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
- 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
- Ozone-depleting substances and halocarbons regulation – Amendments and Frequently Asked Questions
- Paint and paint container designation
- Pesticide (Ministerial)
- Pesticide sales, handling, use and application
- Potable water
- Release reporting
- Remediation Certificate Regulation
- 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
- Release or temporary diversion of water for hydrostatic testing - Notification
- 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
- A Guide to Content of Industrial Approval Applications
- Air Monitoring Directive
- Air quality model guidelines
- Alberta soil and groundwater remediation guidelines
- Alberta's hazardous waste manifest system
- Alberta's user guide for waste managers
- Ambient air quality objectives
- Applications for Sour Gas Processing Plants and Heavy Oil Processing Plants - A Guide to Content
- Certification for solid waste, landfills and compost
- Compliance inspection program
- Compulsory industry monitoring and Alberta's environmental regulatory program
- Conservation and easement
- Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) Code
- Emission standards and guidelines
- Environmental assessment/evaluation
- Existing ambient air quality objectives
- Guidelines for Secondary Containment for Above Ground Storage Tanks
- Hazardous Waste Storage Guidelines
- 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 Monitoring Directive (2009) for Monitoring and Managing Soil Contamination under EPEA Approvals
- Source & Area emission standards
- Using Ambient Air Quality Objectives in Industrial Plume Dispersion Modelling and Individual Industrial Site Monitoring
- 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
Standards & Guidelines
- Administrative Guide for Approvals to Protect Surface Water Bodies Under the Water Act
- Administrative Guideline for Transferring Water Allocations
- Alberta soil and groundwater remediation guidelines
- Boundary Waters Treaty (1909)
- Compulsory industry monitoring and Alberta's environmental regulatory program
- Groundwater Evaluation Guidelines
- Guideline for Preparing Agricultural Feasibility Reports for Irrigation Projects
- Provincial wetland restoration/compensation guide
- Surface water quality guidelines for use in Alberta
- Water Act fact sheet: Drilling water wells in Alberta
- Water Act fact sheet: Dugouts
- Water Allocation Management
- 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.
