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This legislation must be stopped.  Representatives of the mining
and fossil fuel industries have contributed heavily to the
protocol's drafting, dictating its terms.

State of California's Global Warming Solutions Act's (AB32) has the
very strong potent 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
is said to be about environmentally motivated methane capture and
destruction for methane 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 in coal and trona mine
areas.  It represents not just business-as-usual for 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 more. 

This hydraulic fracturing on steroids and must NOT pass.