Ben Parfitt is a resource policy analyst with the BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and has been raising questions about the Pacific Carbon Trust since 2011.
Impending Auditor General's critique triggered attack campaign.
by Ben Parfitt
For months, vested interests in government and the private sector have known that a damning report was in the offing by BC’s outgoing Auditor General, John Doyle.
Doyle’s office has been looking into the provincial government’s claims of having achieved “carbon neutrality” by purchasing carbon offsets, through a Crown corporation called Pacific Crown Trust, mainly in the forms of forest acreage and a project to modify natural gas wells. After almost two years, the AG’s office was inching closer to releasing the report.