A documentary
Hazard Below
Under farmland, gardens and forest floor, millions of old oil and gas wells stand open. Nobody ever closed them. The film shows where they came from, what they do — and how they get sealed.
What is down there
Nobody closed the door on the way out.
When an operator walks away, the well stays. Steel corrodes, cement cracks, and methane finds the gap — decades after the last barrel was sold, in places where no one is looking.
- 3.9million
- abandoned oil and gas wells across the United StatesU.S. EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory
- 25× CO₂
- methane’s warming power over a hundred-year spanZefiro Methane
- 290kilotons
- methane released by abandoned wells in a single yearU.S. EPA, 2018
The film
See what is still leaking.
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Links
- https://zefiromethane.com/
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/zefiro-methane-corp/
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Video chapters
- 00:00:00Intro: The Hidden Hazard Beneath Our Feet
- 00:00:52What This Story Is About
- 00:01:48How Orphan Wells Came to Be
- 00:02:42The Scale: 120,000 Documented, Up to 800,000
- 00:03:09Bradford, Pennsylvania: Meeting Luke Plants
- 00:03:35The Plants & Goodwin Origin Story
- 00:04:33Personal Stakes: Wells on the Family’s Land
- 00:05:26Not Just Methane: Benzene and Carcinogens
- 00:05:53Out on the Property with Steve Plants
- 00:06:43Gas Bubbling Through Water: A Leak Up Close
- 00:08:06Why Nobody Is Left to Pay
- 00:09:00The Second Well: The Pipe Is Gone
- 00:11:16What the Research Shows
- 00:12:09Why Filling the Hole Makes It Worse
- 00:13:58A Mission Rooted in Family History
- 00:15:21Methane: High Blood Pressure vs. Heart Attack
- 00:16:44$4.7 Billion Covers Two Percent
- 00:17:37Inside a Plugging Operation: Pressure and Safety
- 00:19:27The Cement Seal: One Plan per Well
- 00:20:42Recycling the Steel and What It Costs
- 00:21:32Restoring the Land: Native Seed, No Trace Left
- 00:22:01Why Everyone Agrees on This One
- 00:23:49Conclusion: Cleaning Up What Was Left Behind
Host: Lyndsay Malchuk | Guests: Catherine Flax (CEO, Zefiro Methane), Luke Plants (CEO, Plants & Goodwin) | Produced by Apaton Media. Music and graphics licensed via Apaton Finance GmbH.
Covered company
Zefiro Methane Corp. Unit 2630 – 1075 West Georgia Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3C9 Canada
The interview was first published on August 8, 2026 at approximately 09:00am CET.
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