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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Well why don't you tell me all the ways in which the oil industry protects the environment? I'm not denying they make efforts, but you seem to be implying expert knowledge on the subject.
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I have already explained my contact with the industry and no, I am not an expert; but I will give you two (one good, one bad) examples from our companys' experience.
These are from a job done on the Beaufort Sea.
Good one:
When equipment (trucks, nodwells, etc) are parked they
must have a large drip pan placed under them "
just in case" they are leaking something. Additionally, any spill amounting to more than 8 ozs. must be reported and reclamation completed.
Bad one:
Workers are not allowed to urinate on the ice because it will end up in the ocean. They must bag it and bring it back to base camp to be disposed of with the camp waste. Now this is where environmentalists have missed the mark. From camp it is trucked (with a huge diesel guzzling tanker) many KM's away to Tuktoyaktuk where it is dumped ..... wait for it..... in the ocean, because they don't have sewage processing plants up there.