Guidance Documents

The following is a series of guidance documents prepared for the Alberta Offset System. It is highly recommended that these documents be reviewed to ensure main criteria of the system are met.

• Alberta Offsets Guidance Document and
• Alberta Verification Guidance Document.

The following Alberta Offset System Quantification Protocols have all undergone three rounds of Technical Stakeholder Review and have been approved by Alberta Environment for use in the Alberta Offset System as eligible project-types. For more information on developing a quantification protocol for the Alberta Offset System, click here.

Approved Quantification Protocols

• Acid Gas Injection Quantification Protocol

• Aerobic Composting Quantification Protocol - Updated December 2008
  • Calculation Module (excel)
  
  
• Afforestation Quantification Protocol - **Protocol Under Review May 2009 (Retracted for revisions)
  • Calculation Module (excel)
    
    
• Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment Protocol
  
  
• Beef Feeding (Edible Oils) Quantification Protocol - Updated May 2008
  
  
• Beef Feeding (Reducing Days-On-Feed) Quantification Protocol - Updated August 2008
  

• Beef Lifecycle Quantification Protocol - Updated July 2009
  • Calculation Module (excel)

• Biofuel Quantification Protocol
  • Calculation Module (excel)

• Biogas Quantification Protocol
• Calculation Module (excel)

• Biomass Quantification Protocol
  • Calculation Module (excel)

• Energy Efficiency Quantification Protocol
  • Calculation Module (excel)
    
    
• Enhanced Oil Recovery Quantification Protocol
  • Calculation Module (excel)
    
    
• Enhanced Oil Recovery (Streamlined) Quantification Protocol
  • Calculation Module (excel)
    
    
• Landfill Bioreactor Quantification Protocol
  
  
• Landfill Gas Quantification Protocol
  • Calculation Module (excel)

• Modal Freight Shift Protocol - Updated November 2008
  • Alberta Modal Freight Shift Protocol Calculator (excel)

• Non-Incineration of Thermal Waste Quantification Protocol
  

• Pork Quantification Protocol
  • Calculation Module (excel)

• Road Rehabilitation Quantification Protocol
  
  
• Run-of-the-River Electricity System Quantification Protocol
  
  
• Solar Electricity Systems Quantification Protocol
  
  
• Tillage Quantification Protocol - Updated February 2009
  • Additional Guidance for Tillage Management Systems
  • Calculation Module (excel)
  
  In response to a number of project developers who have expressed an interest in applying the flexibility mechanism of the Tillage System Protocol or deriving regional custom coefficients for carbon sequestration, The Alberta Government has released two documents. The following documents provide important information on the policy surrounding the use of flexibility mechanisms and the development of custom coefficients in carbon sequestration protocols.
  • Soil Carbon Custom Co-Efficient/Protocols Guidance Documents
  • Carbon Sequestration Protocols: Custom Co-Efficients
  • Location of Boundary Line Between Parkland and Dry Prairie Zones for Tillage Protocol

• Waste Heat Recovery Quantification Protocol
• Calculation Module (excel)

• Waste Heat Recovery (Streamlined) Quantification Protocol
  • Calculation Module (excel)
    
    
• Wind-Powered Electricity Systems Quantification Protocol

Additional protocols are available in draft form

Disclaimer:

These calculators were developed based on existing protocols developed for the Alberta Offset System. Climate Change Central and Carbon Offset Solutions provides the calculators for convenience. Climate Change Central and Carbon Offset Solutions gives no warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability and completeness of any information, formulae or calculations provided through the use of the calculators and does not accept any liability for loss or damage of whatsoever nature, which may be attributable to the reliance on and use of the calculators.