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Offsets purchased help Oak Bay meet carbon goal

Oak Bay municipality a signatory to the B.C. Climate Action Charter

The District of Oak Bay will buy carbon offsets this year in order to fulfill a pledge it made to the province to be carbon neutral by 2012.

The municipality is a signatory of the B.C. Climate Action Charter, a commitment by local governments to monitor their greenhouse gas emissions and take steps to reduce them.

Of the province’s 188 municipalities, 179 have signed the charter.

In 2008, the province created the Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program, which gives out grants to all the municipalities who signed on to the charter.

The grants offset the carbon taxes incurred by those municipalities.

Last year Oak Bay’s grant was $20,650.

The cost of the carbon offset purchase is estimated at $36,000.