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Subject: Aliso Canyon Climate Impacts Mitigation Program

Comment:
 
On behalf of Sequoia ForestKeeper, I submit the following
recommendations concerning the Aliso Canyon Climate Impacts
Mitigation Program:
 
1: SoCalGasCo/Sempra shall be required to heavily subsidize the
production and installation of anaerobic dairy manure-related gas
biodigesters in California.
 
2: SCGC/Sempra shall be required to heavily subsidize the
widespread construction of freestall dairy barn enclosures with
methane captured and vented to biofilters in California.
 
3: SCGC/Sempra shall be required to heavily subsidize a fund that
will finance livestock herd size reduction in California (in order
to reduce statewide, cattle-related enteric methane emissions) and
enable the meaningful mitigation of environmental justice-related
impacts associated with dairies and gas wells throughout
California. 
 
4: SCGC/Sempra shall be taxed as a mitigation for the Aliso Canyon
natural gas well blowout, with the fine set at the rate of 100% of
the value per ton of CH4 released based upon the social and
environmental cost of one ton of atmospheric methane emission, as
documented in The social cost of atmospheric release, Drew T.
Shindell, Climatic Change (2015) 130:313–326, DOI
10.1007/s10584-015-1343-0, page 319, Table 2, Median total;
declining rate." That value is 4700 dollars per ton, in 2007 U.S.
dollars. 
   
Mr. Ara Marderosian
Sequoia ForestKeeper®
P.O. Box 2134
Kernville, CA 93238
(760) 376-4434
ara@sequoiaforestkeeper.org