Roy Oldham, leader of TMBC on Carbon Offsetting

This is taken from a part of the 'state of the area address' of the leader of Tameside MBC, Roy Oldham, on 21st November 2006.

Oldham had said in local press that he didn't care if wildlife was affected by the construction of the Longdendale Bypass. TMBC are one of the main advocates for the bypass which will trash a nature reserve, Swallows Wood.

In his speech, he announces that 4,500 trees have already been planted and this would be increased to 10,000 to compensate for the loss of trees when the bypass is built and also to help mitigate the the CO2 increases. He also claims that each tree planted would offset 75kg of CO2 per annum.

This is an example of 'Greenwash'. This figure - for trees to be planted in northern England - is 3.5 times greater than that for trees planted in tropical rainforests.

Putting aside the rather dodgy concept of 'carbon offsetting', it's worth examining Oldham's methodology. Using DEFRA's data to enable CO2 emissions entailed by the bypass to be offset(CO2 collection at a rate of 10 tonnes of CO2 per hectare per year), 1600 hectares of forest would be required (an area roughly the size of a local town, Glossop). With a planting density of 4200 trees per hectare, this would require 6.7 million trees to be planted.

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• carbon
• offsetting
• co2
• swallows
• wood
• longdendale
• mottram
• tintwistle
• hollingworth
• bypass

[2008Sameoldfitup]

It's a con

[eyematopgeeza]

your not funny try finding me where your wife worked last before you got her a cushy job on the council

[eyematopgeeza]

you planted fuck all the taxpayers had them trees planted with their money so shut the fuck up dickhead and use your proper name samuel and stop trying to track me down you have no chance

[eyematopgeeza]

what a shame you got intouch with youtube to stop me posting didnt work did it twat face the only council leader in the country to have a person drive him round why??cause he is a banned driver likes to spend to much taxpayers money getting pissed at his so called meeting s in a pub try phoning his house and the answer phone works harder than him earn some respect you shit head and get off your fat lazy ass think you got me barred think again you twat i am back sye9999 your son is still a puff

[sye9999]

where was you and your promises when alot of people in mottram got their houses knocked down and had to be relocated so the land could be sold to an unspecified superstore you back stabbing council leader

[sye9999]

have you seen his brothers scrufy house opposite the texaco garage on hyde rd with scrap vans in the garden

[sye9999]

this man is a total asshole i live i mottram what has he done for the town-nothing-what does he object to -everything- this man even had security cameras installed on his house st the taxpayers expense he talks utter shite and does nowt i have lived in mottram for over 30yrs and have only ever seen this pratt at evening council meetings gues where? in the pub no prizes for guesing who pays for his beer

[sye9999]

this man is the scourge of mottram he is not only past his sell by date he is tottally out of date

[7yournext7]

That's an insult to arse-holes! LOL

[ToMeToUTube]

I totally agree. Word on the street is that his name and house is going to be removed from the plaque mounted in Mottram.