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The Wood Buffalo Environmental Association: Monitoring in a Multi-stakeholder, Consensus-Based Setting KEVIN PERCY PHD EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WOOD BUFFALO ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION, FORT MCMURRAY, ALBERTA, CANADA Presentation to the AWMA CPANS

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The Wood Buffalo Environmental Association: Monitoring in a Multi-stakeholder, Consensus-Based Setting

KEVIN PERCY PHD

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WOOD BUFFALO ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION, FORT MCMURRAY, ALBERTA, CANADA

Presentation to the AWMA CPANS “Air Quality in Saskatchewan”, Saskatoon, SK. January 17, 2014

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CAPP (2013)

Canada’s Oil Sand Deposits

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Bitumen Extraction Technologies

Drilling 80% of reserves Mining 20% of reserves Drilling 80% of reserves

Upgrading Upgrading

Mining 20% of reserves

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Unique Mix of Emission Sources

NASA/MODIS May 16, 2011

Off road diesel Fixed and fugitive Forest fires Re-suspended Dust On-road

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Athabasca Oil Sands Emissions (t/d)

Source Type NOx SO2 PM2.5 Stacks 211.41 361.25 13.37 Plant Fugitives

  • Mine Fleet

75.03 1.88 2.86 Mine Face

  • Tailings Areas
  • Non-industrial

23.56 0.76 1.86 Total 310.00 363.89 18.09 Frontier Project Environmental Impact Assessment (2011)

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Wood Buffalo Environmental Association

Our Mission: “WBEA monitors air quality and air quality related environmental impacts to generate accurate and transparent information which enables stakeholders to make informed decisions”

  • Multi-stakeholder
  • Consensus-based
  • Objective
  • Not-for-profit

Members Open House May 16

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WBEA Membership

Aboriginal Fort McKay First Nations Fort McKay Métis Local 63 Fort McMurray Métis Local 1935 Fort McMurray First Nation 468 Chipewyan Prairie Dene First Nation Christina River Dene Nation Council Environmental Fort McMurray Environmental Association Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development Government Alberta Environment and SRD Alberta Health Services Alberta Health and Wellness Energy Resources Conservation Board Environment Canada Health Canada Parks Canada Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo Saskatchewan Environment Industry Members Athabasca Oil Corp. Brion Energy Corp. Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. ConocoPhillips Canada Cenovus Energy Inc. Devon Canada Corp.. Finning Canada Hammerstone Corp. Husky Energy Imperial Oil MEG Energy Corp. Nexen Inc. Shell Canada Energy Inc. Statoil Canada Ltd. Suncor Energy Sunshine Oil Sands Syncrude Canada Ltd. Teck Resources Ltd. Total E&P Canada Ltd. Williams Energy

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* 3 New Membership Applications received

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WBEA Governance

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WBEA Science Team

  • WBEA Members

– Considerable in-kind contribution

  • Traditional Knowledge
  • Universities = 10
  • Institutes = 4
  • Private Contractors = 7
  • Government Agencies = 2
  • Science Advisors = 4
  • Ex-officio science advisory board = 5

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Science Team: 40 scientists from Canada, U.S., Europe (>3,500 peer-reveiwed publications)

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Functional Operations Structure

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WBEA Board WBEA Governance Committee Executive Director

  • Dr. Kevin Percy

AATC/TEEM Program Manager Network Supervisor

Air Technicians (8)

Technical Specialists (2) Field Biologists (2) Hemp Program Manager HEMP Technician Lead Scientist Atmospheric Chemist Science Advisors TEK Data Systems and Management (3) Business Manager (vacant) Human Resources Accounting (2) Office Administration- FOC/Safety Office Reception Aquatics Monitoring Program Manager Data Systems/Management Executive Assistant Communications (2)

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WBEA Facilities

Field Operations Centre Main Office “On site” specialists, technicians, support staff

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WBEA Multi-stakeholder Model

  • We measure, evaluate and communicate (two way)
  • We reach agreement by consensus
  • We share knowledge amongst Members
  • A stakeholder concerns, science-balanced process
  • We build monitoring systems that work for everyone
  • This has led to practical, positive change in environmental

management!!

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Driver cabin Sampling platform Sampling modules Muffler Flange connecting to the body Exhaust pipe Sampling port Thermocouple Sample transfer line

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Air Monitoring Stations

16 Ambient Monitoring Stations 1 Mobile Station

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4 Portable Stations 241 Parameters Measured

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Ambient Air Monitoring

Continuous SO2, NOx, NH3, PM2.5, O3, H2S/TRS, THC, CH4/NMHC, CO, meteorology 2 tall met. towers Time Integrated PM10, metals, PAH, VOC Passives (SO2, NO2, O3, NH3, HNO3) Specialized PFGC (TRS, VOC, HC) Electronic nose Dicot for PM Trace SO2, NOx, NH3 Ambient ion monitoring 241 parameters/86 for compliance Technical Projects Automated precipitation sampler Passive validation Solar-powered denuders

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Air Monitoring Network Vignette

  • Air Monitoring Network vignette available on wbea.org
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Percy (2013)

20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 Mildred Lake (AMS 2) Mannix (AMS 5) Lower Camp (AMS 11) Fort McKay South (AMS 13) Albian Muskeg River (AMS 16) CNRL Horizon (AMS 15) Millennium Mine (AMS 12) Buffalo Viewpoint (AMS 4) Fort McKay (AMS 1) Patricia McInnes (AMS 6) Anzac (AMS 14) Athabasca Valley (AMS 7) Fort Chipewyan (AMS 8) SO2 (ppb) maximum 99th percentile 90th percentile 1-hour objective (172 ppb)

  • ----------------------industry stations-------------------------- ------community stations------

Sulphur Dioxide - 2012

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Millennium Mine (AMS 12) Albian Muskeg River (AMS 16) Fort McKay South (AMS 13) CNRL Horizon (AMS 15) Athabasca Valley (AMS 7) Fort McKay (AMS 1) Patricia McInnes (AMS 6) Anzac (AMS 14) Fort Chipewyan (AMS 8)

NO2 (ppb) maximum 99th percentile 90th percentile

  • -----------industry stations------------ --------community stations--------

1-hour NO2 objective (159 ppb)

Nitrogen Dioxide - 2012

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Total Reduced Sulphur/ Hydrogen Sulphide - 2012

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82 58 12 4 3 3 4 2 2 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Mannix (AMS 5) Mildred Lake (AMS 2) Lower Camp (AMS 11) CNRL Horizon (AMS 15) Millennium Mine (AMS 12) Barge Landing (AMS 9) Fort McKay South (AMS 13) Buffalo Viewpoint (AMS 4) Fort McKay (AMS 1) Athabasca Valley (AMS 7) Patricia McInnes (AMS 6) Anzac (AMS 14)

TRS/H2S (ppb) maximum 99th percentile 95th percentile 90th percentile

1-hour H2S objective (10 ppb)

  • ----------------industry stations------------------- -community stations-
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New Measurement Technologies

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Focused Monitoring: Conklin Air Quality 2012 (6 months)

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Specialized Measurements: 2010 MOU With Environment Canada

Hg in ambient air

Dry and wet PAC AMS 5, 11, 13 Speciated/TGM Hg and Hourly BTEX Percy et al. (2012)

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Data Systems and Data Management

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WBEA DATA QC and QA

  • WBEA QAP for daily QC, instrument calibration
  • EC NAPS SOP for PAH and VOV
  • US EPA FRM for other parameters
  • Annual, independent third part network audit
  • Expert US/Canada Network Review 2012
  • AATC monthly review of internal QC report

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WBEA Standard Operating Protocols

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WBEA’s SOPs are documented and now publically available at www.wbea.org

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WBEA Systems Development

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Terrestrial Effects Monitoring

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Status, Changes, and Trends in Indicators and Endpoints

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Forest Health Network

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See Forest Health Survey Phase 1: Field Sample Collection, on YouTube

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Measuring Uncertainty in Passive Data

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Fraczek (2013)

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Integration of Inputs With Responses: Linking cause-effect for decisions

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30 m tower

Solar panels

Stand, Long- Term, Regionally Representative (6 yrs.) Stand Edges, early warning, Local (3 yrs.)

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Measurement of Forest Health Indicators, Endpoints, Values

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Peatland Monitoring

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Photos: Vile et al.

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Sulphur Deposition (kg/ha/year)

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(no background) (with background)

Davies (2012)

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Traditional Environmental Knowledge

  • Berry Health Project 2010-2013

– Quality and condition of blueberries, cranberries

  • food quality and contaminants

– Twinned traditional knowledge - western science

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Human Exposure Monitoring

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Odour Speciation and the Community Odour Monitoring Project

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Electronic Nose Fort McKay Reduced sulphur and VOCs Fort McKay WBEA App for In Place Reporting by Community Odor Project Volunteers See www.wbea.org Training “Nasal Rangers”

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HEMP – Community Odour Monitoring Program

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Integrating Air and Land Systems

Apportionment of Complex Multiple Source Emissions and Deposition for Ecological Effects Assessment By Receptor Modeling

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WBEA Source Emissions Monitoring

Why “Real World” emission factors ?

  • The “real” contribution from source types to

air emissions mass/chemical footprint

  • source type attribution in receptor modeling

for pollutant mitigation

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Dust Haulers Stacks

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  • 1. Measuring and Mapping Trace

Element, S, and N Concentrations

359 sites visited by helicopter in 2008 Two lichen species sampled

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  • 2. Defining Patterns in Receptors

Distance from Mines (km)

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Concentration (ug/g)

10 20 30 40 Ni V r2 = 0.780 (Third Order) r2 = 0.767 (Third Order) Landis et al. (2011)

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  • 3. Confirming Source Contribution:

Chemical Fingerprints in Sources and Sinks

1.960 2.000 2.040 2.080 2.120 2.160 0.800 0.820 0.840 0.860 0.880 0.900 208Pb/206Pb 207Pb/206Pb

Source Samples

Processed Oil Sand Oil Sand Tailings Sand

2008 Lichens (121 Sites)

1.960 2.000 2.040 2.080 2.120 2.160 0.800 0.820 0.840 0.860 0.880 0.900 207Pb/206Pb 208 Pb/206 Pb

Tailings Sand

Oil Sand

Processed Graney et al. (2011)

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  • 4. Defining Source Contribution to

Lichens at the Landscape Level?

Oil Sand & Processed 15% Fugitive Tailing Sand 19% Combustion 23% Haul Road & Limestone 15% General Anthropogenic 15% Mn/Biochemistry 7% Unexplained 6% Other 28%

Landis et al. (2012)

Positive Matrix Factorization attributed 94% of variability in 42 trace elements, S, N at 121 lichen sites in the AOS Supported by S, N, O, Pb, Hg stable isotope tracer studies

  • n fate of emissions

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Open Communication

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Data and Results

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WBEA Air Quality Data Are Transparent and Timely

Free App

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Printed and Electronic Materials

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WBEA Engagement and Outreach

Federal/Provincial Ministers 2012/2013 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Toronto School visits Regional Science Fair

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Dissemination of Peer-Reviewed Science

"...a model of what monitoring should do - thorough and sensitive enough that the information can be used to improve environmental management “ D. Schindler

International Symposium May 2011

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Special Oil Sands Issue

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WBEA Is Now Funded Under and Contributing to JOSM

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  • Ambient Air
  • Source Emissions Measurement
  • Deposition Measurement
  • Forest/Peatland Monitoring
  • In Discussions on a Component of JOSM Water Monitoring
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Some Closing Thoughts

  • The multistakeholder,

consensus-based approach is challenging, but worthwhile

  • The WBEA experience

has been positive

  • A consensus based

balance of monitoring that meets stakeholder needs, while being scientifically robust can be achieved.

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Some Closing Thoughts

  • Every air network design is

unique as defined by compliance, ambient and/or investigative requirements

  • Stakeholder input is

important in defining these requirements

  • Open and transparent data

access is important for network credibility

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Thank You!