If you have been following the media recently on the subject of waste soil disposal in Ontario, you will have heard that many \u2018clean fill\u2019 dump sites are contaminated with poly-aromatic hydrocarbons, heavy metals and petroleum hydrocarbons. The subject has received comment from Ontario\u2019s Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Glen Murray, describing the problem as a \u201cserious issue\u201d at the \u201ctop of environmental and economic concerns\u201d in Ontario.<\/p>\n
Waste drill fluids generated from Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) or oil and gas exploration drilling are rarely given adequate consideration around drilling projects and are often just considered to be a necessary evil. Pound for pound, drill fluid disposal presents more cause for concern than the contaminated soils referenced by Minister Murray. These fluids are often treated like soil, despite their liquid state and their status as liquid waste under environmental statutes and regulations in many North American jurisdictions. Unlike soil, drill fluids have the ability to flow into natural watercourses and are engineered to optimize fluid viscosity resulting in high turbidity and sediment build up in water ways. It\u2019s this turbidity and contamination that puts Ontario\u2019s aquatic life and drinking water at risk.<\/p>\n
What can generators of these liquid drilling wastes do to mitigate these ill-effects? They can move the diversion and treatment of the waste \u201cupstream\u201d so that fluids generated don\u2019t release into water tables and water courses. It costs less to dispose of waste that is reduced upstream and would-be waste materials can also be reused.<\/p>\n
By solidifying drilling fluids at the job site, before they\u2019re loaded into a truck for disposal, the generator has a lower cost transport option (dump truck vs. vacuum truck), a lower cost licensed disposal option (solids vs. liquids) and no risk of fines or remediation for non-compliance.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s time to change our way of thinking. MetaFLO can help you to eliminate the cost and risk of drill fluid disposal. Local service providers are near you. Call or contact us today!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Si vous avez suivi les m\u00e9dias r\u00e9cemment sur le sujet de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets en Ontario, vous aurez entendu dire que de nombreuses d\u00e9charges \"propres\" sont contamin\u00e9es par des hydrocarbures poly-aromatiques, des m\u00e9taux lourds et des hydrocarbures p\u00e9troliers. Le ministre ontarien de l'environnement et du changement climatique, Glen Murray, s'est exprim\u00e9 sur le sujet, qualifiant le probl\u00e8me de \"grave\" en Ontario.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n