fitted for this project a lot more than I say the opposite, that they are,” he said. “As a landowner, the worst thing I can do is get a landowner involved in this project that it doesn’t fit or won’t fit down the road. … There’s a lot of discussion around who does this and who pays this and how much does it cost. In this day and age, you absolutely need to hire a carbon offset developer to do one of these projects.”
Dawson echoed Parks’ sentiment that it was essential to hire a project developer in undertaking a carbon offset project.
“It is a very complicated process … and you want to be comfortable with whatever project developer you commit to,” he said. “And in our case, (the company that serves as) our forestry managers are involved in a lot of the inventory and that sort of stuff, and we wanted to be sure that they were up to speed and comfortable with the project. So, those are the sorts of considerations that we needed as an organization to be comfortable with before embarking on the project in the first place.”