11DCrediting period for biomethane conversion and displacement projects

11D Crediting period for biomethane conversion and displacement projects

(1) For paragraph 69(3)(b) and subparagraph 70(3)(d)(ii) of the Act, if a wastewater project is a biomethane conversion and displacement project that, during its crediting period or periods:

(a) does not treat eligible wastewater by emissions destruction; or

(b) does not treat eligible wastewater by emissions destruction for more than a total period of 84 calendar months;

the period of 12 years is specified.

(2) However, if:

(a) a project was a biomethane conversion and displacement project at the start of the 8th year of its crediting period; and

(b) before the crediting period ends under subsection (1), the total period for which eligible wastewater has been treated by emissions destruction exceeds 84 calendar months;

the crediting period ends at the start of the 85th calendar month in which emissions destruction was carried out.

(3) For this section and the inclusion of information in the offsets report in accordance with paragraph 42A(d):

(a) emissions destruction is carried out in a calendar month if at any point during 3 or more days in the calendar month eligible wastewater is treated by emissions destruction; and

(b) the total calendar months of emissions destruction do not need to be consecutive; and

(c) a calendar month after eligible wastewater is first treated by emissions destruction is presumed to be a month during which eligible wastewater is treated by emissions destruction if there is no evidence to the contrary.

(4) For this section, emissions destruction is not considered to have been carried out by the project during a calendar month if the project proponent chooses to exclude conversion abatement attributable to emissions destruction when working out net abatement amounts under Part 4 for that calendar month.

Note: See subparagraph 12A(b)(ii).