Archived: Air pollutant emission inventory report: acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

The Pollutant Inventories and Reporting Division of Environment and Climate Change Canada wishes to acknowledge the individuals and organizations that contributed to the Air Pollutant Emission Inventory Report: 1990 to 2016 and emission summary tables for submission to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) under the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Pollution (CLRTAP). The Division would like to highlight the contributions of the following inventory compilers, authors and reviewers, whose work helped to improve this year’s inventory report and estimates:

Akmare Ali, Alice Au, Warren Baker, Pegah Baratzadeh, Dominique Blain, Sandra Bolanos, Susan Charles, Corey Flemming, Angie Giammario, Chia Ha, Jason Hawirko, Richard Joannette, Chelsea Kealey, Lyna Lapointe-Elmrabti, Emil Laurin,  Janice Leung, Chang Liang, Douglas MacDonald, Jackie Mercer, Frank Neitzert, Lindsay Pratt, Krishty Reza, Adam Rowlands, Catherine Robert, Sara Ryan, Duane Smith, Steve Smyth, Brett Taylor, My Chau Thai, Shawn Tobin, Kristine Tracey and Nick Zhao.

The compilation of the emission summary tables for the UNECE submission under the CLRTAP was the work of Richard Joannette. The APEI database was managed by Richard Joannette and Catherine Robert.

Coordination of the Air Pollutant Emission Inventory Report carried out by Angie Giammario, Janice Leung, Lindsay Pratt, Catherine Robert and Sara Ryan. Compilation and layout of the report was carried out by Marida Waters and David Maher. Publication support was provided by Danièle Lafortune. Translation services were provided by Public Services and Procurement Canada.

Special thanks to the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) Data Collection Section of the Program Integration Division of Environment and Climate Change Canada for providing database extracts from the 2016 NPRI.

We would also like to acknowledge the efforts of our colleagues from the Environment, Energy and Transportation Statistics Division at Statistics Canada, especially Joe St. Lawrence, Donna Stephens, Flo Magmanlac, Michael Warbanski, Lloyd Widdis, Jiahua Li, Dores Zuccarini, Fatou-Kiné Niang, Kristin Loiselle-Lapointe, Norman Fyfe and Anne-Marie Lebel for their help in compiling, analyzing and interpreting Canada’s energy supply and demand data, as well as Sean Fagan, Amélie Angers and Vincent Courchaine from the Centre for Special Business Projects for their data confidentiality assessment and data sharing dissemination services. We also wish to thank the Environment, Energy and Transportation Statistics Division Director, Kevin Roberts and Assistant Directors, Michael Scrim and René Beaudoin for their support.

Of the numerous people and organizations that provided support and information, we are especially indebted to the many individuals from the federal and provincial governments, industry and industry associations, consulting firms and universities who provided technical and scientific support.

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