by Letters to the editor on Tuesday December 29 2020
To The Editor:
I have some concerns about the recent hype and media coverage from West Kootenay EcoSociety 100% Renewable Energy Plan , that is being brought by the NGO before a number of local municipalities for adoption.
In the next decade the BC NDP Ministry of Forest plans to clear-cut and truck at least 100,000 loads of old growth forest from the Lardeau-Duncan River drainages and Trout Lake.
The CO2 release from the exposed ancient forest soils is vast. The C02 release from the trucking is vast. The loss of these healthy intact ancient temperate ecosystems will cause extinction to dozens of endangered species.