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Air Quality Monitoring Proposed Southern Air Monitoring Plan - Next Steps Southern Air Monitoring Plan Operations and Data Management If the Southern Air Monitoring Plan is approved for funding by AEMERA in 2015/16, WBEA members propose Data generated by the proposed Southern Air Monitoring validated data are available within four weeks after the to phase in implementation of the plan over the next six years. Some of the milestones would include: Plan would become part of WBEA’s existing data and month in which they were collected. The validated data are information management system which has been then provided to stakeholders, regulators and the public Wood Buffalo Environmental Association developed over the last 16 years to meet user data and to ensure that accurate information is available to support operational needs, as well as regulatory requirements. informed decision making. Air Quality Monitoring Generating timely, accurate, accessible, high-quality data is • Prepare a draft work plan for implementation of the Southern Air a fundamental principle of WBEA’s monitoring programs. The following figure illustrates the flow of information from Monitoring Plan. WBEA monitoring stations to various data repositories. • Complete monitoring site construction and commission the Conklin Enhanced WBEA has developed a leading-edge Data Management WBEA data arising from environmental monitoring Deposition Station (AMS 18), in support of JOSM. System (DMS) which ensures that data are transmitted in activities undertaken in support of the Southern Air near real-time to the WBEA website and that raw data are Monitoring Plan will also be available for all the purposes • Deploy WBEA portable air monitoring stations to Conklin and Janvier until A Proposed Ambient Air Monitoring Plan for the Southern validated and archived for future analysis. WBEA’s identified in the diagram below, in the future. such time as fixed air monitoring stations are purchased, integrated and Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo commissioned in the region. • Begin planning and site selection for the network of meteorological towers at all The Wood Buffalo Environmental Association (WBEA) monitors the environment of the SAGD facilities. 2 Air Monitoring Directive / 68,454 km Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB) in north-eastern Alberta. • Identify facilities, with production greater than 100,000 bpd, which will require National Air Pollution The Athabasca Oil Sands Region, located within the municipality, is a source of bitumen fixed air monitoring stations. WBEA Ambient Air Monitoring Program Surveillance Network which is produced through mining and in situ operations. The region includes the • Identify facilities, with production less than 100,000 bpd which will require Data Flow 2014 portable air monitoring stations and site selection to meet AMD criteria. communities of Fort McMurray, Fort Chipewyan, Fort McKay, Anzac, Janvier and Conklin. Technical Projects WBEA is committed to reporting accurate and timely high quality data from our Air, Terrestrial and Human Exposure Monitoring Programs to ensure regional stakeholders WBEA Alberta Environment & Air have the information they need to make informed environmental decisions. Real-time Environment Air Monitoring WBEA Sustainable Resource Quality • Begin planning and site selection for the southern boundary Canada Stations Server Raw Data Development Health background/ trans-boundary air monitoring station. Index • Finalize site selection for monitoring activities in the region. Alberta Ambient Air $Excelsior Development in the Real-time $ # • Finalize an implementation plan for operations and data management for the Quality Objectives Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. Anzac AMS 14 Raw Data Gregoire Lake Estates #(! 4 Southern Area of the RMWB Southern Air Monitoring Plan. Nexen WBEA Data $ • Construction of sites for specified monitoring activities, at the facilities. 3rd Party $Grizzly Oilsands 5! Website Requests To date, WBEA’s monitoring has Nexen on call JACOS $ • Deployment of meteorological towers and passive or new technology $ been focused in the resource monitoring network as required. Validated extraction areas of the northern • Incorporation of any existing air monitoring station into the Southern Data National Air portion of the RMWB. WBEA’s Air Monitoring Plan. Environmental Clean Air Pollution $ ConocoPhillips air and forest health monitoring Protection & • Begin planning and site selection for the network of passive or new Alberta Surveillance Connacher programs have been designed to Enhancement Strategic $ technology monitoring at all SAGD facilities. Environment Act/Approvals Alliance Network $ monitor potential environmental 2015 Connacher & Sustainable effects resulting from these MEG Energy Resource Stakeholders $ developments. The number of Development $Statoil resource extraction developments in the Lower Athabasca southern portion of the air shed, the area south Regional Plan/ # of Fort McMurray and north of Lac la Biche, are Janvier Frameworks currently on a smaller scale with respect to air • Deployment of the southern boundary fixed air monitoring station $Statoil emissions, but are expected to increase over 2016 • Complete implementation of Southern Air Monitoring Plan field activities. the next several decades. As new projects are approved and commissioned in the southern $MEG Energy part of the air shed, air quality and forest health Petrobank MEG Energy $ $ monitoring programs will need to be enhanced. WBEA’s proposed Southern Air Monitoring Plan will ensure that as resource extraction projects $ Cenovus Conklin $ Petrobank # (! WBEA’s long history of monitoring in the region are initiated in the southern portion of the RMWB, appropriate monitoring exists to provide AMS 18 $MEG Energy Harvest Operations Corp. $ $Cenovus has demonstrated that to be informative and stakeholders with the data they require to make informed environmental decisions. cost-effective, monitoring activities must not Devon $$ Devon only be integrated and well-coordinated, but $CNRL 2017 • Initial review of the Southern Air Monitoring Plan. also meet stakeholder needs. The Wood Buffalo Environmental Association (WBEA) is an independent, multi-stakeholder, Geography of the Area community-based, not-for-profit association of 38 member organizations located $CNRL in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. 0 4 8 12 16 20 Kilometers The southern area of the WBEA air shed is • Conduct dispersion modelling of emissions from the facilities in the region for For more information please contact: cumulative effects; perform ambient air and meteorological data analysis for defined as the area south of Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo Environmental Association | #100-330 Thickwood Blvd. Legend 5! (! north of Lac La Biche. The area is approximately identification of monitoring gaps, elimination of redundancies and opportunities Fort McMurray, AB. Canada T9K 1Y1 Wood Buffalo Environmental Association Proposed Radar Site Continuous Monitors for efficiency. Oil Sands Plant Status LICA Boundary 16,000 square kilometers with the highest terrain 2019 $ (780)-799-4420 | www.wbea.org Operating WBEA Boundary elevation being 740 meters above sea level WBEA Monitoring Network $ Approved Email: [email protected] $ Southern Area Application (masl). The lowest terrain elevation in the area Facebook: www.facebook.com/wbeapage $ Announced is 245 masl. Twitter: @wbea1 September 26, 2014 Wood Buffalo Environmental WBEA’s Proposed Southern Proposed Southern Air Monitoring Historical Continuous Ambient Monitoring Data Association (WBEA) Air Monitoring Plan Plan Implementation WBEA has conducted a number of ambient air monitoring studies in the region using mobile and portable air monitoring stations. Observed values published in reports, to date, are presented in the table below: WBEA has monitored and reported air quality in WBEA has created a plan which proposes timely and WBEA members recommend three phases in the north-eastern Alberta since 1998. WBEA is one appropriate integrated air and terrestrial monitoring for development of a proposed monitoring plan for the of eight air sheds in Alberta that report hourly the southern RMWB, based upon current and future southern region of the municipality. These phases Location Conklin ConocoPhillips Cenovus Statoil ConocoPhillips Fort Global AAAQO/G air monitoring data to the provincial Clean Air Surmont Christina Leismer Surmont Chipewyan Background resource extraction plans. The Southern Air Monitoring are proposed in consideration of existing and future Lake Strategic Alliance (CASA) www.casahome.org. Parameter Plan proposes a science-based enhancement of development and monitoring in the region. Period units Statistical May 5 - Oct 2011 - Oct 15 2012 - May 23 - Jul 3 - Jan - 1-hour WBEA has recently increased partnerships with monitoring that meets regional stakeholder needs. Value Oct 10, 2012 Mar 2012 Jan 23, 2013 Aug 31, 2013 Oct 31, 2013 Dec 2013 governments to enhance monitoring activities In developing the Plan, consideration was given to Phase 1: 1-hour ppb Maximum 3.1 52 14 7 27 19 0.04 -0.53 172 under the Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation monitoring objectives and local geographical features Sulphur Dioxide 24-hour ppb Maximum 1.1 26 1.7 2 9 4 48 Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring (JOSM) and the such as terrain, meteorology, site characteristics, Annual ppb Average - - - - 0.3 8 1. Establish fixed ambient air monitoring stations in Alberta Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation emissions sources and supporting infrastructure,
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