National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) Downloadable Datasets - 1985 - 2008

Dataset Summary

Creator

Environment Canada

Subject Area

Nature and Environment

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Language

Bilingual (English and French) 

Date Published

2010-01-01 

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Description

Description

The National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) is Canada's public inventory of pollutant releases (to air, water and land), disposals and transfers for recycling. The NPRI includes: (1) Data and information on pollutant releases, disposals and transfers for recycling that is reported by facilities (more than 8000) and published by Environment Canada under the authority Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA 1999). (2) Comprehensive emission summaries and trends for key air pollutants, based on facility-reported data and emission estimates for other sources such as motor vehicles, residential heating, forest fires and agriculture. These pollutants include criteria air contaminants (the main pollutants contributing to smog, acid rain and/or poor air quality), several heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants. There are a number of important factors that should be considered prior to the use and interpretation of NPRI data and additional information is available on the NPRI web site. NPRI data is available in a number of formats: online query tools, downloadable databases and spreadsheets as well as map layers.  

Keywords

pollutant, pollution, emissions, environment, recycling, disposal, industry, chemical substances 

Program URL

http://www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/ 

Data Series URL

http://www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/default.asp?lang=en&n=0EC58C98-  

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Reference for Supplementary Documentation

http://www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/default.asp?lang=En&n=B5C1EAB8-1  

Coverage

Geographic Region Name

Canada 

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Time Period Coverage Start

1985-01-01 

Time Period Coverage End

2008-12-31 

File Information

Dataset Group Name

National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) Datasets 

Number of Datasets

20 

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