The Associated Press: Carbon credit programs fail without climate [hoax] bill

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A national program that paid farmers millions of dollars for reducing greenhouse gasses has fizzled amid uncertainty about U.S. climate legislation, stopped paying dividends and will no longer taken enrollment after this year, the president of the group running it said.
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But carbon credits that fetched up to $7 a metric ton a few years ago are now nearly worthless, said Robert Carlson, president of the North Dakota Farmers Union. The group has 6 million tons worth of credits that have gone unsold, and while it will continue to try to sell those, no new credits will be issued after this year, Carlson said.
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"These (carbon credit programs) started because there was a presumption there would be a value on carbon and there would be legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gasses," Johnson said. "Carbon really has no value now."

Terry Ulrich, who raises cattle and crops near Ashley in south central North Dakota, said he pocketed about $6,000 during the first three years of the program for employing no-till farming techniques on about 2,000 acres of his land. But it's been about two years since he received a dividend from the program, he said.
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"The contract will be broken now, and we can all do what we want to do," Ulrich said. "But I'll still no-till the land, absolutely. That, I'm sold on."

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