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The State of California’s Global Warming Solutions Act’s proposed
Mine Methane Capture Protocol  has extremely strong potential to
become a major driver of national and international coal mining and
fossil fuel extraction in Indigenous Peoples’ and non-Indigenous
lands, as well as profiteering and increased environmental
degradation. The Protocol purports to be about the environmentally
motivated capture and destruction of methane for offsets.  
However, it actually incentivizes and subsidizes the development of
additional and potentially major coal mining and natural gas
extraction operations, including flaring and burning, in existing
and future coal and trona[2] mine areas. It represents not just
business-as-usual for the fossil fuel industries, but a future
increase in fossil fuel extraction, with expansions in extent,
production, output, and infrastructure, including refineries and
pipelines, together with permits to pollute even more.

Please cancel the proposed Mine Methane Capture Protocol. Offsets
and carbon trading are a false solution to climate change and must
be excluded from California’s Global Warming Solutions Act AB32.
 
Sincerely,

Jeanne Bulla