Recycling Roadways for Carbon Emission Reductions - Midstate Reclamation and Trucking

Audit Analysis

A VCS road-recycling project (VM0039 v1.1) with VVB-confirmed additionality and no reported reversal events, but weakened by a project-specific baseline, a 0% leakage deduction justified only as 'deemed negligible,' no stated buffer pool, and a three-fold discrepancy between the PDD ex-ante estimate and the verified ERR. Low extraction confidence and multiple corrective action requests further erode confidence in the data record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠PDD ex-ante estimate of 28,915 tCO2e is roughly one-third of the 89,606 tCO2e verified in the monitoring report; if the PDD figure is the lifetime estimate, the project delivered ~9.4× the pro-rata expectation for the elapsed period, raising over-crediting concerns
• ⚠Leakage deduction of 0% justified solely as 'deemed negligible' with no quantified analysis, in a construction project where displaced material or alternative road-building routes could generate leakage
• ⚠Low extraction confidence indicates at least one key document was poorly readable, reducing reliability of the extracted data
• ⚠Three Corrective Action Requests and eight Clarification Requests raised during verification, including a deviation in lime-emissions calculation

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