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I am writing now because I am very concerned that the carbon offset
protocols under the Air Resources Board's jurisdiction do not
reflect environmentally sustainable practices and that their
drafting has been subject to excessive influence from the same
corporate interests designated as polluters. I have researched this
in depth. Recent proposed protocols include the Mine Methane
Capture protocol and the Rice Cultivation Project protocol. Both of
these were written in tandem with input from "stakeholders,"
meaning some of the same vested industry interests, and both of
them are written for the fossil fuel industry and big agriculture.
Neither of them offers a truly viable alternative option, at a time
when alternatives in both energy and agriculture do exist. Why
aren't the energy offsets being written for solar, wind, and
geothermal development? Why doesn't the rice offset reflect the
environmental developments to protect wetlands or acknowledge the
System of Rice Intensification or the organic/permaculture
movements that have become globally widespread?
	I am attaching a copy of a document that summarizes my research on
the latter offset.