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To the California Air Resources Board;
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.

Representatives of the mining and fossil fuel industries have
contributed heavily to the protocol’s drafting, dictating its
terms. Carbon traders have also participated in its development.
The Protocol represents the advent of a trading commodity – methane
offsets.
 
Furthermore, the Protocol stands to be a dangerous prototype for
the future development of other methane offsets from the full gamut
of fossil fuels and even agriculture.