Curtis Shuck spends a lot of time driving around the West, looking to fix century-old environmental mistakes. Last year, he started the Well Done Foundation, a nonprofit that plugs abandoned oil and gas wells. These sites, most of which finished producing oil decades ago, leak methane, a greenhouse gas estimated to have a warming effect at least 25 times that of carbon dioxide. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that, in 2018, abandoned wells released 281 kilotons of methane. You’d have to burn 7.74 billion pounds of coal to produce equivalent emissions.
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Did you know the average person creates 20 metric tons of CO2e every year?
WDF has created Blue Ribbon Climate Benefit Units™ (CBU Blues) to be sold to individuals and companies to offset their carbon footprints. The current offsets were created by the plugging of the Bluhm #007 (API#25-101-10074) orphan well, completed August 24, 2023, in Toole County, MT.
Each unit is $25 and represents 1 metric ton of CO2e.
Let’s start with some basic information so we can keep detailed records on carbon credits sold.
