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The Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act [a] (French: Loi sur la tarification de la pollution causée par les gaz à effet de serre) is a Canadian federal law establishing a set of minimum national standards for carbon pricing in Canada to meet emission reduction targets under the Paris Agreement. [2]
Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick refused to impose their own emission-pricing systems, so the federal pricing came into effect on April 1. Residents of the four provinces pay more for gasoline and heating fuel. The "starting rate added 4.4 cents to the price of a litre of gas, about four cents to a cubic metre of natural gas".
In response, British Gas workers went on strike between January and June 2021, when workers accepted a new pay deal. [25] In 2023, British Gas came under criticism after a series of media stories highlighting their poor customer service [26] and practice of breaking into homes to force people onto pre-payment meters. [27]
It operates in the North Sea (4% of oil production), Western Canada (93% of oil / 97% of gas production), and West Africa (3% of oil / 2% of gas production). In 2011, its revenue was $14.625 billion, MV 48.379 bn. [ 12 ] In last quarter of 2011 company production leaped by a significant margin and stayed there: 2011 production: 657,599 b/d in ...
The 6% rate is effective for goods and services effective March 23, 2017. [15] Effective April 1, 2017, New Homes, restaurant meals and other prepared food and beverages are subject to PST. [ 16 ] There is a separate 10% liquor consumption tax.
BG Group plc was a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On 8 April 2015, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire BG Group for $70 billion, subject to regulatory and shareholder agreement.
“Spire West residential customers currently pay approximately $0.79 per Ccf of natural gas. Under this filing, the rate will increase to approximately $0.92 per Ccf,” the commission wrote in a ...
Other energy sources include ethanol, biodiesel, propane, compressed natural gas (CNG), electric batteries charged from an external source, and hydrogen. Canada, like most countries, has excise taxes and other taxes on gasoline, diesel, and other liquid and gas motor fuels (collectively called fuel taxes ), and also taxes electricity at various ...