{"id":172,"date":"2005-04-18T14:49:37","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T18:49:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:44","slug":"alberta_fee_means_rise_in_pc_costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/04\/18\/alberta_fee_means_rise_in_pc_costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta fee means rise in PC costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworldcanada.com\/Pages\/Docbase\/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-443158ae-4353-4643-a098-4d986fd634ac\">itWorldCanada<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Each computer his company purchases may be as much as $30 more expensive today than they were this time last year, but you won\u2019t hear Darren Ruhr complaining about the premium.<br \/>\nRuhr, IT director at Precision Drilling Corp., a Calgary-based contract drilling supplier servicing the oil and gas industry, figures it\u2019s money well spent. It\u2019s a government-imposed fee, new this year. The extra money is supposed to support computer recycling efforts in Alberta.<br \/>\nAccording to the Alberta government, the $30 could go a long way to improving the collection, dismantling and disposal of computer parts in the province \u2014 pieces that could release harmful material (mercury, for example) into the environment if handled improperly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From itWorldCanada: Each computer his company purchases may be as much as $30 more expensive today than they were this time last year, but you won\u2019t hear Darren Ruhr complaining about the premium. Ruhr, IT director at Precision Drilling Corp., a Calgary-based contract drilling supplier servicing the oil and gas industry, figures it\u2019s money well &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}