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Ben Parfitt is a resource policy analyst with the B.C. office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Ottawa’s fixation with trees and climate: what exactly are we planting?

  • By two significant measures, last year’s effort to plant 300 million tree seedlings in Canada’s most forest-rich province was a remarkable achievement. Not only
Opinion | BY BEN PARFITT | June 16, 2021
The considerable carbon debits associated with wildfires, logging, and wood pellet burning are left largely unaddressed by Ottawa, casting serious doubts on claims that planting two billion trees will lower Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, writes Ben Parfitt. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Ottawa’s fixation with trees and climate: what exactly are we planting?

Opinion | BY BEN PARFITT | June 16, 2021
  • By two significant measures, last year’s effort to plant 300 million tree seedlings in Canada’s most forest-rich province was a remarkable achievement. Not only

Ottawa’s fixation with trees and climate: what exactly are we planting?

Opinion | BY BEN PARFITT | June 16, 2021
  • By two significant measures, last year’s effort to plant 300 million tree seedlings in Canada’s most forest-rich province was a remarkable achievement. Not only
The considerable carbon debits associated with wildfires, logging, and wood pellet burning are left largely unaddressed by Ottawa, casting serious doubts on claims that planting two billion trees will lower Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, writes Ben Parfitt. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Canada’s forestry and tree-planting policies must count both sides of the ledger

  • There was every reason to believe in the early spring of this year that the most ambitious tree-planting program in British Columbia’s history would
Opinion | BY BEN PARFITT | December 9, 2020
A tree logged and turned immediately into pellets is a very different thing from a tree logged and turned into boards that then frame a house, writes Ben Parfitt. Unsplash photograph by Markus Spiske

Canada’s forestry and tree-planting policies must count both sides of the ledger

Opinion | BY BEN PARFITT | December 9, 2020
  • There was every reason to believe in the early spring of this year that the most ambitious tree-planting program in British Columbia’s history would

Canada’s forestry and tree-planting policies must count both sides of the ledger

Opinion | BY BEN PARFITT | December 9, 2020
  • There was every reason to believe in the early spring of this year that the most ambitious tree-planting program in British Columbia’s history would
A tree logged and turned immediately into pellets is a very different thing from a tree logged and turned into boards that then frame a house, writes Ben Parfitt. Unsplash photograph by Markus Spiske

Claims of a clean, green energy future based on an electrified natural gas industry must not go unchallenged

  • VANCOUVER—In late August, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Vancouver to announce that the federal government had agreed to financially support a new hydroelectric
Opinion | BY BEN PARFITT | December 2, 2019

Claims of a clean, green energy future based on an electrified natural gas industry must not go unchallenged

Opinion | BY BEN PARFITT | December 2, 2019
  • VANCOUVER—In late August, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Vancouver to announce that the federal government had agreed to financially support a new hydroelectric

Claims of a clean, green energy future based on an electrified natural gas industry must not go unchallenged

Opinion | BY BEN PARFITT | December 2, 2019
  • VANCOUVER—In late August, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Vancouver to announce that the federal government had agreed to financially support a new hydroelectric

A burning issue: as greenhouse gas emissions from forest fires grow, Ottawa has role to play in restoration

  • As one of the largest and the most extensively forested countries in the world, Canada faces unique challenges in tackling climate change. Wildfires are
Opinion | BY BEN PARFITT | March 25, 2019
Many emissions from Canadian forests are attributed to 'slash burning,' where forest companies deliberately burn the waste wood littering the ground after logging. These emissions are significant enough that in British Columbia, the environment minister is mandated to extend the province’s carbon tax to such operations, writes Ben Parfitt. Photograph courtesy Pixabay

A burning issue: as greenhouse gas emissions from forest fires grow, Ottawa has role to play in restoration

Opinion | BY BEN PARFITT | March 25, 2019
  • As one of the largest and the most extensively forested countries in the world, Canada faces unique challenges in tackling climate change. Wildfires are

A burning issue: as greenhouse gas emissions from forest fires grow, Ottawa has role to play in restoration

Opinion | BY BEN PARFITT | March 25, 2019
  • As one of the largest and the most extensively forested countries in the world, Canada faces unique challenges in tackling climate change. Wildfires are
Many emissions from Canadian forests are attributed to 'slash burning,' where forest companies deliberately burn the waste wood littering the ground after logging. These emissions are significant enough that in British Columbia, the environment minister is mandated to extend the province’s carbon tax to such operations, writes Ben Parfitt. Photograph courtesy Pixabay
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