Minister of Education forced the Cowichan School Board to hire a full time Energy Manager plus paid out $71,000 to the Pacific Carbon Trust in 2011!!!

Remember, the Cowichan School Board that was fired by George Abbott, Minister of Education, because they refused to balance their budget.....which included having to hire, in 2008, a FULL TIME ...Energy Manager... from the school tax dollars originally destined for teaching our children, to then more monies which were diverted to corporations ........ via the Carbon Trust....which is all explained.....sort of....... in the Carbon Neutral Action...Reports.

In 2011 the Cowichan School Board became Carbon Neutral by paying out $71,000.00 PLUS HST to the Pacific Carbon Trust.......

Go ahead Dear Readers, take the plunge and click on these links to your Schools, just to see where your property school taxes are going.

Carbon Neutral Action Reports

• Abbotsford (SD34)
• Alberni (SD70)
• Arrow Lakes (SD10)
• Boundary (SD51)
• Bulkley Valley (SD54)
• Burnaby (SD41)
• Campbell River (SD72)
• Cariboo-Chilcotin (SD27)
• Central Coast (SD49)
• Central Okanagan (SD23)
• Chilliwack (SD33)
• Coast Mountains (SD82)
• Comox Valley (SD71)
• Conseil scolaire francophone (SD93)
• Coquitlam (SD43)
• Cowichan Valley (SD79)
• Delta (SD37)
• Fort Nelson (SD81)
• Fraser-Cascade (SD78)
• Gold Trail (SD74)
• Greater Victoria (SD61)
• Gulf Islands (SD64)
• Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlotte (SD50)
• Kamloops/Thompson (SD73)
• Kootenay Lake (SD08)
• Kootenay-Columbia (SD20)
• Langley (SD35)
• Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows (SD42)
• Mission (SD75)
• Nanaimo-Ladysmith (SD68)
• Nechako Lakes (SD91)
• New Westminster (SD40)
• Nicola-Similkameen (SD58)
• Nisga'a (SD92)
• North Okanagan-Shuswap (SD83)
• North Vancouver (SD44)
• Okanagan Similkameen (SD53)
• Okanagan Skaha (SD67)
• Peace River North (SD60)
• Peace River South (SD59)
• Powell River (SD47)
• Prince George (SD57)
• Prince Rupert (SD52)
• Qualicum-Parksville (SD69)
• Quesnel (SD28)
• Revelstoke (SD19)
• Richmond (SD38)
• Rocky Mountain (SD06)
• Saanich (SD63)
• Sea to Sky (SD48)
• Sooke (SD62)
• Southeast Kootenay (SD05)
• Stikine (SD87)
• Sunshine Coast (SD46)
• Surrey (SD36)
• Vancouver (SD39)
• Vancouver Island North (SD85)
• Vancouver Island West (SD84)
• Vernon (SD22)
• West Vancouver (SD45)

Surrey, the largest municipality in British Columbia, in order to become carbon neutral for 2011, the Board of Education purchased carbon offsets for 21,008 tonnes of CO2 from the Pacific Carbon Trust at a total cost of $525,952.25 (excluding HST).    You still had to pay for the HST........


Vancouver,   $458,850!   HST not included

Vancouver Sun wrote this in their August 2, 2012 Editorial:

 Numbers offer more proof Carbon Trust should be shuttered.