Number

Calendar Year	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
BC Hydro: Legally Reportable	36	26	28	37	51
BC Hydro: Total Volume (litres)	5,269	4,370	5,225	4,532	18,765
Legally Reportable, CEA total	1,150	*597	no data	no data	no data
Total Volume (litres), CEA total	730,168	*588,161	no data	no data	no data
BC Hydro Fish Incidents	29	22	20	23	36
BC Hydro Pesticide Incidents	1	1	0	0	0
Fines imposed due to non-compliance (No.)	NR	NR	NR	NR	0
Cost of fines due to non-compliance ($)	NR	NR	NR	NR	0

NR – not reported

Reportable spills are any volume over the provincial spill reporting quantities. Reportable petroleum spills are any volume over 100 litres spilled to land or any amount spilled to water. Threshold reporting volumes for other substances vary from one litre or kilogram to 200 litres or kilograms, depending on the substance. The number of spills has increased due to an increase in human error and equipment failure incidents. Spill volumes for calendar year 2007 include two large spills: 12,000 litres of transformer oil from a vandalized spare transformer, and 1,500 litres of high pH wastewater that was released to the ground after a hose escaped from a containment system at a construction site. Spill volumes are reported on a calendar year to correspond to the same reporting period for the CEA benchmarking data.

Fish incidents refer to those incidents that are externally reportable to regulatory agencies, as required by the Fisheries Act, Fish Protection Act, Water Act, or that fall under the Water License Agreements issued to the individual generating facilities. Pesticide incidents are those that involve the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, Pesticide Products Act, Waste Management Act, Special Waste Regulations, or Pesticide Product Control Act. The number of fish incidents has increased due to the implementation fo water licence requirements. The number of pesticide incidents remains at historical levels. Fish and pesticide incidents are for the latest fiscal year (i.e., 2005 is for fiscal 2006). The British Columbia Transmission Corporation release data is not included in the above total from 2003 onward.