GRI No
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Reporting Performance Indicators
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References and Notes
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| Disclosure on Management Approach |
Management approach items:
- Goals and performance
- Policy
- Organizational responsibility
- Training and awareness
- Monitoring and follow-up
- Additional contextual information
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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
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| Raw Materials |
EN1 |
Materials used by weight or volume. |
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| EN2 |
Percentage of materials used that are recycled input materials. |
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| Energy |
| 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. |
| EN4 |
Indirect energy consumption by primary source. |
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| EN5 |
Energy saved due to conservation and efficiency improvements. |
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EN6 |
Initiatives to provide energy-efficient or renewable energy based products and services, and reductions in energy requirements as a result of these initiatives. |
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| EN7 |
Initiatives to reduce indirect energy consumption and reductions achieved. |
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| Water |
| EN8 |
Total water withdrawal by source. |
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EN9 |
Water sources significantly affected by withdrawal of water. |
Indicator does not apply to Hydro-Québec's type of business. |
| EN10 |
Percentage and total volume of water recycled and reused. |
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| Biodiversity |
| 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.
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| EN12 |
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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| EN13 |
Habitats protected or restored. |
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| EN14 |
Strategies, current actions, and future plans for managing impacts on biodiversity. |
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| 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 which take into consideration IUCN designations.
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| Emissions, Effluents and Waste |
| EN16 |
Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight. |
The types of GHG other than CO2 released by the company (HFC, PFC, SF6) represent only a very small percentage of overall emissions and are considered insignificant.
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| EN17 |
Other relevant indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight. |
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| EN18 |
Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reductions achieved. |
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| EN19 |
Emissions of ozone-depleting substances (SACO) by weight. |
Hydro-Québec does not measure ODS emissions resulting from normal equipment use. However, ODS inventories are prepared and distributed annually. An action plan to reduce ODS inventories has eliminated 44% of such emissions since 2002.
Five HCFC and halon spills occurred in 2007, for a total of 600.48 kg.
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| EN20 |
NO, SO, and other significant air emissions by type and weight. |
In 2007, levels of NOx and SO2 emissions from our thermal generating stations were similar to those in 2006.
Criteria air contaminant (CAC) emissions from Hydro-Québec's thermal generating stations in 2005 have been made public in the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) on the Environment Canada Web site.
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| EN21 |
Total water discharge by quality and destination. |
Indicator does not apply to Hydro-Québec's type of business. |
| EN22 |
Total weight of waste by type and disposal method. |
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| EN23 |
Total number and volume of significant spills. |
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| 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. |
Residual hazardous materials produced by Hydro-Québec activities are processed (recycled, recovered or destroyed) by Canadian suppliers in compliance with current legislation. |
| 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. |
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| Products and services |
| EN26 |
Initiatives to mitigate environmental impacts of products and services, and extent of impact mitigation. |
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| 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 |
| EN28 |
Monetary value of significant fines and total number of nonmonetary 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 2007.
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| Transport |
| EN29 |
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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| Overall |
| EN30 |
Total environmental protection expenditures and investments by type. |
Hydro-Québec does not release any information regarding this indicator, since it considers such information to be confidential. |
