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  - ARMCHAIRMAYOR.CA - A La Une - 04/07/2024 16:58

CHARBONNEAU – Anti-greenwashing laws should apply to forestry industry

IF AN OLD-GROWTH TREE falls in the forest and is turned into sawdust, does anyone one care? Not if the tree is in the B.C interior. If the old-tree was on the coast, there would be howls of protests. Yet, here in the interior, our trees are being ground up into pellets and sent to the UK where they are burned to produce electricity. The plant owners claim they are “sustainable and legally harvested.” Burning trees is supposed to be carbon neutral but not when it takes minutes to burn and decades to grow. And they will probably never store the amount of carbon that the old trees did. The UK plant emits 12 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year but doesn’t have to add it to their emissions total. International carbon accounting rules state that greenhouse gas emissions from burning wood are counted in the country where the trees are felled as opposed to where they are burned. B.C. allows the illegal plunder of our forests and Canada has to add the CO2 emissions to our total. Doesn’t sound sustainable to me. The pellets are supposed to come from sawdust and sawmill residues, with the rest coming from [...]

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