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Author: Glencore Canada | Date: 14/10/2020
Through its environmental policy, CCR Refinery is committed to, among other things:
As a result, over the last few years, CCR has improved its environmental performance and compliance:
CCR Refinery is also committed to significant reductions of its atmospheric emissions affecting the neighbouring industrial and residential sectors in Montreal-East.
A vast action plan representing investments in excess of $30M has been carried out in the Refinery’s three main production sectors: the electro-refining sector, the spent anodes re-heating furnace, and the precious metals sector.
This action plan included, among other things:
These new measures have significantly reduced the refinery’s atmospheric emissions of arsenic by 82%, copper by 80%, nickel by 62%, and lead by 51%. Total particulate matter emissions were also reduced by 25% during this period.
The following graph depicts the reduction of CCR Refinery’s arsenic emissions by more than 80%:
Rigorous monitoring will be continued to ensure the compliance of the atmospheric emissions, which involves sampling and modelling atmospheric concentrations of metals and long-term mitigation measures.
TAGS: CCR , Copper , Environment