National Pollutant Release Inventory: Facility Maps in Virtual Globe Format

Maps of industrial facilities reporting to Canada's National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) in KMZ format for use with virtual globe software. The data, provided by Environment and Climate Change Canada, cover the last two reporting years and can be filtered by province or industry type. Selecting a facility provides a summary report of its pollutant releases, disposals, and transfers.

Use Cases

• Visualizing the geographic distribution of pollutant-reporting facilities based on the map layers.
• Analyzing pollution sources by province or industry type based on the described filter capabilities.
• Investigating facility-level pollutant release, disposal, and transfer summaries based on the interactive report feature.

Strengths

• Data is provided in a standard geospatial format (KMZ) compatible with widely-used software like Google Earth.
• Includes data for the last two reporting years, providing a recent temporal snapshot.
• Offers interactive filtering by province and industry type, as described.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and reporting bias inherent to the NPRI program.

Provenance

Source

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Collection Method

Mandatory reporting by facilities to the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI).

Time Range

The last two reporting years.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 16:02:05.306428; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada