Putting By-Product Water On Our Thirsty Land - Benefit #5: Carbon Sequestration

Remember photosynthesis? Sure you do. It’s the process that happens to vegetation when sun and water hit a plant. The plant releases oxygen and – remember what happens next? That’s right, the plants pulls carbon out of the air. Vegetation trades carbon for oxygen.

As we look over the arid West, we don’t have a lot of photosynthesis going on. Any idea why?  That’s right, we don’t have water.

But a major benefit of taking the by-product water, cleaning it to match the soil and applying it to the land with a fail-safe method is that vegetation grows. And where vegetation grows, carbon sequestration happens.

We made a pretty cartoon to help explain. Take a look HERE and lets talk!

BENEFITS

#1 - Untapped Revenue for the State Government

#2 - Increase Soil Health

#3 - Reduced Erosion

#4 - Vegetative Growth – both ag and conservation

#5 - Wildlife Thrives

#6 - Carbon Sequestered

#7 - Flare Gas Put to Use/ Better Air Quality

#8 - Water and Soil Info Closes the Knowledge Gap

#9 - Water Info is Blockchain Traceable with Fail/Safe Method

#10 - Aquifers not drained for energy or agriculture

Putting By-Product Water On Our Thirsty Land - Benefit #5: Wildlife Thrives

Across our arid lands, our wildlife often struggles because of the lack of water. Not that they don’t have streams, rivers, and lakes from which to drink. But what they need is water that’s on the ground, growing vegetation for food and ecosystem. 

The populations of our wildlife can thrive with enough vegetation. 

And that’s where produced/by-product water comes in. It can be cleaned to match the needs of the soil, applied to the ground for vegetative growth. And this  can all be done legally, safely, and cost effectively.

The time has come to stop throwing away our precious water. This explains it HERE.

Let’s talk about it. 

BENEFITS

#1 - Untapped Revenue for the State Government

#2 - Increase Soil Health

#3 - Reduced Erosion

#4 - Vegetative Growth – both ag and conservation

#5 - Wildlife Thrives

#6 - Carbon Sequestered

#7 - Flare Gas Put to Use/ Better Air Quality

#8 - Water and Soil Info Closes the Knowledge Gap

#9 - Water Info is Blockchain Traceable with Fail/Safe Method

#10 - Aquifers not drained for energy or agriculture

Putting By-Product Water On Our Thirsty Land - Benefit #4: Vegetative Growth

When you take produced/by-product water and put it on dry dirt, you get green things growing! 

Agriculturists can use this new growth to increase herds or maintain them during a dry season. The cost of irrigation is prohibitive in some places, so ranchers have to do without. But if we take this water, cleaned to match the soil, then there’s suddenly a new source of water without costly irrigation or draining of aquifer.  

Conservationists can suddenly have the thing they want most – rolling hills of green, instead of mounds of brown. Grasslands are vital to conservation but growing them on arid land is tough. But a new source of water suddenly changes all that.

Learn about putting by-product water to good use HERE.

BENEFITS

#1 - Untapped Revenue for the State Government

#2 - Increase Soil Health

#3 - Reduced Erosion

#4 - Vegetative Growth – both ag and conservation

#5 - Wildlife Thrives

#6 - Carbon Sequestered

#7 - Flare Gas Put to Use/ Better Air Quality

#8 - Water and Soil Info Closes the Knowledge Gap

#9 - Water Info is Blockchain Traceable with Fail/Safe Method

#10 - Aquifers not drained for energy or agriculture

Putting By-Product Water On Our Thirsty Land - Benefit #3: Reduce Erosion

Wind and rain threaten to blow away and wash away our dry, dusty arid topsoil. But if we add water consistently to that soil, then vegetation grows. And vegetation keeps the soil where it’s supposed to be so it won’t blow or wash away. Erosion becomes a thing of the past.

We need our topsoil. Transforming the produced/by-product water into water that’s perfect for the soil not only makes the soil healthier (see Benefit #2), but it keeps the soil right where it belongs: growing things. 

If you need a refresher, take a look HERE.

BENEFITS

#1 - Untapped Revenue for the State Government

#2 - Increase Soil Health

#3 - Reduced Erosion

#4 - Vegetative Growth – both ag and conservation

#5 - Wildlife Thrives

#6 - Carbon Sequestered

#7 - Flare Gas Put to Use/ Better Air Quality

#8 - Water and Soil Info Closes the Knowledge Gap

#9 - Water Info is Blockchain Traceable with Fail/Safe Method

#10 - Aquifers not drained for energy or agriculture

Putting By-Product Water On Our Thirsty Land -- Benefit #2: Increased Soil Health

Some of you city folk may think that dirt and soil are the same thing. Dirt is what you find walking through the open, arid regions of the West. It’s dry. It’s dusty. It’s missing vital nutrients. And we have plenty of it.

Soil, on the other hand, is more often moist. It has rich nutrients where roots can grow and vegetation can thrive. You don’t see much of that in our arid West.

What makes dirt become soil? (Wait for it) Water.

Just adding water onto the ground creates a more healthy soil that is made to help things grow. 

The problem is that we toss away millions of gallons a day of this water here in the West 

The time has come for us to clean this by-product water to match the needs of the soil and then apply it to the ground.

If you don’t know what we’re talking about, go here: https://lnkd.in/ecksPSd

#1 - Untapped Revenue for the State Government

#2 - Increase Soil Health

#3 - Reduced Erosion

#4 - Vegetative Growth – both ag and conservation

#5 - Wildlife Thrives

#6 - Carbon Sequestered

#7 - Flare Gas Put to Use/ Better Air Quality

#8 - Water and Soil Info Closes the Knowledge Gap

#9 - Water Info is Blockchain Traceable with Fail/Safe Method

#10 - Aquifers not drained for energy or agriculture

Putting By-Product Water On Our Thirsty Land: Untapped Revenue

The benefits of putting produced/by-product water onto our land are crazy-numerous.

Sometimes, we even sound like a late night TV ad with “Wait, there’s more!”

So, each day we're posting a new benefit.

Today's Benefit: Untapped Revenue for the State.

When the water – which in Wyoming constitutionally belongs to the State – comes out of the ground as part of drilling, that water can be cleaned and put to beneficial use by applying on the ground. Encore Green Environmental could pay a portion of each barrel of this water to the State as part of its revenue model, increasing new technology use like blockchain.

We'd love to see our schools and communities thrive without raising taxes. So, the time has come to put our by-product water to beneficial use.

If you don’t know what we’re talking about, GO HERE.

Here’s a list of all the benefits:

o Untapped Revenue for the State Government

o Increase Soil Health o Reduced Erosion

o Vegetative Growth – both ag and conservation

o Wildlife Thrives o Carbon Sequestered

o Flare Gas Put to Use/ Better Air Quality

o Water and Soil Info Closes the Knowledge Gap

o Water Info is Blockchain Traceable with Fail/Safe Method

Blockchain: We’re Already Here

This week, we’re all talking about blockchain like it’s a new idea. Yet, at Encore Green Environmental, it’s been the building block of our traceability for land-applying cleaned produced/by-product water and keeping up with energy data points like flare gas and ag data points like beef. 

Sure, the cryptocurrency aspect is intriguing, but let’s not lose sight of the very practical application of blockchain as a way to manage the data required for ag and conservation. Just as blockchain verifies a chain for financial transactions, it also creates a verifiable, traceable chain for our Conservation By-Design™ method of re-purposing produced/by-product water in the oilfield. 

With this CBD method, we use blockchain to track, trace, and make publicly available:

> Soil data before water application

> Water data before cleaning

> Fail-Safe two-step water testing AFTER cleaning but BEFORE land application

> Ongoing monitoring of the water in the soil

> Ongoing monitoring of the soil’s constituency.

Because of blockchain, every piece of this data is verifiably tracked and we make it publicly available at AgWaterSoilSolutions.com.

Want to talk about blockchain? We’re happy to explain it!

Where You Find One Blade of Grass, Leave Two

That’s the working principle behind Conservation By-Design™. One of our rancher partners said it and it immediately resonated with us. You see, our goal is to create a more healthy land. We think that when the oil industry is working on a piece of land, the land should be better for it. Where you find one blade of grass, leave two.

That can be done with the Conservation By-Design™ method, which takes the oilfield produced/by-product water and cleans it to match the needs of the soil. This creates extravagant growth in vegetation. So, in reality, where you find one blade of grass, you can end up finding millions -- once precious water falls on the thirsty land. 

Let’s make things better than we found them. Let’s talk about it. 

We Don’t Dispose of Water – We “Dispose” of It!

Confused? Don’t be. The E&P’s spend a lot of time, effort, and money to dispose of water. Ask them what they need and they say they need to dispose of water. But at Encore Green Environmental, we are the first agricultural midstream company to accomplish the E&P’s real goal – get rid of the water affordably, safely, and legally so they can keep drilling. 

In the past, that was the same as saying you wanted to dispose of the water. Not anymore.

We can “dispose” of your water – that is, we get rid of it for you – but not by sticking it down an injection well. Instead, we put this water to use and land apply it to grow things and create a total ecological solution. So, we “dispose” of it, if you want to call it that. 

Soil health improves. Carbon is sequestered from the air. The landowners have more productive land. Wildlife thrives. The environment gets something more than dry dirt with injection holes filled with produced water. 

And the E&P’s get a better, more affordable solution to their “disposal” problem.

Let us dispose of your problems – give us a call. Be a part of the total ecological solution.

E&P’s Are Cutting Costs – We Have Scissors!

Okay, we really don’t have scissors – but we do have dirt!  Here’s what we mean. There’s real concerns about the rising costs of traditional water disposal, including massive infrastructure spends -- and that’s assuming you can even get an injection disposal permit.

At Encore Green Environmental, we’re the first AGRICULTURAL MIDSTREAM COMPANY. 

That means we will handle the water for you like a typical midstream company, HOWEVER we’re not sticking the produced/by-product water down a well. Instead, we use the patent-pending methodology, Conservation By-Design™ to process the water to match the surrounding soil’s needs and then we land apply the water, creating a total ecological solution with better soil, better wildlife, and better air. 

And here’s the punchline – the costs are better than what you’re paying for traditional disposal. So, you’ll be better stewards of your budget AND better stewards of the land. You’ll be a corporate and environmental hero. 

It’s worth a phone call to find out if it’s a match for you. Give us a call. The only thing you have to lose is higher costs.

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