Renewable Energy Certification

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Renewable Energy Certification
Aboriginal Offset Credits for Land Manager
Baseline Identification Carbon Sinks with
Baseline Monitoring Reporting and Verification
Forest, Soil, Sequestration, Landfill, Oil
Gas  Methodologies Regulation International
Verification International standard 1SO/DIS
14064-3 Specification with Guidance for the
Validation and Verification of Greenhouse Gas
Assertions
Executive Summary Nov 19, 2008   (CONFIDENTIAL
DOCUMENT) Absolutely No Unauthorized Copying or
Transmission by any means Prepared By The GGSSI
Engineering Research Team
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Greenhouse Gas Separation Systems Inc.
First Nations Owned Energy Development Corporation
Specializing in the application of patented
CO2/nitrogen capture technology, sequestration,
and enhanced oil recovery. Initiators of First
Nations/Aboriginal carbon credit trading
association adhering to international
standards. Community based training development
to train Aboriginal environmental monitors.
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY POLICY
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MISSION STATEMENT To provide excellence in the
application of emerging patented  environmental
technologies and natural resource joint venture
development strategies that achieves results and
maximizes value for our clients and partners.
To strive in making a difference locally and
globally in maintaining high standards of
professional integrity and ethics in conducting
responsible operational management services
that are sustainable and respectful to all
cultures.
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY POLICY
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VALUES AND PRINCIPLES Our company is built on
traditional Indigenous values which guides our
decision-making and sets us apart as a
distinguished business entity. Our company
recognizes that sincerity, truthfulness, and
transparency contributes to our credibility and
stability and to the efficiency of business
transactions. Our company believes that our
business behaviour should be based on an ethical
spirit of trust and respect for cultural and
individual differences in the development of
constructive and social relationships with
communities and corporate partners. Our
company encourages open, honest, timely, and
effective communication and appropriate
risk-taking amongst all stakeholders.
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FIRST NATION COMMUNITIES IN CANADA COMMITTED TO
THE TRAINING INITIATIVE
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The Kyoto Protocol
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The United States of America has ratified the
Climate Change Convention and the Desertification
Convention and in spite of its withdrawal from
the Kyoto Protocol its still bound by its
adherence to the Climate Change Convention to
reduce its green house gas emissions.  Both the
USA and Canada has opted to reduce
emissions outside of the Kyoto Protocol which is
still under debate. However the west coast
States are collaborating with British Columbia
to implement actions that will correspond to and
hopefully exceed, the targets and timetables
provided for by the Kyoto Accord. First Nations
and Native American Tribes need to initiate
similar actions as caretakers of Mother Earth.
 
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International Rules
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For Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Defining the
principles, modalities, rules and guidelines for
verification, reporting and accountability UNITED
NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND
DEVELOPMENT Authored by Tom Tietenberg, Michael
Grubb, Axel Michaelowa, Byron Swift and
ZhongXiang Zhang Chapter X CONCLUSIONS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS The Kyoto Protocol The Kyoto
Protocol authorizes four cooperative
implementation mechanisms  bubbles, Emissions
trading, joint implementation and the
CDM. Emissions trading allow trading of assigned
amounts among Annex B Parties. Authorized under
article 17, this provision leaves the crafting of
implementation details to subsequent conferences.
Three distinct trading possibilities emerge from
this and among countries with domestic emissions
trading systems, trading among.
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Baseline Emissions
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Identifying the Source List and Calculating
Baseline Emissions A Baseline is made up of
emissions from individual sources.  Therefore, a
Direct Participant must identify the sources it
is bring into the Scheme (its Source List) before
it can calculate Baseline emissions.  There are
six steps to identifying the Source List, and a
further two steps to calculating the Baseline. 
Direct Participants should keep a written record
of the decisions at each step Management
Control Identify all sources over which it has
management control Sources within a
sector Separate the sources in step one into
their different industrial sectors.  Decide which
sectors will be brought into the Scheme.
Emissions data Identify the subset of the sources
in step two that have verifiable emissions data
for the Baseline period. Eligibility for
entry Identify the subset of the sources in step
3 that are eligible for entry into the Scheme
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Baseline Emissions
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Coverage of greenhouse gasses Identify EITHER
the subset of the sources in step four which emit
carbon dioxide OR make no further changes to the
sources in step four, thereby entering all
greenhouse gasses. Coverage within the
reporting guidelines Identify the subset of the
sources in step five that are covered by the
draft protocols appended to the Reporting
Guidelines.  EITHER decide to exclude some/all
the sources not covered by the draft protocols OR
make no further changes to the sources in step
five, thereby deciding to include these sources.
After taking steps one to six, the Direct
Participant will have completed his Source List.
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Carbon Credit Trading
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What is Carbon Trading?   Carbon Trading is a
market based mechanism for helping mitigate the
increase of CO2 in the atmosphere.  Carbon
trading markets are developed to bring buyers and
sellers of carbon credits together with
standardized rules of trade. Who are potential
buyers for Carbon credits? Any entity, typically
a business, that emits CO2 to the atmosphere may
have an interest or may be required by law to
balance their emissions through mechanism of
C sequestration.  These businesses may include
power generating facilities or factories.  Who
are potential sellers of Carbon credits? 
Entities such as Indian reservations that manage
forest or agricultural land might sell carbon
credits based on the accumulation of carbon in
their forest trees or agricultural soils. 
Similarly, business entities that reduce their
carbon emission may be able to sell their
reductions to other emitters.
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Carbon Credit Trading
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What is a cap and trade program?  A successful
market-based program requires just a few minimum
elements. All of the following are absolutely
essential to an efficient and effective
program A mandatory emissions "cap." This is
a limit on the total tons of emissions that can
be emitted. It provides the standard by which
environmental progress is measured, and it gives
tons traded on the pollution market value if the
tons didnt result in real reductions to the
atmosphere, they dont have any market value.
A fixed number of allowances for each polluting
entity. Each allowance gives the owner the right
to emit one ton of pollution at any time.
Allocation of allowances can occur via a number
of different formulas. Banking and trading. A
source that reduces its emissions below its
allowance level may sell the extra allowances to
another source. A source that finds it more
expensive to reduce emissions below allowable
levels may purchase allowances from another
source. Buyers and sellers may bank any unused
allowances for future use. Clear performance
criteria. At the end of the compliance period
(e.g., one year, five years, etc.), each source
must hold a number of allowances equal to its
tons of emissions for that period, and must have
measured its emissions accurately and reported
them transparently. Flexibility. Sources have
flexibility to decide when, where and how to
reduce emissions.
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Carbon Credit Trading
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Summary An active cap-and-trade market enables
those who can reduce pollution cheaply to earn a
return on their pollution reduction investment by
selling extra allowances. It enables those who
cant reduce pollution as cheaply to purchase
allowances at a lower cost than the cost of
reducing their own emissions. It enables all
participants to meet the total emissions cap
cost-effectively. And it gives all emitters
incentives to innovate to find the least-cost
solutions for total pollution control.
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Flow chart of recommended steps to be taken in
developing and implementing a CO2 capture and
storage project
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First Nations Tree Farms (Afforestation)
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Afforestation is the process of establishing a
forest on land that is not a forest, or has not
been a forest for a long time by planting trees
or their seeds. Tree plantation projects
sequester CO2 through photosynthesis thus
allowing for the creation of carbon credits.
The ability of trees to remove carbon from the
atmosphere, coupled with the potential new value
of carbon, will increase the value of
tree-planting activities in Canada. GGSSI offers
consultation in the process of applying carbon
credit trading and GHG technologies for Tree
Farming and Afforestation Projects.
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CO2 Soil Credits for Low Tillage
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The conversion of land from forested to
agricultural land can have a wide range of
negative effects as far as Greenhouse Gas
emission is concerned. Soil disturbance and
increased rates of decomposition in converted
soils can both lead to emission of carbon to the
atmosphere, with increased soil erosion and
leaching of soil nutrients further reducing the
potential for the area to act as a sink for
carbon (a sink is defined as a process or an
activity that removes a Greenhouse Gas from the
atmosphere).
Principal conservation strategies such as Low
Tillage, is key to better balancing the soil
carbon sink, and perhaps reversing recent trends
of loss of carbon from soils. Farming practices
such as 'no-till' and 'low tillage', whereby
agricultural land is used with a reduction in the
soil disturbance and carbon loss which comes with
ploughing, are becoming more widespread and
remains a key area of reducing Greenhouse Gas
emissions. Carbon offsets with this protocol
arise from the direct and indirect reductions of
Greenhouse Gas emissions through implementing
no-till and Low Tillage systems on agricultural
lands. GGSSI offers consultation in the process
of applying carbon credit trading and GHG
technologies for Low Tillage Projects.
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The GGSSI Solution for Landfill Gas
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Landfill gas is produced when oxygen mixes with
decomposing garbage. This gas is mainly made up
of carbon dioxide and methane. Methane is a
natural gas and an energy source, but is also a
greenhouse gas (GHG). It is flammable and
explosive in certain concentrations, which is why
it needs to be controlled. Landfill gas, a
renewable resource, can be used to generate
electricity or to fuel industries. The methane
produced by Canadian landfill sites contains
enough energy to heat more than 600,000 homes a
year.
The GGSSI Landfill Gas Division offers more than
sixteen years of experience in the design,
construction, operation and financing of landfill
gas plants, collection and flaring networks. It
has developed unique techniques for evaluating,
recovering, managing and utilizing landfill gas
resources. Moreover, it provides assistance in
the registration and Quantification Protocol for
Landfill Gas Capture and Combustion and
accreditation of carbon emission reduction
credits in official records. Traditional
media-based treatment methods fall short in being
able to produce the purity of gas at the
acceptable cost required by most power generation
projects. GGSSI Landfill Gas Treatment Technology
dramatically lowers energy production
costs. Using a new technology, called the SWOP
Process, developed by Paul Tower, this
continuously self-regenerated landfill gas
treatment technology offers a smaller footprint,
lower operating costs, and better gas quality
than competitive methods.
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Canadas Guide for Protocol Developers
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Canadas Offset System will provide offset
credits for eligible project-based greenhouse gas
(GHG) reductions and removals. An offset credit
represents one tonne of GHG emissions reduced or
removed from the atmosphere. Environment Canada
has developed a Guide for Protocol Developers.
The objectives of the Guide are 1. to
provide detailed guidance to Protocol Developers
on how to develop an OSQP for Canadas Offset
System and 2. to describe the role of the
various key players throughout the quantification
protocol development process. A link to this
guide can be found on our web site
http//ggssi.ca/Market.html , then click on the
link Canada's Offset System for Greenhouse Gas
- Guide for Protocol Developers
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Process for First Nations and Aboriginal
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Application including legal land description from
landowners. Assessment of lands to determine
carbon sinks suitability. Classification of
designated lands. - low tillage agricultural
lands - forestry and treed areas - tree
planting areas - grazing and pasture
lands - crop lands - reforestation -
sequestration landfill - other
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documentation in respect to exclusive rights to
international market and trading techniques.
   Registration for exchange on international
emissions trading Markets.   Maintenance and
monitoring scheduling.
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Greenhouse Gas Separation Systems Inc.
Albert E. Cerenzie President and CEO P.O. Box
901, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada T4N 5H3 Tel
403.506.0759 albertggssi_at_shaw.ca Visit our GGSSI
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