Global helium shortage

What happened to those schemes from the 1960s, where they were going to extract helium from certain helium-rich natural gas pipelines, and then return the natural gas back to the pipeline? Aren’t there still natural gas wells whose output contains so much helium that the gas won’t burn?

For some reason, this story keeps cropping up on You Tube. Maybe this is where it all went.

Laughed out loud. Thanks.