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  2. British Columbia carbon tax - Wikipedia

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    Petroleum product use in British Columbia declined after the implementation of the carbon tax in 2008. The British Columbia carbon tax has been in place since 2008. It is a British Columbia policy that adds additional carbon taxes to fossil fuels burned for transportation, home heating, and electricity and reduces personal income taxes and corporate taxes by a roughly equal amount.

  3. Motor fuel taxes in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The Government of Canada collects about $5 billion per year in excise taxes on gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuel [21] as well as approximately $1.6 billion per year from GST revenues on gasoline and diesel (net of input tax credits). The Canada Revenue Agency, a part of the government, collects these taxes.

  4. List of Canadian inventions, innovations, and discoveries

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    Canadienne cattle – the only breed of dairy cattle developed in Canada; Cymric cat – The Cymric is a muscular, compact, medium-to-large cat that weighs between 3.2 to 5.9 kg (7 to 13 lb), and Canada claims to have developed the long-haired variant; Canadian Arcott – a breed of domestic sheep native to Canada

  5. Ventilatory threshold - Wikipedia

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    Frangolias DD, Rhodes EC School of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise [1995, 27(7):1007-1013]: A government experiment to test ventilatory threshold was held between November and December 2004.

  6. Maximum operating depth - Wikipedia

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    The formula simply divides the absolute partial pressure of oxygen which can be tolerated (expressed in atm or bar) by the fraction of oxygen in the breathing gas, to calculate the absolute pressure at which the mix can be breathed. (for example, 50% nitrox can be breathed at twice the pressure of 100% oxygen, so divide by 0.5, etc.).

  7. Burnaby Refinery - Wikipedia

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    The Burnaby Refinery is an oil refinery located in the city of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada owned by Parkland Fuel Corp. The facility refines crude and synthetic oil into gasoline, diesel, jet fuels, asphalts, heating fuels, heavy fuel oils, butanes, and propane.

  8. LNG Canada - Wikipedia

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    However, the LNG Canada project is the recipient of tax incentives. The British Columbian government, led by John Horgan, offered the project a break on the British Columbia carbon tax, as well as the provincial sales tax. [12] The total subsidies for the project are valued at $5.35 billion. [9]

  9. Fraction of inspired oxygen - Wikipedia

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    Fraction of inspired oxygen (F I O 2), correctly denoted with a capital I, [1] is the molar or volumetric fraction of oxygen in the inhaled gas. Medical patients experiencing difficulty breathing are provided with oxygen-enriched air, which means a higher-than-atmospheric F I O 2.