JGBHimself wrote:
To attempt to blame "environmental" groups for industry NOT adopting technology, when they often have to sue them to even get them to think, or talk, about cleaning up their messes, is disingenuous, at best.
Rather than playing the "blame game" you accuse THEM of always doing, what you, and they, ought to be doing is giving credit to business entities that ARE trying, and often doing, the correct/wisest thing.
For example, look at the AD - Anaerobic Digestion systems that clean up ALL of the effluent - air-liquid-solid - from dairy farms.
When an economic disincentive exist AGAINST being clean, it almost never will happen. One problem with "deregulation" is that that often eliminates any and/or all breaks on doing nothing, or even less.

BradMcLellan wrote:
The innovative thinking of the mining and petroleum industries should be commended. However, what most "environmental groups" strive towards is a gradual redirection to cleaner sources of energy. Living in the Edmonton area we are very economically tied to the oil and gas sector and what most people need to understand is that there will be more jobs created in the long run through new clean sources of energy. People and companies need to gradually have a shift in their way of thinking so our grandkids and their kids can have a safer, cleaner and ecologically diverse world to live in.

Stevieboyz wrote:
When you look at their webpage, is this really new?

I think it has been know for some time that hydrogen sulfide either produced biologically through sulfate reducing bacteria (convert sulfate to hydrogen sulfide) or added chemically as sodium sulfide reacts with most metals to form insoluble metal sulfides.

Is this really unique if you have a reacting tank followed by a settling tank where you can collect the sludge followed by a filter press where you can recycle water through formation of a filter cake in a closed loop system? In my opinion I don't think so.