Timber won’t make dam acceptable
Timber won’t make dam acceptable
A massive timber plantation proposed on the banks of the planned Traveston Crossing dam in southern Queensland will not adequately offset carbon emissions and will only disrupt more landholders, says a group opposed to the dam.
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August 29th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Paul Lucas needs better advisers. People who can add.
If total emissions are 140,000 during construction and then somewhere around 400,000 tonnes every single year after that, the first 10 years adds up to 4 million tonnes.
The 850,000 tonnes that they plan to offset over a period of maybe 30 years will be exceeded by emissions from the dam within its first two years of operation
“The only valid and reasonable offset is to abandon the whole proposal in favour of reliable and less expensive alternatives which would reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions by approximately 800,000 tonnes each year.
Climate change modeling clearly warns that rainfall run off and reduced stream flow will make a rain fed dependent dam unreliable and certainly dry for many years.
By increasing the amount of timber in the catchment, runoff will continue to decrease particularly in times of drought making even less water available for the environmental flows.