For years, the smell of gas wafting through the grounds of the Franciscan Village senior housing facility in Cleveland was a joke among its residents, although they did not realize where the odor was coming from. A few months ago they found out. An old gas well left unused since the 1950s had broken its .
A federal program to plug a half-million wells could create as many as 120,000 specialized oil and gas industry jobs https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/report/green-stimulus-oil-and-gas-workers-considering-major-federal-effort-plug-orphaned-and-abandoned, according to 2020 research from Columbia University and Resources for the Future, a think-tank. The Well Done Foundation has already been doing this work for a few years, pioneering a funding approach that uses carbon credits linked to curbing the wells’ methane emissions.