Managers of Whistler’s Cheakamus Community Forest (CCF) will find out shortly if the B.C. government will allow them to earn money by selling carbon credits.
Peter Ackhurst, chairman of the CCF, said the forest could partly earn its keep as a carbon sink, a natural reservoir that collects and neutralizes carbons released by human activity and industry, as soon as September. “We’re optimistic,” he said… He believed the potential precedence set, since CCF is the first forest to seek this in British Columbia, could have implications for other community forests Apr 12, 2012 Pique Newsmagazine
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