Native seedlings offset carbon emissions
Release Date: 13 June 2008
More than 100 Western Power employees and their families will plant 31,000 native seedlings in Waroona this Sunday, 15 June.
These plantings will help to offset 40,000 tonnes of carbon emissions from Western Power’s vehicle fleet, mobile generating facilities, and other business related emissions.
Western Power’s senior environmental officer Ms Olivia Hertsted said the plantings would also have additional environmental benefits.
“The native seedlings will absorb carbon emissions and directly benefit the environment by restoring biodiversity and addressing the problem of land degradation in and around Waroona," Ms Hertsted said.
Western Power has as long history of environmental commitment, planting over 4 million seedlings from 1996 to 2003 as part of their Greening Challenge program which aimed to fight land degradation in the State’s south west.
“Our commitment to the environment is very important. As well as absorbing carbon emissions, we are also actively reducing the carbon footprint of our business,” Ms Hertsted added.
A second corporate planting day is scheduled for the last weekend of July, where Western Power employees and their families will volunteer to plant native seedlings in Kojonup.
Western Power will plant a total of 150,000 native seedlings in 2008 in support of its Carbon Neutral Program.
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