Legislation / Guidelines
For complete text of the legislation mentioned below, and the most current version of the regulations, see Queen's Printer.
Environmental protection / enhancement
Environmental Protection and Enhancement ActThe purpose of this Act is to support and promote the protection, enhancement and wise use of the environment.
The Act’s individual regulations cover a wide range of activities, from beverage container recycling and pesticide sales, to wastewater and storm drainage.
Regulations
- Activities designation
- Administrative penalty
- Amendments to the Alberta ozone-depleting substances and halocarbons regulation
- Approvals and registrations procedure
- Approvals, inspections, abatement and enforcement
- Beverage container recycling
- Conservation and reclamation
- Conservation easement registration
- Designated material recycling and management
- Disclosure of information
- Electronics designation
- Emissions trading
- Environmental Appeal Board
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental assessment (mandatory and exempted activities)
- Environmental protection and enhancement (miscellaneous)
- Lubricating oil material recycling and management bylaw
- Mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants
- Ozone-depleting substances and halocarbons
- Paint and paint container designation
- Pesticide (Ministerial)
- Pesticide sales, handling, use and application
- Potable water
- Release reporting
- Substance release
- Tire designation
- Waste control
- Wastewater and storm drainage
- Wastewater and storm drainage (Ministerial)
Codes of Practice
- Asphalt paving plants
- Compost facilities
- Compressor/pumping stations and sweet gas processing plants
- Concrete producing plants
- Energy recovery
- Exploration operations
- Forage drying facilities
- Foundries
- Hydrologic tracing analysis studies
- Land treatment of soil containing hydrocarbons
- Landfills
- Pesticides
- Pits
- Release of hydrostatic test water
- Sawmill plants 2006
- Small incinerators
- Tanker truck washing facilities
- Wastewater systems/wastewater collection system
- Wastewater systems/wastewater lagoon
- Waterworks system/water distribution system
- Waterworks systems/high quality groundwater
Standards & Guidelines
- Air quality model guidelines
- Alberta's hazardous waste manifest system
- Alberta's user guide for waste managers
- Ambient air quality objectives
- Certification for solid waste, landfills and compost
- Compliance inspection program
- Compulsory industry monitoring and Alberta's environmental regulatory program
- Conservation and easement
- Emission standards and guidelines
- Environmental assessment/evaluation
- Existing ambient air quality objectives
- Laboratory data quality assurance policy
- Landfills and security
- Management of acid deposition
- Monitoring and reporting directives
- Petroleum storage tank site guidance documents
- Product fees and taxes
- Soil/groundwater remediation guidelines
- Source & Area emission standards
- Water quality-based effluent limits (Procedures manual)
Water
Water ActThis Act focuses on managing and protecting Alberta's water and on streamlining administrative processes.
Regulations
- Bow, Oldman and South Saskatchewan river basin water allocation order
- Drinking Water Legislation
- Drinking water quality
- Oldman river basin water allocation order
- Water (ministerial) regulation
- Water (offences and penalties)
Codes of Practice
- Pipelines and telecommunication lines crossing a water body
- Temporary diversion of water for hydrostatic testing of pipelines
- Water: Codes of Practice
- Watercourse crossings
Standards & Guidelines
- Boundary Waters Treaty (1909)
- Compulsory industry monitoring and Alberta's environmental regulatory program
- Groundwater Evaluation Guidelines
- Master Agreement on Apportionment (1969)
- Provincial wetland restoration/compensation guide
- Soil/groundwater remediation guidelines
- Surface water quality guidelines for use in Alberta
- Water Act: Approvals
- Water Act: Background
- Water Act: Dugouts
- Water Act: Licences
- Water Act: Temporary water diversions
- Water Act: Transferring water allocations under a licence
- Water allocation transfer under a licence
- Water conservation objectives
- Water legislation - Application plans
- Water quality-based effluent limits (Procedures manual)
- Wetland Management in the Settled Area of Alberta - An Interim Policy
Climate Change
Climate Change and Emissions Management ActAlberta is the first jurisdiction in North America to impose comprehensive regulations requiring large facilities in various sectors to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Regulations
- Administrative penalty regulation
- Alberta-based offset credit system
- Specified gas emitters regulation
- Specified gas reporting
Standards & Guidelines
- Afforestation Quantification Protocol
- Beef Feeding Quantification Protocol
- Beef Lifecycle Quantification Protocol
- Biofuel Quantification Protocol
- Biogas Quantification Protocol
- Biomass Quantification Protocol
- Compost Quantification Protocol
- Energy Efficiency Quantification Protocol
- Enhanced Oil Recovery (Streamlined) Quantification Protocol
- Enhanced Oil Recovery Quantification Protocol
- Landfill Gas Quantification Protocol
- Pork Quantification Protocol
- Specified gas reporting: program development
- Tillage Quantification Protocol
- Waste Heat Recovery (Streamlined) Quantification Protocol
- Waste Heat Recovery Quantification Protocol
