Posted on 25/04/08
Tiny beetle tramps over emission targets
VANCOUVER -- For a little bug, the pine beetle has an enormous carbon footprint.The pine beetle, the size of a grain of rice, has already destroyed British Columbia's forests and devastated the logging industry. Now, the insect threatens to upend the province's push to curb its greenhouse gases. At a minimum, it intensifies the uncertainty about how B.C. will slash its emissions by a third by 2020, and what the rules will be for the cap-and-trade system still being hashed out.
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