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TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A conservationist says landowners in eastern Oklahoma could take advantage of a program that allows carbon credits to be purchased from farmers and ranchers in western Oklahoma.
The Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, an Anadarko-based power supply system, has agreed to purchase 8,000 acres in the North Canadian River Watershed. That will help offset the amount of carbon dioxide it produces to power Altus Air Force Base and other cooperative areas.
The executive director of the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts, Clay Pope, says the pilot program could also be implemented in eastern Oklahoma’s Eucha-Spavinaw watershed, which is the source of Tulsa’s drinking water.
Pope says agricultural carbon sequestration has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States by up to 15% each year.
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That’s good news, glad to see the Carbon Credit industry gaining steam!! It should be the norm, why should companies get to pollute and profit from it? Why not force them to pay the full cost of production by paying along the way for their pollution that the goverment will have to clean up eventually? I think this is long overdue in our country, in Europe this is a busy marketplace already, companies are more responsible when they offset their carbon footprint. Consumers need to reward more responsible companies, even if it costs a bit more!
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