tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post3561429138197595702..comments2024-02-20T16:10:31.948-07:00Comments on First Nerve: As Long as Grass Grow and Wind Blow and the Sky is BlueAvery Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-34589666821967656892012-12-01T23:33:56.524-07:002012-12-01T23:33:56.524-07:00" The oil would just evaporate . . . Oh! . . ..." The oil would just evaporate . . . Oh! . . ."<br /><br />Well, no...<br /><br />Actually the separating pond was used to allow the water and oil to, well, separate. The oil would then be skimmed off and put in the monster storage tank (at the north end of the plant near the propane tanks) for resale.<br /><br />Not to say that it wasn't nasty, it was. But do you have better idea on how to reclaim oil?<br /><br />I no longer work for WEI, by my own choosing. And I was in Japan during the period that this made the news (except for in Japan).<br /><br />So I missed the flareup over the smell, but during my time there (about a year), I never noticed a smell in Mecca and I ate at Garibaldi's just about every day.<br /><br />So don't get me wrong, I don't have a horse in this race. And I no longer have any ties with WEI.<br /><br />And while the management at WEI left a lot to be desired, they were dead serious about (us, at least) not puncturing the liner, creating any smoke (which we achieved with various degrees of success), keeping the dust down, and basically not drawing any attention to the company.<br /><br />The *big* issues while I was there was what to do with that mountain of dirt piled up on the north end of the plant (the hydrocarbon pile). <br /><br />This pile would be prohibitively expensive to treat (we would have to cook the dirt and then run the fumes through a oxidizer). But WEI gets paid on the front end, so they have to take on more dirt to pay for the fuel to treat the existing pile.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com