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ScoredACRCoal Mine MethaneCOLORADO, USRegistry: RegisteredGeneral Methodologyv2.1

Elk Creek Permit Area Abandoned Mine Project

Developer: Hubbard Creek Coal Gas LLC

ACR-367 ↗

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#406of 533 in Methane#1122of 1661 in United States#595of 934 in American Carbon Registry (ACR)

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 4.2 / 10
Integrity 🔒 Transparency 🔒 Claim Safety 🔒 Documentation 🔒
Dimension scores are locked — the faint arcs are empty tracks, not zero scores.

Scale 0–10 · method weights: integrity 35% · transparency 25% · claim safety 25% · documentation 15%.

Scored2026-09-12medium confidenceLatest verified monitoring: 2022-12-31

evidence:19/19registry documents analyzed · 4red flags

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Analysis

The Elk Creek CMM project is operational under ACR with a reputable VVB (SCS Global) and no material findings, but the documents reviewed are heavily incomplete: additionality verification, leakage treatment, baseline method, and safeguards are all absent from the available data. A genuine contradiction in the claimed ERR within the same monitoring report, combined with low extraction confidence, undermines confidence in the credit figures. The project delivered roughly 10–16% of its pro-rata expectation for the elapsed period, which is conservative for claim safety but raises questions about the original ex-ante estimate.

Red Flags

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Findings

Risk Indicators

Additionality

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Leakage

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Safeguards

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Evidence

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Eligibility & market

What can you claim with this credit?

Four checks buyers ask about, from the registry and the Integrity Council (ICVCM).

  • Airlines (CORSIA)

    No CORSIA label on the registry

    Not usable for airlines' CORSIA obligations.

    Source: registry label

  • Integrity label (ICVCM CCP)

    Methodology under ICVCM assessmentACR Capturing and Destroying Methane from Coal

    The Integrity Council has not decided on this methodology yet.

    Source: ICVCM assessment

  • Removal or reduction

    Emission reduction or avoidance

    Prevents or reduces emissions — fits contribution claims, not SBTi neutralisation.

    Source: project sector

  • Paris Agreement (Article 6)

    No Article 6 authorization

    No corresponding adjustment: the host country can also count this reduction towards its own target.

    Source: registry label

Information only, from public sources. Claim rules (CORSIA, SBTi, EU rules on green claims) change: check them before making a public claim. Since 27 September 2026, EU consumer rules do not allow “climate neutral” product claims based on offsets.

Registry labels last checked:2026-09-27

Credit Vintages Exhausted

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2016
230,84800
2017
189,55000
2018
114,27900
2019
94,21700
2020
75,72300
2022
23,34700
2023
30,94600
2024
58,54400
2025
45,46700
2026
61,08100
Total924,00200

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