May 26, 2010 BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bluesource LLC today announced the sale of carbon offsets to Google Inc. as part of a green energy project that also involves Santee Cooper and Berkeley County Water & Sanitation. The project comprises sustainability efforts from a broad range of companies, including a municipality, the state’s largest electricity producer, […]
December 4, 2009 Private landowners in Pennsylvania, including corporations, will be able to benefit from selling forest carbon offsets after the launch of the Working Woodlands program. The program, a partnership between the Nature Conservancy and Bluesource, will reward landowners for forest conservation by helping package forest carbon offsets together. The program is designed for […]
International food and agribusiness leader J. R. Simplot Company and leading emissions reduction project developer and offset marketer, bluesource LLC, today announced the formation of a strategic alliance to assist American farmers interested in engaging in the carbon economy.
October 12, 2009 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The president of carbon offset developer Bluesource said his company and Goldman Sachs Group have completed a transaction of carbon credits worth $12 million that he called the largest publicly announced U.S. offset deal. Bluesource generated the offsets from U.S.-based projects involving stopping forests from getting cut down, and […]
October 1, 2009 Salt Lake City, UT – Leading emissions reduction project developer and offset marketer Bluesource today announced the listing of the first project under the Climate Action Reserve’s Forest Project Protocol version 3.0. The Alligator River Avoided Conversion Project will permanently preserve a 2,500-acre tract of forest in North Carolina. The project has […]
May 12, 2009 CALGARY, Alberta – Bluesource Canada, a subsidiary of Bluesource LLC, today announced that it was responsible for the registration, on the Alberta Emissions Offset Registry, of 1.11 million tonnes of verified emission offsets by the deadline of March 31, 2009 for the 2008 Alberta Compliance reporting period. This was the first full-year […]
April 25, 2009 Salt Lake City, UT (The Salt Lake Tribune) – Bill Townsend is a brainy, easy-speaking former Louisianan and oilman who founded a couple of companies and spent 16 years in the energy business before migrating to Utah about 20 years ago. Partner Greg Spencer grew up in the Midwest and came to […]
October 27, 2008 Carbon offsets, or activities that reduce the amount of CO2 emitted each y ear, can take on a dizzy ing array of forms, from planting trees to flaring methane. Bluesource, a company that offers technology to offset carbon in the U.S. (by doing things like capturing carbon and storing it), has just […]
January 28, 2008 With dozens of magazine covers and news features, television shows, books, products, feature films, and even a NobelPeace Prize, climate change was undoubtedly the topic of the moment in 2007. As Jon Coifman of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) puts it, in the collective consciousness the environment seems at last to […]
The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), The Climate Group (TCG), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) are pleased to announce that the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) Steering Committee (SC) has completed its work and reached agreement on all components of the VCS at its July 15, 2007 meeting in London.