Carbon Neutral Government carbon offset portfolio

In the forestry industry, offset projects include fuel-switching initiatives:

• Chetwynd, Prince George and Elko: Canfor turns bark waste from its sawmills into energy. This reduces the use of natural gas. It also models how industry can:
  • Lower emissions
  • Support local clean technologies
  • Create economic opportunities in B.C. communities

In forestry, offset projects result from improved forest management practices:

• The Great Bear (South Central Coast): This project reduces timber harvest levels and protects large areas of forest that were once planned for logging. As a result, trees can continue to grow and store more carbon
• The Great Bear (North and Central Mid-Coast): This project reduces timber harvest levels in the world’s largest intact coastal temperate rainforest. It helps store more carbon and protect healthy ecosystems
• Great Bear Rainforest (Haida Gwaii): This project reduces forest activity, including harvesting and road building, allowing trees to remain in place and store more carbon. It also supports important Haida cultural sites
• The Cheakamus Community Forest project: This project increases long-term carbon storage by allowing trees to grow longer before harvest and by setting aside conservation areas

In agriculture, offset project work includes biomass fuel switching:

• Sun Select Delta: This project uses a biomass boiler and insulating curtains to heat greenhouses. This significantly reduces the use of natural gas

In the oil and gas sector, offsets come from electrification and increased fuel efficiency:

• Noel Electrification Project: This project replaced natural gas with grid electricity, solar and small thermal-electric back-up generators. These systems power compressors and other equipment at the gas production facility
• The Septimus Electrification Project: This project brings grid electricity to the remote natural gas processing plant. It replaces the use natural gas and significantly reduces environmental impact
• Blue Source: Blue source worked with several gas plants in northeast B.C. to install REMVue engine systems. This new technology improves fuel efficiency and captures vented emissions. The system significantly reduces greenhouse gases when compressing, as natural gas moves from well-sites to processing plants
• ARC Resources:  This award-winning project reduces emissions by replacing natural gas with electricity for compression. It also uses pressurized air to run the pneumatic control devices and instruments

In transportation, an offset project focuses on improving bus fuel efficiency:

• TransLink: This project replaces conventional diesel buses with more fuel-efficient diesel hybrids. This significantly reduces emissions in an already efficient mode of transportation

In clean technology, offset project work includes biomass gasification:

• Kruger Products: This project uses biomass gasification units generate steam to power its New Westminster mill. The units convert local wood waste into clean-burning syngas. It is the first of its kind in Canada’s pulp and paper industry, and has reduced the tissue mill’s carbon emissions by over 50 percent each year

In waste management, offset project work focused on managing and collecting landfill gases:

• Columbia Shuswap Regional District: This project captures methane from decomposing landfill waste. The gas is upgraded and injected into the FortisBC pipeline as renewable natural gas. Any untreated methane is destroyed through flaring