The Cheakamus Community Forest could soon be earning money for its own protection through sales of carbon credits.
The CCF board is now in discussions with the B.C. government to be allowed to mix current logging of the forest with selling the credits, a scheme of making carbon producers pay money to support ecological projects that remove it from the atmosphere.”The province has agreed to let us go ahead but we still need to agree on percentages (of land used in each case),” CCF chair Peter Ackhurst said. Mar 29, 2012 Pique Newsmagazine
The CCF board is now in discussions with the B.C. government to be allowed to mix current logging of the forest with selling the credits, a scheme of making carbon producers pay money to support ecological projects that remove it from the atmosphere.”The province has agreed to let us go ahead but we still need to agree on percentages (of land used in each case),” CCF chair Peter Ackhurst said. Mar 29, 2012 Pique Newsmagazine
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