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What is the Environmental Team?
Comprised of 150 globally positioned personnel, they're committed to delivering world class environmental services that reduce liability for the corporation and generate shareholder and community value.
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What is the water or hydrologic cycle?
Around in a cycle it goes, evaporation, condensation, precipitation.
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What is carbon?
One of the four requirements for life - all organic compounds contain it.
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What is a Phase I?
The first step in the due diligence process; a report typically prepared for a real estate holding that identifies the potential or existing environmental contamination liabilities.
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What is Asia-Pacific?
The country of Malaysia, where I grew up, is located within this Technical Advisory region.
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What is OIMS (Operations Integrity Management System)?
A disciplined management framework that establishes common worldwide expectations for addressing risks inherent in our business, and puts in to practice the corporate Safety, Security, Health and Environmental policies.
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What is groundwater?
Comprising only 0.61% of the freshwater on earth, it is found within cracks and spaces of soil, sand, and rocks.
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What are Constituents of Concern? Or Contaminants of Concern
Unleaded gasoline, engine oil, chlorinated solvents, fertilizer, chlorides, emerging chemicals the "COC" of PCOC.
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What is Low Density Residential (single family homes, town homes)
If Continued Petroleum Use (CPU) is at one end of the sensitive receptor spectrum, this land-use description is at the other end.
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What are Unexploded Ordinance or (UXO)?
Several of these World War II-era dangerous artifacts were found during environmental activities in Noroxo, France.
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What is End in Mind?
It involves establishing a strategic vision for success that includes aligning stakeholders and ensuring the final disposition of the project is understood. Stated another way: in Environmental, we begin with the ________
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What is an aquifer?
A reservoir composed of geologic units that are saturated with water and sufficiently permeable to yield water in a usable quantity to wells and springs.
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What is Canada?
The land of maple syrup, loonies and toonies, Tim Hortons, Wayne Gretzky, Alex Trebek, and Doug Blue.
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What is the Vulnerability and Risk tool or V&R?
This OIMS required process provides a qualitative risk assessment score based on site hazards, receptors, probability and consequence of impacts to receptors. High and Medium, or any change, require Technical Advisor endorsement.
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What is 4.6 meters (~5m)?
The recommended screen length (in meters) for a monitoring well, to accommodate seasonal fluctuations in groundwater.
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What is January 1, 2008? (Or 2008)
The date that the global functional organization, which was established to manage and steward all remediation and non-operating site activities was founded.
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What is hydraulic conductivity?
The lower the value, the less permeable the material, and the slower fluid will move through it.
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What are conduits?
Preferential pathways associated with subsurface contaminant releases, often related to storm drains, sanitary sewers, and utilities.
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What is the Path to Closure or PTC?
A globally consistent process that is intended to provide a strategic approach to all direct-managed work projects and is driven by the V&R score, and requires endorsement of internal stakeholders.
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What is 12:45 PM, 7:45 PM, and 4:45 AM?
The time in Calgary, London and Melbourne, when it is 1:45 PM in Houston.
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What is Environmental's Mission?
It is comprised of three components: Protect the environment and safety of employees and communities, Enhance the value of the corporation, and Create opportunities for idled properties.
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What is the hydraulic gradient?
Reflected as a slope in a given direction, a change in head along the ground water flow path; the higher the number, the steeper the flow.
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What are chlorides?
A salty constituent of concern at upstream projects, it is typically present within produced water that is derived from deep geologic units; also, 1 of the 4 Technical Focus Areas.
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What is a Conceptual Site Model or CSM?
Evergreen representation of the physical, chemical and biological processes that control transport, migration and potential impacts of contamination in soil, air, ground water, surface water and/or sediments to human and/or ecological receptors.
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Qu'est-ce que PEAR (la poire!)?
What is PEAR? :)
L'acronyme de: Protéger les personnes, Protéger l'environnement, Protéger les actifs de l'entreprise, Protéger la réputation de l'entreprise.
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