Borealis Offsets helped to officially mark Canada Day yesterday by planting the final trees at their afforestation project which is located 20 km northwest of Prince George in British Columbia. The project involved the planting of 120,000 tress of mixed native species planted over 75HA of marginal unused bare land, creating a managed sub-boreal forest ecosystem.
British Columbia’s Minister of Forests, Pat Bell and Deputy Premier, Shirley Bond were on site to not only witness the planting of the final trees at McPhee Creek Afforestation Project but also they took part.
Jeff Calvert, Managing Director Borealis Offsets stated “Afforestation projects such as McPhee Creek are extremely important in helping to sequester carbon. In addition they also provide social and environmental benefits such as restoring native bio-diversity, creating economic opportunity and the maintenance and protection of wildlife habitat and fish bearing systems, which are also highly beneficial”.
Borealis Offsets partners internationally with EcoSecurities, one of the world’s leading companies in the business of sourcing, developing and trading carbon offsets in compliance and voluntary markets to market this afforestation project to potential buyers outside Canada. To find out more information in relation to the McPhee Creek afforestation project visit either http://www.ecosecurities.com/Home/Buying_offsets_via_ProjectNet/Available_VER_projects/default.aspx or http://www.borealisoffsets.com
