New England WAE Project

Audit Analysis

The New England WAE Project is a very early-stage carbon removal project under the Isometric standard, with a December 2025 verification report revealing eight material findings including uncalibrated flow meters, inadequate feedstock data, and deviations from the PDD. Almost all critical quantitative data—additionality, baseline, permanence, leakage, and ERR figures—is absent from the available documents. Three corrective actions with March 2026 deadlines remain open, and the project has not yet demonstrated a verified, quantified carbon removal claim.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Flow meters at Fall River Wastewater Treatment Plant have not been calibrated in 12 years and may not be calibratable, undermining the reliability of all volumetric measurements
• ⚠CREW did not deduct 5.74 tonnes of CO2 released from calcination of undissolved feedstock (1.5% of net CDR), representing a direct over-crediting error
• ⚠Validation methods do not agree within uncertainty for the Stamford site during project ramp-up, casting doubt on the accuracy of removal estimates
• ⚠No additionality test, baseline method, buffer pool, permanence claim, or leakage treatment is stated in any available document
• ⚠PDD requires refinement to address the shift from manual to continuous dosing, and deviations from the PDD were identified in dosing rate calculations

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