Turcot is ‘green’ thanks to a controversial plant in India | The Bobr Times

Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People, for its part, denounces “a total absence of standards of transparency or accountability of those responsible”.

Then in July, another NHPC executive was arrested for demanding and accepting an $8,000 bribe from a subcontractor working on another phase of the project.

Most of the site’s emissions come from the private conglomerate KPH, which built the new interchange.

In December, our Bureau of Investigation revealed that these trees will take 100 years to compensate for the pollution from the construction site.

However, in March 2020, Gold Standard withdrew certification from NatureLab plantations following several compliance issues reported in a report by La Pressin the fall of 2019.

For example, the Saint-Bruno site was abandoned because the 13,000 black spruce trees planted did not survive.

Mr. Tremblay was to provide us with more details after a few checks.

It is rather a question of offsetting the emissions produced by the purchase of carbon credits for green projects or by planting trees, for example.

A carbon credit equivalent to the emission of one tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Before joining The Bobr Times, Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella.

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