In only their second year, The Well Done Foundation is making incredible progress in plugging orphaned oil wells and stopping excess emissions of methane and hydrogen sulfide. As they plug wells in northern Montana, they’re also expanding across the country to plug, and plan explosive growth in the coming years. I caught up with Stacey Shuck while I was in MT and Curtis Shuck via Zoom a few weeks later to hear where the program is today and how they plan to scale and grow things in the future.
It’s incredibly exciting to me that they are taking action to make a physical difference for the climate and the air we breathe, and they’re doing it #onewellatatime For more information, to donate or volunteer, visit: https://welldonefoundation.com
For more background on how they started, and the well plugging process, watch the Well Done Foundation Series, where I spent a week in Montana documenting the process and hearing from many of the stakeholders. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA…
Chapters: 0:00 Back in the field
2:30 Progress to date
4:04 Branching out to new states
10:34 Education efforts
17:12 New monitoring process
22:03 Flow data visualization
25:29 Pennsylvania challenges
31:06 Louisiana challenges
32:45 Getting the word out
38:00 Goals for 2021 & 2022
40:41 Moving the needle
46:01 Expanding amounts of data
Music: Sabotage
By Jason Donnelly
Published by Music Design by Jason Inc. & BMI