| Indirect energy consumption by primary source. | This indicator does not apply to Hydro-Québec since the electricity the company purchases is entirely intended for resale and not to meet the company's needs. However, Hydro-Québec can provide customers with information to allow them to calculate the atmospheric emissions linked to their purchases. | |
| Energy saved due to conservation and efficiency improvements. |
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| Initiatives to provide energy-efficient or renewable energy based products and services, and reductions in energy requirements as a result of these initiatives. | ||
| Initiatives to reduce indirect energy consumption and reductions achieved. |
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| Water | ||
| 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. |
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| Water sources significantly affected by withdrawal of water. | Indicator does not apply to Hydro-Québec. | |
| Percentage and total volume of water recycled and reused. |
Data not available |
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| Biodiversity | ||
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Location and size of land owned, leased or managed in or adjacent to protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas. |
Hydro-Québec operates 33,000 km of high-voltage lines and 112,000 km of distribution lines that cross farmland, forests, residential districts and urban areas. To control vegetation in these line corridors, we have adopted a number of environmental strategies that take into account the type of land involved. To supply its hydroelectric fleet, Hydro-Québec operates 26 large reservoirs, having a total area of 23,000 km2. »
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| Description of significant impacts of activities, products, and services on biodiversity in protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas. |
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| Habitats protected or restored. |
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| Strategies, current actions, and future plans for managing impacts on biodiversity. |
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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 closely monitors species at risk as part of its infrastructure projects and operating activities. In Québec, 38 animal species and 68 plant species have been designated as threatened or vulnerable according to the Act respecting threatened or vulnerable species. Species are designated at risk by federal and provincial government authorities and such designations are based on scientific evaluations that take IUCN designations into consideration. Hydro-Québec is participating in eight provincial restoration teams that are working on protecting 12 threatened or at-risk wildlife species.
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| Emissions, effluents and waste | ||
| Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight. |
GHG emissions other than CO2–HFC, SF6 and PFC (including CF4)–released by the company represent only a small percentage of overall emissions. Two HFC spills were reported in 2010, for a total of 236 kg. |
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| Other relevant indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight. |
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| Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reductions achieved. |
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| Emissions of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) by weight. |
Hydro-Québec does not measure ODS emissions resulting from normal operations. However, with the gradual replacement, at the end of its service life, of equipment that contains CFCs and HCFCs, ODS consumption by Hydro-Québec goes down every year. Thirteen CFC and HCFC spills were reported in 2010, for a total of 701 kg. The halon inventory stands at 10,088 kg, down 82% from 2002.
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| NO, SO, and other significant air emissions by type and weight. |
The 2009 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Total weight of waste by type and disposal method. |
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| Total number and volume of significant spills. |
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| 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. | Residual hazardous materials (RHMs) produced by Hydro-Québec are sent to authorized transfer centres in Québec. Any transfer centres that then export a portion of these materials do so as RHM export sites. The following materials are processed outside Québec: PCB (shipped by SANEXEN to Ontario and Alberta) and SF6 gas (shipped by AREVA T&D CANADA Inc. to Tennessee, U.S.A.). | |
| 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.
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| Products and services | ||
| Initiatives to mitigate environmental impacts of products and services, and extent of impact mitigation. |
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| 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 | ||
| Monetary value of significant fines and total number of nonmonetary sanctions for noncompliance with environmental laws and regulations. |
Hydro-Québec was not subject to any sanctions for noncompliance with environmental legislation nor any significant fines for environmental violations in 2010.
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| Transport | ||
| Significant environmental impacts of transporting products and other goods and materials used for the organization's operations, and transporting members of the workforce. |
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| 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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