Oregon fire demonstrates limits of carbon offset program

Green Diamond timber company agreed to slow their logging operations in Southern Oregon in return for millions of dollars in payments from Microsoft and other companies seeking to offset their carbon dioxide pollution from fossil fuels. The companies are essentially paying the timber company  to grow more trees on this land. The Bootleg Fire upended the Green Diamond carbon storage plans, burning through nearly 20 percent of the company’s Klamath project lands. Reporter Hal Bernton looked into the viability of carbon offsets in an increasingly fire-prone world. He joins us with the story.

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