To the editor:
Re: "Questions remain about carbon offsets," April 3.
Les Leyne's column is very good but there is one paragraph that might leave the wrong impression. Les comments: "It leads into widespread skepticism about schools and hospitals having to fund corporations' greening efforts. The extraordinarily bitter argument that ran through the audit further inflamed the reaction."
The auditor general found that almost 60 per cent of the offsets ($4.5 million) went to The Nature Conservancy of Canada's Dark-woods Forest Carbon project. The AG found that this project was well along prior to the eligibility date, did not consider carbon credits until after the fact, and its calculations greatly overstated the amount of carbon offsets. If Les dug a little deeper, as MLA Bob Simpson has done, he would find that it was the environmental movement that was upset about the AG blowing the whistle on one of their own, not corporations as the paragraph suggests.
Tom Lundgren, Vancouver
