The pristine beauty of natural landscape. The liquid wealth below… water, the essence of agriculture, livestock ranches and life itself.
The other liquid wealth below… oil, life blood of our modern industrial and mobile society… the very core of economy and global success.
A conflict… the clash of economies and lifestyles as the pumping and transport of oil intrudes upon the delicate ecosystems of a rich and vibrant agrarian society. Both economies intrinsically linked and intertwined above, and below the soil.
The risk that the petroleum infrastructure and its distressingly negative environmental factors will disrupt, pollute and render unusable the water and soil resources critical to the success and longevity of vibrant ranching communities and irreplaceable nature preserves through aquifer and groundwater contamination and toxic soil and air pollution.
Frustration, on the part of oil companies concerned about profits and keeping the wheels of industry turning.
Frustration, on the part of landowners watching helplessly as two incompatible worlds collide, with their land, livestock and livelihoods at risk of needless destruction, of valuable and essential water resources being permanently fouled and contaminated, of vital ecological and wildlife preserves disfigured and scarred for future generations.
Harmony and peaceful co-existence, a mutually supportive environment that allows both economies and lifestyles to thrive and prosper, even as they share each other’s space. In essence:
• The guaranteed protection of essential underground aquifers against contamination and cross-contamination by wells, pipelines and their supporting infrastructure like cathodic protection and AC mitigation systems
• The protection of the soil and air from polluting oil and toxic fumes unnecessarily produced and let loose into the environment
• Mutual respect that both economies are critical to the well being of our socity and state. That they must co-exist, or risk the extinction of one, with severe and knowable consequences
• The need to pump and move oil to markets using safe and environmentally sustainable methods and technologies that minimize environmental damage and catastrophe
• Advanced technology options that make mutually respectful co-existence possible
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These are, without doubt, an incredibly complex set of issues that combine legal, regulatory, industrial, technological, societal, environmental and individual emotional challenges, all needing to be recognized, reconciled and overcome. And who would willing walk into such a minefield of vested economic interests?
Fortunately, technological advances continue unabated in the areas of materials and systems engineering, advances developed with a keen eye to functional performance and environmental sensitivity. At the forefront of these advances is a small product and engineering company which has pioneered new materials and systems that can alleviate some of the long standing conflicts between landowners and oil and pipeline companies over water resource quality and protection.
SAE Inc. has developed the EnvirAnode cathodic protection system that offers a number of advantages to landowners and pipeline operators alike:
• Cross-contamination and surface contamination of underground aquifers is virtually eliminated by the impermeable characteristics of an EnvirAnode CP installation
• The aquifer protective impermeable characteristics hold over the 40+ year life of the EnvirAnode
• Air pollution caused by CP out-gassing is so significantly reduced in an EnvirAnode CP installation that out-gassing vent pipes are not required
• Soil pollution is virtually eliminated in critical AC mitigation, CP and pipeline electrical protection systems through the use of SAE’s environmentally neutral Conducrete product
• At the same time, pipeline operators now have access to the high performance, long-life EnvirAnode impressed current CP solution designed to safely extend pipeline infrastructure life expectancy, and that is approved by regulatory agencies and ideal for use where deep anode bed CP installations are required in environmentally and aquifer sensitive areas
It’s not a perfect world, but we’re moving closer. Please give us a call for more details on our advanced, environmentally sensitive products that can protect your long term investment in resources essential to your economic and social well-being.
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