Werner Kurz from the Pacific Forestry Centre is an expert who I go to when I ask about that. There is a carbon lag when you cut down a tree. There's no doubt about that. If the tree is not regenerated, if the forest is not regenerated, that wood is not carbon neutral. If it goes into a building and then it ultimately gets burned, it is not carbon neutral.
Evidence of meeting #74 for Natural Resources in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was building.
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