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Huron -Bruce Liberal Association's Allan Thompson with Phil
Beard, General Manager of the Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority.
Huron -Bruce Liberals
donate to help offset
the carbon footprint
Allan Thompson, the fed-
eral Liberal candidate in
Huron -Bruce
in the recent election, has
made a donation to the
Maitland Valley Conserva-
tion Authority to help offset
the carbon footprint caused
by driving thousands of kilo-
metres while on the cam-
paign trail.
Thompson shared details
about his carbon offset
donation at Wednesday's
meeting of the executive of
the Huron -Bruce Federal
Liberal Association. Earlier
in the day, he met with Phil
Beard, general manager of
the Maitland Valley Conser-
vation Authority (MVCA) at
the authority's office in
Wroxeter to make the
donation.
"Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau and his govern-
ment have made clear that
addressing climate change is
one of the key challenges of
our time, " Thompson said.
"That's why it appealed to
me when Mr. Beard sug-
gested back during the elec-
tion campaign that I should
use the Authority's 'foot-
prints to forests' calculator to
figure out the number of
trees to plant to compensate
for the fossil fuel I burned
during campaign,"
the n,"
P g
Thompson said.
On its FootprintsToFor-
ests.com website, h
the con-
servation authority P
explains
that your carbon footprint is
the greenhouse gas
emissions released by typical
aspects of your lifestyle, such
as vehicle fuel use. Trees
help to reduce the impacts of
climate change and also pro-
vide other benefits such as
biodiversity and improved
water quality.
During the 11 -week elec-
tion campaign - one of the
longest in Canadian history
- Thompson put about
13,000 kilometres on his
vehicle, a 2014 Jeep Com-
pass. According to the car-
bon footprint calculator,
which factors in the vehicle
type and fuel consumption,
Thompson's campaigning
resulted in 3.28 tonnes of
CO2 emission. So he needed
to pay for the planting of 10
trees at a cost of $55 to help
compensate for his carbon
footprint.
Beard said that the MVCA
will plant the trees at one of
its conservation areas. He
also explained that the foot-
print calculator compen-
sates for the CO2 emission
over the growing period of
the tree throughout its life-
time. So that would be 0.3/
tonnes of CO2 based on the
average rate of softwood or
hardwood tree growth. The
calculator has been set up
that way to encourage more
people to take part in the
P
program, he said.
"Climate change and how
we deal with it will be the
defining our genera-
tion
of enera-
tion and the next," Beard
said.
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