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Indicator: AAT-24 Annual incinerator fuel usage

Data

What the data mean

The data shows decreases in fuel usage across all stations over the reporting period, particularly for Casey. The seasonal trend in usage (i.e. more usage in summer months) reflects greater station staff numbers present during the warmer months.

Data Limitations

Nil known

Issues for which this is an indicator and why

Australian Antarctic Territory - Environment - Human Pressures on the environment 

This indicator is a measure of the amount of fuel used to incinerate waste at the stations. Each station has a high temperature incinerator that is used to incinerate kitchen waste and some packaging waste. The incinerator is only used when there is sufficient waste to warrant a burn. Over winter, this can be weekly. Over summer, this can be daily. The amount of fuel used for waste incineration contributes to environmental impact of human activities through emissions released.

Other indicators for this issue:

• AAT-17 Types and concentrations of long range pollutants from outside Antarctica reaching Antarctica 
• AAT-18 Annual tourist ship visits and tourist numbers 
• AAT-19 Annual catch in tonnes of marine species harvested in Australian Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters - legal and illegal 
• AAT-20 Fishing by-catch numbers and/or weight taken as bycatch 
• AAT-21 Station and ship person days 
• AAT-22 Wastewater - biological oxygen demand of wastewater discharged 
• AAT-23 Annual fuel usage of generator sets and boilers 
• AAT-25 Annual total of fuel used by vehicles 
• AAT-26 Annual total potable water consumption 
• AAT-27 Volume of runoffs and pollutants/emissions from stations 
• CO-16 Status of Australian fisheries 
• CO-17 Change in species and trophic structure of fish species caught 
• CO-19 Estimated tonnage taken by illegal fishing; estimated number of illegal boats, estimated number of individuals of threatened species taken 
• CO-21 Non-target effects: Number and/or weight taken as bycatch, and change since introduction of exclusion devices