DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS?

In football, if a guy can carry a ball across a certain chalk line on the grass, we cheer. That’s because we know what a touchdown is. However, we’re not sure that everyone gets what Encore Green having the first-ever permits to land-apply by-product/produced water really means. It means that ranchers can have water. It means oil companies can save money on water “disposal.” It means the soil gets better. It means the air quality improves. It means this produced water isn’t creating seismic activity by injection. It means that in eastern Wyoming there is a total ecological solution.

See, sometimes when that football player carries the ball across that chalk line, it just means a touchdown. But sometimes it means he won the Super Bowl. 

In a few weeks in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming, we’re going to the Super Bowl. Follow along. Watch us run across the chalk line.

Come on out sometime and visit us on-site.  Call and we’ll set up a time, 307.369.4444.

WE’RE NOT SLINKING AROUND IN THE DARK OF NIGHT

You know, when most people conduct a pilot program, they wear dark clothes and stocking caps and tread about like a cat burglar. That’s because you don’t want to tell people what you’re doing in case it doesn’t turn out as expected. But for our Pine Bluffs pilot project to re-purpose by-product/produced water to put on the ground for ag and conservation, we’re carrying the metaphorical equivalent of those road work lights on freeways. 

The reason is that we walk around in the open is that we know that our test will be a success. We will clean this water to meet the regulatory parameters and the needs of the surrounding soil. If the water is the right standard, it goes on the ground. We win. If the water can’t meet those standards, it doesn’t go on the ground. We win. Because our goal is to protect the land.

Come on out sometime and visit us on-site.  Call and we’ll set up a time, 307.369.4444.

WHY WE CAN’T FAIL

You might have seen our posts about our new  project that we’re launching this week in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming.. Here’s the good news about it: We can’t fail. See, when you do a pilot, you have to define your success. We’re going to take by-product/produced water, treat it to match the regulatory guidelines and the needs of the surrounding soil, and after post treatment testing, we’re going to apply the water to the ground for ag and conservation.

Unless we don’t. See, that’s the part many are missing about our test. Our Conservation By-Design™ method has a fail/safe aspect. So, if we clean the water and the results meet the standard, then we will apply it to the ground. IF we clean the water and the results do not meet the standard, then we WON’T apply it to the ground. 

Either way we win. Because our goal is not to dispose of produced water. Our goal is to protect the land. So, in either outcome, the land is protected. Now, don’t get us wrong. We completely believe the test results will greenlight the water on the ground. But even if it doesn’t, we haven’t failed.

Come on out sometime and visit us on-site.  Call and we’ll set up a time, 307.369.4444.

WE NOW BEGIN

Starting this Thursday, July 2nd, at Encore Green Environmental, we will put into action our first project to not just recycle but RE-PURPOSE by-product/produced water. We have investor, permits in hand, technology committed, engineering permits in place – here we go! We’re making history. But where did this come from?

Go back to 1972-73 Edinburgh High School, in Edinburgh, Texas. Mr. Vela, the FFA and Ag Science Teacher handed me an outlined speech about Conservation. I gave it on the 1st level and won, gave it at the district level and won. I gave it at the area level and won. Off to State, now one of the top 10 public speakers in Texas FFA. 

But I worked for Lloyd Bentsen, responsible for load and shipping grain from the field to the port. 100 trucks a day for 30 to 40 days. When I asked for a week off Old Man Lloyd (the Senator’s Dad), he said he would fly me up the night before, and back home the next day. No other choice; we had a grain to haul. (There’s some things  about agriculture others just sometimes can’t understand).

It’s now 1975 or 1977, South Texas is hot, grass is slim and every night I burnt the needles off of prickly pear so the cows have something to eat. Hay is too expensive and the market is too cheap to sell. Agriculture disasters are often created by more than just supply and demand. (There’s some things  about ranching others just sometimes can’t understand).

It’s now 2020 and 48 years later Conservation By-Design™ will not guarantee the technology. Technology will always improve. But our Conservation By-Design™ published patent will guarantee that unsafe water will NOT contaminate the soil. If our pilot doesn’t clean the water to parameters, that’s okay. We will know because of the CBD fail/safe aspect and not put it on the land. We win. Because our goal is to protect the land.

Ranchers, farmers, and landowners are the selected stewards of soil health and climate improvement. 

As the young lady from Sweden said, “How dare you?!’ She is correct in some ways. How dare you stand in the way of Conservation through Conservation By-Design™

Thank you, Mr. Vella, Mr. Bentsen, and TD Jakes for the message this weekend about the power of the ordinary vessel. God will use normal regular folks to take care of our lands.

Where energy, agriculture, and environment come together, “How Dare We” let activists and alarmists get in the way of science and conservation. 

WE CAN FILE “CAP AND TRADE” IN THE “DOESN’T WORK” BASKET

There, we said it.

The Cap and Trade idea was to force you, me, and our businesses to pay a tax to offset our carbon emission.

But…. 1) nobody wants more taxes and 2) there can’t be enough carbon offset projects because of the draconian rules, like land has to be set aside for decades or even a century.

No, just file that one away. However, free enterprise works. There are people who want to help the planet and see that reducing carbon from the air is a good thing. So, we are developing a new free enterprise program that will help Nature clean its air the organic way. 

Let us know if you want to talk about this.

It’s getting exciting around here. 307.369.4444.

GROWING CLEAN AIR – THE AG REVOLUTION IS HERE.

Yep, it’s the next logical step.

Once upon a time, we all were farmers because we had to grow enough for our family to eat. Over time, one farmer could feed their town. Now, a farmer feeds the world.

What’s the next step? The farmer rids the air of carbon.

We all know that more vegetation means more photosynthesis and THAT means more carbon being captured from the air.

But how can we jump start more vegetation? More water for the arid West. And where do we get that water from? Well, not from the sky.

We’re working with the energy industry to clean their by-product/produced water to land apply it. And that brings an unexpected benefit – cleaner air. It takes everybody working together to pull it off.

You want in? Give us a call. 307.369.4444

IN OUR POLARIZED, CRAZY WORLD, HERE’S WHO WE’RE SIDING WITH: THE LAND

We aren’t casting our lot with liberals or conservatives, this group or that. We all know that the land and taking care of it is radically relevant.

Politics loves to get in the middle of our conversations and decide who’s bad and who’s good. For us it’s easy, the land is good and we must take care of it.

Our whole company is about environmental stewardship. 

Let’s talk about it. 307.369.4444.

THE ETHICS OF WATER – WE LEAD WITH STANDARDS

By that we don’t mean other people don’t. Just that our ethos about water runs deeper than an aquifer. Water is a source of life and we must value it and take care of it. For way too long, we have treated industrial water as a headache to get rid of, instead of an asset to be valued.

We all need water. And if we’re smart about it, we can keep our aquifers –- and our kitchen tap –- full. If we’re shortsighted about it, we will run out of water to drink and to water our crops.

Understanding ethics is never hard. We all know the right thing to do. The hard part is always, will we do it?

We’d love to talk about our Conservation By-Design™ system to transform by-product/produced water into water that’s beneficial for us all.

Give us a call. 307.369.34444

TIME TO RE-TOOL CARBON CAPTURE

The largest industrial re-tooling happened when WWII started and then again when it ended. Right now, we are facing a similar large scale opportunity to re-tool. But instead of re-tooling factories to build tanks, we need to re-tool how we capture carbon from our air. 

1) Cap and trade just hasn’t worked as a way to clean our air. We need free enterprise to drive this, not a mandated tax on consumers and businesses.

2) The key to better air is better soil and photosynthesis is the link between the two. Improve the soil, you improve the air.

3) We need a new source of water for better soil. The good news is that we have a new source of water for western arid lands in the form of by-product/produced water. It’s just ready to be cleaned and land applied. 

4) Carbon capture initiatives need to be about cleaning the air and not exorcising fossil fuel from use. Our world is moving away from fossil fuels. Until that’s reaches critical mass, we STILL must clean up the air. So, carbon capture methods need to at least allow the energy sector to be involved, specifically in providing a new source of water.

 This can work. We’re proving it up with a pilot project in Wyoming right now.

Let’s talk about it 307.369.34444

THE WORD FOR TODAY IS “RE-PURPOSING” – AND WE DON’T MEAN WHAT YOU THINK

When fracking companies speak of re-purposing, they are talking about using the produced water that comes out of the frack to be processed and sent back down the frack. 

We hate to quibble, but that’s just “re-circulating.”  There’s no change of purpose with the water – it’s still just there to aid in fracking. But when we talk about re-purposing that by-product/produced water, we are talking about giving it a new purpose.

Figuratively speaking, we send the water to a Tony Robbins seminar at the Holiday Inn and teach it to fulfill its destiny as water --- to water the land, so things will grow. Using our patent-pending Conservation By-Design™ method, we safely clean the water and put it out on the ground. Sure, if the frack needs water, it can go there first. But, in case you haven’t noticed, we got WAY more water than the frack well needs.

Help us to help you to help water to find its purpose. Give us a call, tell us Tony Robbins sent you. 307.369.4444.