Farmers Selling Carbon Credits

Here's a site I found that links farmers with those who buy carbon credits. Anyone know about this?

http://www.dogwoodcarbon.com/index.htm

I have wondered about it also, but have yet to figure it out.  What agency shows up to see if you actually planted the trees.  What if one blows down or how will anyone know if they are healthy?  What if you sell your property?   

I took a tour of the world's largest wood pellet factory in November. They sell most of what they produce to Europe for 'carbon credit' purposes. The pellets are mixed with coal and burned for electricity. They are audited by several different groups ... they need to show that their wood pellets are being produced in a way that is carbon-neutral, or their product would not be in demand. They have to account for how the wood is grown, shipped, processed, and shipped to the power plants. 

Farmers Union Carbon Credit Program

http://nfu.org/issues/environment/carbon-credits

http://www.carboncredit.ndfu.org/

this last years payment really dropped, it was about a 1/10 of what it was the year before.

We found a book about this "Green Banking", some people are using it to develop undesirable plots into wild life refuges & they said they were getting paid for it by selling carbon credits to large corps, I wonder if they took a hit from the economy too?

I've looked into this several times now. It is basically a scam for the middlemen like Al Gore who are making all the money trading the carbon credits. Frankly, the biggest thing they can do is stop taxing land. Land does not put a burden on society. Open land in particular is sucking up pollution, dust, noise and provides scenery. It should not be taxed. The taxes should be on homes, income and sales. Keep it simple - flat tax it all at 15% and then the government should have to learn to live within its budget. We're supposed to.

Climate Exchange out of business....Al Gore got out and still made 60 million.

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/252703/rip-al-gores-chicago-climate-exchange-has-died-greg-pollowitz


And read this:

http://davegj13.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/the-chicago-climate-exchange-pt-1-an-elitist-redistribution-scam/

The more people open their eyes, the better off we all are.

These are complicated financial scams based on feeling good about the environment.
Once you really dig into it that's all it comes down to. It will make you feel sick basically.

There is very little true integrity left.

I have not heard about that website, but I did hear about one place trying to sell the carbon they were storing and had trouble because they were very small (around 100 acres of forest) compared to most of the places that are generating official credits.  I think the credits are a good idea but it seems to me that it is a new and complicated system with room for refinement (and proper legislation to increase demand for the credits) before being workable on a smaller scale.