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Expenditures on environmental protection by industry and activity

  2000
  Total Environ-
mental monitoring
Environ-
mental assess-
ments and audits
Recla-
mation and decommis-
sioning
Wildlife and habitat protection
  Operating expenditures
  $ millions
Industry  
Logging 161.4 3.8 9.4 29.6 106.4
Oil and gas extraction 324.7 19.7 15.0 117.4 3.0
Mining 267.6 25.5 14.4 53.2 4.1
Electric power generation, transmission and distribution 255.8 9.1 16.4 23.0 6.8
Natural gas distribution1 6.1 0.2 0.3 0.5 ..
Food 140.7 15.5 3.6 7.6 0.5
Beverage and tobacco products1 23.4 1.1 1.1 0.0 ..
Wood products 143.7 8.5 5.0 18.8 17.5
Pulp, paper and paperboard mills 425.4 51.1 5.1 12.2 6.8
Petroleum and coal products 212.9 7.3 7.0 11.2 0.9
Chemicals 232.0 29.9 6.3 22.5 1.1
Non-metallic mineral products 43.6 2.9 1.9 5.0 0.7
Primary metals 490.6 40.4 8.6 28.4 2.0
Fabricated metal products 69.6 3.1 1.5 1.5 0.1
Transportation equipment 170.2 6.5 4.6 2.5 0.1
Pipeline transportation 61.0 5.2 6.8 18.2 3.9
Total operating expenditures 3,028.9 229.8 106.8 351.7 153.8
Other manufacturing2 241.7 .. .. .. ..
Total operating expenditures including "Other manufacturing" 3,270.6 .. .. .. ..
Note: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), 1997.
1. Operating expenditures on 'Wildlife and habitat protection' are included with expenditures on 'Other.'
2. Detail of the expenditure breakdown by type of environmental protection activity is only available for the listed industries.
Source: Statistics Canada, Environment Accounts and Statistics Division, Catalogue no. 16F0006XIE.
Last modified: 2004-05-25.

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