First Name | Rebecca |
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Last Name | Brown |
Email Address | rebeccabrown@volcano.net |
Affiliation | a woman who lives with trees |
Subject | Cap & Trade on G.H. Gases by allowing clear cutting |
Comment | I have to say that I continue to be totally bewildered that CARB is even considering the possibility that cutting down trees, even if planting new ones, can be considered a method for offset. Where does one start to make sense of that?! First, how can the carbon used up by inputs to cut the trees, inputs to send them off to whatever may be their end use, and the inputs for those end uses possibly be considered as a trade for somebody else's carbon outputs? How does cutting down a tree that sequesters carbon and replacing it with a sapling provide the same carbon savings??? I could go on in this vein, but perhaps I'm looking at it in all the wrong way! It has been offered to me that this is just a gimme to SPI in response to a giveya for CARB. It may be that "CARB" isn't the real recipient, but someone(s) who can push this decision. Perhaps CARB has just fallen down the rabbit hole like Alice and needs to come back to the real world. None of these satisfy and the justifications you provide for PR don't either. Nevertheless, regardless of my efforts to understand the road CARB is going down, my response is that this cap & trade process WRONG!!!! Please, act with integrity. Respect the citizens of this state, the nation, the world. California has been a leader, even with flaws, on protection of the environment. This direction you are taking turns everything else around that we are trying to accomplish in response to climate change, carbon pollution, etc., etc. I am not vain enough to believe that my little email of disappointment and begging is going to steer your big boat in a wholesome direction. But, maybe you will receive enough little emails, especially from very intelligent and persuasive people, that you will listen and stop this travesty. This is being sent by an Amador County resident who is familiar with SPI. I don't want to see the slash they will be leaving behind by clear cutting in this county going to the probable new biomass facility in Buena Vista that will be counting on that feedstock to keep it running. Thank you, Rebecca Brown rebeccabrown@volcano.net |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2010-12-14 17:47:25 |
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