TerraPass has avoided soil offsets on CCX for the same reasons cited in the article.

One technical correction, though. Additionality requires proof of the expectation of carbon revenues being a decisive factor in the project go ahead, not necessarily receipt of those revenues.

Plenty of dairy farmers have seen other commodity prices rise in the past, and some of them are banking their credits hoping to sell them at a higher price later. That doesn’t affect the fact that without carbon revenues, the projects are poor investments, and that with carbon revenues they are OK. Thats the real mark of financial additionality, not the timing of the receipt of the revenues.

Cheers,

Tom Arnold
Founder
TerraPass

http://www.freecarbonoffsets.com

I was surprised that the EPA has a list of the big buyers of RECs: http://www.epa.gov/grnpower/toplists/top25.htm
Intel now is #1 on the list. The providers are listed as “Austin Energy, PNM, Sterling Planet” and the green power is listed as “Biomass, Geothermal, Solar, Wind”.

Does anyone know more about what they are doing?

I don’t see any mention on your web site of Pyrolysis or Agrichar . Do you have projects in the planning stage on the carbon sequestration front?

The more you learn about this ancient technique of soil restoration the more you’ll see how elegant this solution can be for carbon sequestration, for us all.
Imagine putting the carbon tax funds into the hands of millions of peasant farmers all around the world, building their soil and their net worth at the same time. Please search “AGRICHAR” “BIOCHAR” or
“TERRA PRETA”