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Other long-term liabilities (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

Other long-term liabilities

Schedule of other long-term liabilities

		2015			2014
Asset retirement obligations		$	48.5		$	51.2
Net pension liability			0.6			3.1
Deferred revenue			0.5			0.9
Accrued LTIP and director share units			1.1			1.1
Other			2.5			3.3
		$	53.2		$	59.6

Rollforward of asset retirement obligations

		2015			2014
Asset retirement obligations beginning of year		$	51.2		$	54.0
Accretion of asset retirement obligations			1.1			1.3
Translation adjustments			(3.8)			(2.1)
Sale of Greeley			—			(2.0)
Asset retirement obligations, end of year		$	48.5		$	51.2

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Tabular disclosure of the changes in carrying amount of a liability for asset retirement obligations, for changes such as new obligations, changes in estimates of existing obligations, spending on existing obligations, property dispositions, and foreign currency translation.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 410
-SubTopic 30
-Section 50
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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6393242&loc=d3e13201-110859

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