Amendment to Renewable Energy Approval for the ENS Poultry Inc. Project

We amended Renewable Energy Approval (REA) No. 9230-8QKPAR for the Class 2 anaerobic digestion facility, issued to ENS Poultry Inc., to make the following changes:

• update the facility’s financial assurance requirements
• implement minor administrative changes

The ENS Poultry Inc. facility, which was originally approved on February 13, 2012, uses a process called anaerobic digestion to process up to 7,124 cubic metres of liquid organic waste per year, to generate up to 137 kilowatts of electricity.

Updates to Financial Assurance Requirements

Financial Assurance (FA) is the financial security held by the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) to guarantee the cost of complying with environmental measures specified in the REA, including the clean-up, and post closure care of the facility.

Ongoing operations, site conditions, and potential cost changes require the need to re-evaluate the FA held by the ministry over time. The ministry held FA in the amount of $56,400.00 for the ENS Poultry Inc. project. This amendment updates the FA amount to $67,740.00.

In line with current ministry practice, while considering the facility’s operations and reducing the administrative burden to ENS Poultry Inc., the Director has extended the FA re-evaluation requirements from every three years to every five years.

Minor Administrative Changes

In addition, this amendment incorporates the following administrative changes:

• consolidation of this amendment and previous amendment notices issued by the Director into one document
• removal of portions of conditions that have been fulfilled
• renumbering of conditions in the REA to reflect previous and current changes to conditions

No new environmental effects are expected beyond those that were previously identified, documented and consulted on through the original Renewable Energy Approval process.

This Class 2 anaerobic digestion facility is located at 6424 8th Line West, R.R. #1, Lot 11, Concession B, in Centre Wellington Township, County of Wellington.

Third-party hearing provisions

Any resident of Ontario may require a hearing by the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) within 15 days after the date this decision is loaded to the Environmental Registry by written notice served upon all of the following:

Appellate body

Courier mail should be addressed to:
Ontario Land Tribunal
25 Grosvenor Street, 4th Floor
Toronto, ON M7A 1R1
Mail sent through Canada Post should be addressed to:
Ontario Land Tribunal
655 Bay Street, Suite 1500
Toronto, ON M5G 1E5
Phone: 416-212-6349
Toll free: 1-866-448-2248
TTY: 1-800-855-1155
Email: OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca

Issuing authority

Mohsen Keyvani
Director, Section 47.5, Environmental Protection Act
Environmental Permissions Branch
135 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 1
Toronto, Ontario
M4V 1P5
Phone: (416) 314-8001
Toll-Free Phone: (800) 461-6290
Email: enviropermissions@ontario.ca

Proponent

ENS Poultry Inc.
6432 8th Line West, R.R. #1
Centre Wellington Township, Ontario
N0B 1S0
Email: enspoultry@gmail.com
An applicant for a hearing shall state in the notice requiring the hearing:

1. A description of how engaging in the renewable energy project in accordance with the renewable energy approval will cause either:
   • serious harm to human health
   • serious and irreversible harm to plant life, animal life or the natural environment
2. The portion of the renewable energy approval in respect of which the hearing is required
3. The relief sought.

Further information is provided on the OLT’s website at:

https://olt.gov.on.ca/