B.C. School Trustees Association (BCSTA) president Michael McEvoy is speaking out against using money earmarked for schools to pay for carbon emission reduction projects in the private sector.
McEvoy said schools are denied access to money contributed to the Pacific Carbon Trust (PCT) for their own carbon emission reduction projects even though they must pay $25 per tonne of emissions to the PCT.
Instead, that money has gone to private infrastructure projects at luxury hotels, resorts and energy corporation Encana, which has swung a deal to sell 84,000 tonnes of carbon offsets to PCT.
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