sign here please australia signs the kyoto protocol alcoa anglesea 2007 environment report december ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT DECEMBER 2007 air Air Monitoring Stack Monitors Average Maximum Opacity g/m3 10-minute average 0.065 0.193 Stack SO2 kg/min 1-hour average Licence limit 100kg/min 75.25 87.51 SO2 1 hour ppb Average Maximum Community Centre 2 46 Primary School 3 143 Mt Ingoldsby 1 71 Scout Camp 3 96 Camp Wilkin 1 120 Camp Road 2 150 Ambient Monitors Ambient Monitors SO2 Maximum 1 hour averages (ppb) Date 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Community Centre 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Primary School 0 127 9 0 0 1 Mt Ingoldsby 1 0 4 0 0 54 13 48 0 Scout Camp 0 9 43 77 0 3 9 Camp Wilkin 0 0 7 0 0 2 34 10 0 Camp Road 1 115 9 0 0 3 3 EPA Intervention Level 210 EPA Air Quality Objective 200 Alcoa Local Standard 170 1 2 - 2 18 0 0 0 2 90 0 0 0 143 21 57 1 1 1 1 25 13 0 0 1 0 96 - - - 45 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 31 120 0 0 33 1 1 1 4 0 67 1 0 0 0 0 5 48 0 71 0 1 1 2 2 3 70 84 2 0 1 56 1 0 0 1 2 3 18 0 0 2 0 88 5 0 4 56 0 0 0 10 12 0 6 19 54 0 5 0 0 0 34 0 2 0 12 0 0 0 4 0 14951 0 45 0 3 1 ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT DECEMBER 2007 water Water Storage Barwon Water storage levels for the Geelong system at 36.5% capacity. Stage 4 restrictions apply with a Daylight Savings exemption to permit limited residential garden watering. Water Discharge ML December Total Ashponds (SP1) 133* 1598 Mine (SP4) 0 0 * average value based upon data from year to date. December data not available due to equipment error. Water Monitoring SP1 SP4 SP3 17/12/2007 Ashpond Mine Final EPA limit Lab Result EPA limit Lab Result EPA limit Lab Result pH 4-10 7.9 3-9 - 5-9 6.1 Susp. Solids 100 <2 100 - 30 2 Colour 50 5 50 - 50 10 Aluminium 10.00 0.05 10.0 - 5.500 0.260 Iron 10.00 0.06 20.0 - 4.000 0.072 Zinc 0.400 0.015 2.000 - 0.300 0.100 WATER WATER USAGE PER MONTH (ML) Date JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC TOTAL Town Water 0.7 0.7 0.9 1.1 0.9 2.3 1.7 1.9 1.4 0.8 0.9 1.0 14.3 Bore Water 274 253 280 241 246 182 205 227 221 252 274 299 2954 Mine Water 81 71 76 83 80 86 98 87 87 77 57 43 926 300.0 3000 250.0 2500 200.0 2000 150.0 1500 100.0 1000 50.0 0.0 500 0 ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT DECEMBER 2007 kyoto protocol During December the United Nations hosted a climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia. It was here that Australia signed the ratification documents for the Kyoto protocol, ending the Australian Government’s long-held opposition to the global climate agreement. So what is the Kyoto protocol? What is the Kyoto protocol? The Kyoto protocol is an international and legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. It came into force in February 2005 after being agreed at a 1997 UN conference in Kyoto, Japan. A total of 174 nations ratified the pact to reduce the greenhouse gases emitted by developed countries to at least 5% below 1990 levels by 2008-12. Is everyone signed up to the pact? No. The United States, the world’s biggest carbon emitter, opposed the Kyoto protocol in 2001, saying it would be too expensive and should include targets for developing nations. Following Australia’s ratification, the United States is now the only developed nation outside the pact. Australia had previously steadfastly refused to ratify Kyoto, arguing that Australia would not agree to a pact setting greenhouse gas emission targets unless the big polluters among developing countries, such as China and India, were also subject to binding targets. Why are developed nations expected to cut their carbon? Climate change will hit the poorest and most vulnerable the hardest, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ICPP), but it will affect everyone. With their greater economic and technological resources, industrialised countries are considered to be equipped to do the most to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. What happens after Kyoto? Delegates from over 180 nations, together with observers from intergovernmental and nongovernmental organisations met this month to negotiate a new pact to succeed the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012. Parties need to agree on the key areas which the new climate agreement should cover, such as mitigation (including avoided deforestation, where industrialised nations pay rainforest-rich nations to protect their forests to offset greenhouse gas emissions), adaptation, technology and financing. They also need to agree on when the talks and negotiations will conclude so that the new climate change deal can be ratified by national governments before the end of 2012. Other important issues under negotiation in Bali, included adaptation to climate change, the launch of a fund for adaptation, reducing emissions from deforestation, issues relating to the carbon market, and arrangements for a review of the Kyoto protocol. PLANTS OF THE ANGLESEA HEATH SCENTED PAPERBARK (Melaleuca squarrosa) Melaleuca Melaleuca...from Greek melas; black and leukos; white, referring to black marks on the white trunks of some species due to fire squarrosa squarrosa... having scales or scale-like overlapping leaves, referring to the shape of the leaf Size: Form: Foliage: Flowers: Habitat: 2 - 5m H x 1- 2 m W erect, open to compact large shrub or rarely, a small tree to 10m high stiff dark green ovate to triangular leaves to 18mm long; crowded in pairs and distinctly decussate (each pair at right angles to the pair below) profuse terminal spikes of scented cream to yellow flowers September to February damp and valley sclerophyll forests, swamp and wattle tea-tree scrub; must be in moist to wet soils MELALEUCA SQUARROSA ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT DECEMBER 2007 LAND RAINFALL (mm) Month JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC TOTAL 2007 Rainfall 40.0 20.2 25.6 7.3 31.0 37.1 129.4 52.8 17.0 69.2 40.8 43.6 124.0 26.0 47.2 31.6 100.4 67.8 653.4 1968-2006 Average 44.6 43.3 41.5 42.5 53.1 53.5 61.2 60.8 59.6 59.3 61.1 60.6 68.3 72.0 53.1 666.9 67.0 65.8 43.8 130 70 0.00 120 60 0.00 110 100 50 0.00 90 80 40 0.00 70 60 30 0.00 50 40 20 0.00 30 20 10 0.00 10 0 0.00 WATER TOWN WATER USE (ML) FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC Process 23.9 2000 2006 2007 JAN 11.0 1 2 . 8 0.6 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.1 0.8 0.9 0.6 2.2 0.6 1.5 0.7 1.7 1.2 0.7 0.8 0.9 2 .5 Amenity 11.6 3.8 1.5 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.7 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 4 0 .0 3 5 .0 2 .0 3 0 .0 2 5 .0 1 .5 2 0 .0 1 .0 1 5 .0 1 0 .0 0 .5 5 .0 0 .0 0 .0 2000 2006 2007 JA N F E B M A R A P R M A Y JUN JUL A UG S E P O C T NO V D E C AIR GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG) TOTAL (Mt) & GHG EMISSION EFFICENCY (t/MWh) GHG Mt GHG t/MWh 1990 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 1.42 1.23 1.27 1.50 1.45 1.47 1.31 1.49 1.40 1.34 1.24 1.19 1.21 1.21 1.20 1.21 1.20 1.18 2 1600000 1 .8 1400000 1 .6 1 .4 1 .2 1200000 1000000 1 800000 0 .8 600000 0 .6 400000 0 .4 200000 0 .2 0 0 ANGLESEA ENVIRONMENT REPORT DECEMBER 2007 environmental improvement Environmental Management Targets December 2007 Total Forecast 2007 Target Reportable Environmental Incidents 0 3 - 0 Monthly EHS ASAT Audit Completion (%) 100 100 - 90 Air Emission Targets December 2007 Total Forecast 2007 Target Ambient SO2 ( no. readings > 210ppb) 0 3 - 0 Ambient SO2 ( no. readings > 200ppb) 0 4 - 0 Stack SO2 (no. hrs > 100kg/min) 0 0 - 0 SO2 Load Reductions (lost MWh) 713 24601 - N/A GHG Efficiency (t CO2 e/MWh) 1.18 1.18 - 1.20 Opacity (10 min av > 0.25g/m3 normal operation) 0 0 - 0 Water Targets December 2007 Total Forecast 2007 Target Town Water (ML) 1.0 14.3 - 14.2 Bore Water (ML) 299 2955 - 2667 Waste Targets December 2007 Total Forecast 2007 Target Waste to Landfill (t) 0.0 3.8 - 9.0 Solid Prescribed Waste to Landfill (t) 0.0 0.0 - 0.0 Mine Rehabilitation Targets 2007 Total 2007 Target 2007 Area Cleared (ha) 2.9 3.5 2007 Area Rehabilitated (ha) 5.0 > 3.5 2005 Mine Rehabilitation Species Richness (%) 103 100 OUR ENVIRONMENT AND OUR EMPLOYEES.. Tony - we hear ther e’ s been an energy makeover at there’ e’s your place - what’ s been going on? With the Federal what’s Government solar rebate on offer, we’ve just installed sixteen solar panels on our roof which will satisfy all our power requirements. This is in addition to the existing solar hot water service. And what are the benefits? On an average day we consume 15 kW a day, but now with the solar panels we can actually generate over 20 kW per day during the summer months. So the excess power is being fed straight back into the grid, which I can verify by watching my meter going backwards. Obviously this latest installation has significant greenhouse gas savings making us a carbon neutral household. And the dollar benefits have got to be good? Our power bills are non existent. On current power prices, we’ve calculated that it should take roughly 14 years for a complete payback, but we expect it will take less than this with the future cost-of-power projections. Plus we were also eligible for a carbon credits once-off payment! There’s also the potential of it increasing the value of our house as the next owner will benefit from our capital outlay. Any other plans T ony? Due to the capacity of the inverter, we Tony? can’t put any more panels in place, but we are certainly looking forward to the next power outage! ...TONY FRANKEN