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DON'T DO THIS! 
The State of California’s Global Warming Solutions Act’s (AB32)
proposed Mine Methane Capture Protocol (MMCP) [1] 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.
 
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. (A proposed rice methane
capture protocol is also currently under development for future
inclusion in AB32.)

NO TO A832!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!