Industrial facility greenhouse gas emissions reporting

Data from the 2023 emissions report summary shows the following:

• B.C.’s industrial reporting operations emitted 18.51 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e), which is 1.4 percent less than the 18.77 MtCO₂e reported in 2022. This does not include 11.71 MtCO₂e from woody biomass of item 1 listed in Schedule C of the Regulation
• 131 B.C. reporting operations submitted 589 facility emissions reports, not including three electricity import operations

Data visualization of emissions report summaries

The details of the annual emissions report summaries can be viewed with this dashboard. Emissions can be broken down by reporting year, facility type, sector type and gases. See definitions of facility and sector types.

Note: The Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) are used.

Reporting data files

View the data for the emissions report summaries (XLSX, 292KB).

Definitions

Facility types

• Linear Facility Operation (LFO) - an industrial operation that carries out one or more activities listed in column 2 of Table 2 in Schedule A of the GGERR at one or more facilities that are controlled and directed by the same operator. For example, multiple well sites and/or pipelines
• Large Facility - an individual industrial facility that emits 10,000 tCO₂e or more per year 
• Single Facility Operation (SFO) - an industrial operation that involves one or more activities listed in column 2 of Table 1 in Schedule A of the GGERR that are carried out in a single facility by an operator. For example, a mine or a pulp mill
• Other Facility (previously termed L_bc) - an aggregation of Small Facilities (an aggregation of individual operations within an LFO that emit less than 1,000 tCO₂e per year - previously termed L_c) and Medium Facilities (an individual industrial operation that emits 1,000 to 10,000 tCO₂e per year - previously termed IF_b) within an LFO. Note that aggregating the emissions from Large Facilities and Other Facilities within an LFO may not equal the emissions reported by the LFO due to various reasons. For example, data rounding and omissions due to confidentiality requests
• Electricity Import Operation (EIO) - an industrial operation in B.C. that is the first point of delivery of imported electricity generated from a facility outside of B.C.

Sector types

Sectors are aggregated using the following North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes:

• Cement and Lime - 327310 and 327410
• Electricity and Heat Generation - 221111, 221112, 221119, 221121, 221122 and 221330
• Forest Products - 321111, 321212, 321216, 321999, 322111, 322112, 322121 and 322122
• Manufacturing and Refinery - 111412, 111419, 311119, 311310, 324110, 325120, 325181, 325189, 325190, 327420, 327990, 331222, 331511 and 336390
• Mining and Smelting - 212114, 212220, 212231, 212233, 212299, 331313 and 331410
• Oil and Gas - 211110, 211113, 211114, 213118, 221210, 412110, 486110, 486210 and 721310

For more information, please refer to the ReadMe tab in the data file.