Industry Leader Scott Gordon Joins Blue Source as Firm Grows Largest Carbon Offset Credit Portfolio and Develops GHG Emission Reduction Projects
Salt Lake City, Utah, March 29, 2007 – Blue Source, LLC, the leading U.S. aggregator of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction offsets, today announced the appointment of Scott Gordon as vice president of business development based in the company’s Houston office.
With more than 27 years experience in the midstream natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL) business, Gordon will play a key role as Blue Source identifies, develops, or acquires infrastructure projects across the nation that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Gordon will work to develop the company’s physical carbon dioxide business infrastructure, including carbon dioxide supply, transportation, and sequestration projects.
Gordon joins the growing team of industry leaders at Blue Source who work with a variety of leading U.S. companies to recognize the economic and environmentally-responsible advantages of reducing their carbon footprint. As Blue Source continues to expand on its expertise, it is building a symbiotic business relationship between the offsets it creates and the reduction in CO2 vented into the atmosphere.
Before joining Blue Source, Gordon was director of business development and supply for Targa Resources, Inc. Gordon graduated from Texas A&M University in 1979, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering.
“The expertise Scott brings to Blue Source will help us expand our level of growth in identifying new distribution channels and carbon capture projects that create important ghg offsets,” said Bill Townsend, CEO and co-Founder of Blue Source.
As an industry leader in identifying and aggregating ghg emission reductions, Blue Source’s offset portfolio allows businesses such as energy companies, electric utilities, agriculture companies, cement manufacturers and others with significant carbon footprints to meet regulatory obligations and voluntary commitments to reduce carbon dioxide emissions under the various regional protocols in place and under development within the U.S.
About Blue Source, LLC
Blue Source, LLC was founded in 2001 in Salt Lake City and today has offices in Salt Lake, Houston, Raleigh, San Francisco and New York. It works to identify, create, acquire, aggregate and market ghg emission reduction benefits. Blue Source has aggregated and secured under long-term sourcing agreements more than 300 million tons of ghg emission reduction offsets through the year 2019. Blue Source is the sole provider of strictly North American–vintage offsets. After aggregation, Blue Source sells ghg offsets to retail and wholesale buyers and to financial markets leading in the development of new products that manage emissions.
