If a tree is felled in the forest, how should its emissions be tallied?
It depends on who you ask — and according to a number of environmental groups, the true carbon cost of the forestry industry is being obscured by government accounting.
Last month, the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, an independent government watchdog within the auditor general’s office, bolstered their long-standing argument.
The government “did not provide a full and transparent picture of how Canada’s forests remove carbon from the atmosphere or contribute carbon to it,” said the report from the environment commissioner, referring specifically to the two ministries responsible for
