Project Boundary & Asset Scope

What Is Included — and Explicitly Excluded — From the Project

This page defines the explicit geographic, legal, and asset boundaries of the emissions avoidance project.
Its purpose is interpretive containment: to ensure that no reader infers impacts, claims, or authority beyond what is documented.

Boundaries are a critical control.
Anything outside them is not part of the project.

1. Geographic Boundary

Defined Project Area

The project is geographically limited to the portion of the project located in Los Angeles County, California, USA (onshore) over which Jedon Kotler holds relevant mineral and subsurface rights.

The project boundary:

Is asset-specific
Is legally defined by title and mineral rights documentation
Does not extend to adjacent parcels, fields, or regional basins

There is no implied expansion beyond documented ownership.

2. Asset Scope

Included Assets

The project includes only:

Mineral and subsurface rights controlled by Jedon Kotler
Hydrocarbon reserves associated with those rights
Extraction activities that could occur under those rights absent the project

These assets form the sole basis for:

The baseline scenario
The emissions avoidance calculation

The permanence claim

Explicitly Excluded Assets

The project does not claim responsibility for economy-wide market outcomes or policy-driven changes outside the defined project boundary. However, quantification conservatively accounts for market-mediated leakage using the Prest dynamic formulation, with a leakage rate of 56% applied in the emissions accounting. The project therefore does not claim to control external market behavior; it applies a conservative deduction to avoid overstating net avoided emissions.

3. Legal Boundary

Control-Based Limitation

The project boundary is constrained by legal authority, not physical proximity.

Only activities over which Jedon Kotler has:

Ownership
Legal control
Authority to prohibit extraction

are included.

Activities beyond that control—even if geographically nearby—are excluded.

Baseline emissions reflect the extraction, processing, transport, and end-use pathway that would have occurred absent forbearance. Project emissions are limited to residual site-management emissions, including potential plugged-well methane leakage where applicable.

4. Operational Boundary

Included Activities (Prevented)

The project concerns the prevention of:

Hydrocarbon extraction
Associated direct and indirect emissions that would have resulted from that extraction

No operational activities are performed as part of the project.

Excluded Activities

The project does not involve:

Ongoing operations
Production management
Emissions reduction technologies
Monitoring of third-party behavior

The absence of activity is itself the mechanism of avoidance.

5. Emissions Accounting Boundary

Included Emissions (If Production Occurred)

For accounting purposes, the project considers:

Scope 1 emissions from extraction
Scope 2 emissions from energy use
Scope 3 emissions from processing, transport, and combustion

These are included only to quantify what would have occurred under production.

Excluded Emissions

The project does not account for:

Emissions from other oil fields
Economy-wide demand effects
Price or substitution impacts
Policy-driven changes elsewhere

No system-wide or market-level effects are claimed.

6. Temporal Boundary

The project boundary applies:

From the point at which extraction is prohibited
For the duration that ownership and legal controls remain in effect

The project does not:

Assume future policy changes
Extend claims beyond enforceable control

If boundaries change, claims must be reassessed and disclosed.

7. Why Boundary Discipline Matters

Clear boundaries:

Prevent claim inflation
Reduce misinterpretation
Support audit and regulatory review
Protect against implied responsibility for external outcomes

Boundary discipline is a cornerstone of defensibility.

8. What This Page Does Not Claim

For clarity, this page does not claim that the project:

Affects oil production elsewhere
Influences regional or global markets
Represents a policy instrument
Extends beyond documented ownership

All such interpretations are outside project scope.

Summary